Manufacturing resource planning

As a chemical engineer for a large chemical manufacturer I developed an excel tool that analyzed sales trends for our products and compared the sales history to trends in customer requests for those products. This tool identified markets and applications where customers were asking for information about products but they were not placing orders. I hypothesized that by analyzing these gaps we could discover when our customers were evaluating our product for a potential new application. This would…

During the Root Beer Simulation, I was assigned the role of the Retailer which means I was in the center of the supply chain. My job was to essentially guess what the customers would need four weeks into the future and order accordingly. Normally, this would be fine, however, in the simulation we did not know the other members of our chain or have any sort of prediction model. Due to the unknown of what the factory, the distributer, and the wholesaler would do this became a quite difficult…

In this essay, I will briefly describe the conditions displayed in sweatshops. Then from the view of Kantian and Utilitarian, I will answer the questions of if manufacturers are wrong to contract from sweatshops and what we as consumers should do about sweatshops. Sweatshops are all around us. Companies like Adidas, victoria’s secret, and forever 21 use child labor and grossly underpay their workers in order to make the garments we wear every day. A sweatshop, by definition, is an…

The Andersons Inc. is a diverse company that focuses on grain originations, processing, and brokering. The company’s headquarters is in Maumee, Ohio. The company started as a small independent grain elevator and prospered into a large U.S. conglomerate. The company holds strong values and beliefs in regards to how business should be conducted. They believe in the free enterprise system, fair competition, and compliance with the law, the incentives of profit and personal gain, and the…

Manufacturers face different issues that affect their productions and supply. Manufacturers face issues such as global market forces, risks, development chain, supply chain and strategies. How are manufacturers able to go through all these issues and still keep up their place? The first issue is global market forces. One of the main global forces that manufacturers have to consider is sustainability and the environment. Many people are now environmental conscience by living sustainable lives.…

glazing products was founded 1826 in England. The company initially was family owned until 1970, when it shares went public on the London Stock Exchange (Pilkington Company, n.d.). In 2006, Nippon Sheet and Glass (NSG) Group, also in the glass manufacturing industry since 1918, purchases Pilkington as a wholly owned subsidiary; therefore, Pilkington and NSG Group are integrated in this report for analysis. Additionally, Pilkington and NSG Group for ease will be identified as the “Group”…

Fourth, a cybersecurity industry should also ask their supplier if they are using in-licenses. There are a variety of programs and services that are given built-in licenses that can be abused by their company employees. It is important for cybersecurity industries to make sure that the supplier monitors these licenses that may be abused by their own employees. Fifth, one final question that a cybersecurity industry should ask when they are communicating with their suppliers is what kind of…

product with the right specification whose outcome and cost is attributed by measurable parameters is known as a manufacturing system (systemdesign, nd). Flexibility, capacity, lead time, efficiency, environment, volume and variety are a few of the various criteria through which the right product specification are successfully achieved ( ). Craft industries where the early manufacturing industries in the early nineteenth century. They were classified as heavy weights, time consuming and…

Devices will be cradled on their respective charges when not in use. 3. Devices will be under precision measurement, calibration and testing every 6 months. Riordan’s current manufacturing process As you can see from the above illustration, Riordan Manufacturing current process for the receiving of raw materials is a manual system, which could cause inaccurate information due to human error. With the slow process of each station information could take days before entering the system…

Food is one of the most important resources on Earth; everyone needs to eat to live. The worldwide need for nutrition creates a massively wealthy industry. Food production is a large scale business, and maximizing profits is the most important element of this industry. Margaret Atwood creates a parallel of this greed in her book Oryx and Crake. The food industry in Oryx and Crake is much more dramatically adulterated: meat and other food products have been mostly replaced with soy, and some…