CaseStudy
BeckManufacturing
AlBeckpresidentofBeckmanufacturingwantstodeterminethecapacityofhisfacilitywhichproducessteeringgearsforautomanufacturers.Hehasaskedyoutosortthroughthedataanddeterminethecapacityofthesystemandhowthatcapacitymaybeincreased.Theoperationisaproductlayoutthatproduceslargenumbersofnearlyidenticalproducts.Theprocessincludesmillinggrindingboringdrillingandassemblinginthatorder.Eachfinishedproductrequiresoneoperationoneachtypeofmachine.Forexampleeachfinishedpartisprocessedononeofthefivemillingmachinesoneofthesevengrindingmachinesetc.
Thefacilityrunstwo8-hourshiftsperdaywithathirdshiftformaintenance.Theindustrialengineeringdepartmenthasprovidedyouwiththefollowingdataonpresentoperations.Inadditionyouhavebeentoldthatassemblyoperationswhilenotunlimitedcanbeeasilychangedtomeettheneed.
*Drilling 6 2.5 7 are all on one line
Beck Manufacturing and Plant Capacity
Read the Beck Manufacturing case study in Chapter 8 of your text. In a three-page paper address the following:
Your paper should be in paragraph form (avoid the use of bullet points) and supported with the concepts outlined in your text and additional scholarly sources.
Submit your three page paper (not including the title and reference pages). Your paper must be formatted according to APA style.
Assignment 160
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