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strategies that lend themselves to a JIT-based system, from the perspective of WIP, changeover cost, and process choice. (Points : 25) 1. BSOP 330 Master Planning Week 7 JIT in Services Discussion Question 2 Answer BSOP 330 Master Planning Week 7 Why Lean Discussion Question 1 Answer 2. Profits (Y, in hundreds of thousands of dollars) by the regression equation Y = 6.321 + 0.65X. What is your forecast of profit for a store with sales of $25 million? $65 million? (Points :…

explain the strategies that lend themselves to a JIT-based system, from the perspective of WIP, changeover cost, and process choice. 1. Explain how cellular manufacturing represents a flexible manufacturing system. 2. State the four building blocks of lean operations, and explain how fast and simple are the two common threads that run through them. 3. Elaborate on the statement: “The output of the system cannot exceed the output of the bottleneck…

Obstacles to Implementing Lean In order to effectively improve the application of lean system one must have knowledge of the current flaws. This will allow proper assessments to be conducted and implement tools that will improve the process of the organization. The two structures of the Lean process consist of structure one: Lean Suppliers, Lean Manufacturing, and Lean Procurement. Under the first structure the Lean Suppliers are concerned with executing the customer needs, processing the…

shift (McCann, Hassard, Granter, & Hyde, 2015, p. 1573). The study presented McCann, Hassard, Granter, and Hyde was conducted on the implementation of lean processes in an NHS Foundation Trust hospital. Their report highlighted many conceptualized features of how staff adopted and rejected the new principles of lean processes. They referred to lean as “specifically focusing on the identification and elimination of waste” (McCann et al., 2015, p. 1559). Following such culture shift adoption…

their production process that were inefficient and caused many delays (Black, 2003, p. 326). One of the major problems was machine maintenance. Maintenance on a machine can take some time and is difficult to prevent. Toyota came up with a system for lean manufacturing that eliminates delays in the production process and prevents them from…

Many people and companies are adopting a new way of dealing with inventory and production planning by using a process called just-in-time or JIT production. To get into it a bit and explain exactly what just-in-time means is to keep or have just enough inventory, whether it be finished products or raw materials, on hand and available to comply with how much demand you have for your production process and also the demands of the final customer. Its not to have anything more than that, or anything…

new political changes in both Japan or the United States. Finally, any blockage in raw materials or resources would be a huge obstacle for Under Amour’s production of golf clubs. Lean Management: Lean management puts the customer first. The customer must find value from the collection of the raw material to the sale. “Lean manufacturing is a competitive philosophy adopted by many companies to produce cost effective products and services” ((Allada & Srinivasaraghavan,…

The inner ovals exemplify the heart of the customer and the heart of the company, overlapping to illustrate a mutually positive relationship and trust between the two, as well as forming a ‘T’ shape for Toyota. The outer oval signifies the world embracing Toyota. Each oval made with strokes of different thicknesses hence directing to Japanese calligraphy art and culture. The space, that is in the background (within the logo), is signifies the ‘infinite values’ which Toyota stands for. And they…

W. Edwards Deming Dr. W. Edwards Deming was a world-renowned expert on teaching that higher quality leads to higher productivity and lower costs. Dr. Deming was a trained statistician and an expert on improving the quality of war materials during WWII. He continued this expertise in quality and resource management after war ended, and was invited by the Japanese industrial leaders and engineers to Japan (Institute, 2005). The goal of the Japanese business leaders was to change the perception the…

a. Item I. Appropriate/Inappropriate II. Correct/Incorrect 1 Reduction in assembly technicians Appropriate, as the Westside Division will no longer have to pay these wages. Correct as this is the cost associated with the 40 technicians who will no longer be employed by the Westside Division. 2 Assembly supervisor transferred Inappropriate as the Assembly Supervisor will continue to be employed by the Westside Division for two years. Incorrect, this cost will continue to incur. The amount that…