Production Management Study Questions ESSAY

Production Management Study Questions

COURSE NAME: PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT

The students need to prepare the assignment individually in essay format submitting only one pdf file for all 3 parts.

PART 1:

FLOW CHART EXERCISE (20%):

Go to the next link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2plIal6HmU and draw the flow chart of the process how TOOTHBRUSHES are made.

PART 2:

PRODUCTIVITY AND MEASUREMENT RATIOS (5O% in total – 15% for question 1; 35% for question 2)

1. A gearbox manufacturing company has provided the following data. Compare the labor, raw materials and supplies and total productivity of 1996 and 1997. Provide a conclusion and recommendations.

Output: Sales value of production in dollar ($)

22,000 (in 200) and 35,000 (in 2001)

2000 2001

Inputs: Labor 10,000 15,000

Raw materials and Supplies 8,000 12,500

Capital equipment depreciation 700 1,200

Other 2,200 4,800

2. How can you define the concept of “productivity” in production and operations management? What are the benefits derived from higher productivity? Prove your answer by selecting one company from sweets/bakery industries and explain which techniques does the selected company use to improve productivity.

PART 3:

CONTEXTUALIZED LAYOUT COMPARISON: (30%)

In a magnet factory the boss is considering a reorganisation of the lay-out. She is considering the two proposals below. Which is the best way? Complete the table below and justify your recommendation with the reasons why.

Activity 1= 10 seconds; Activity 2= 25 seconds; Activity 3= 50 seconds;

Activity 4= 45 seconds; Activity 5= 30 seconds; Activity 6= 30 seconds

If you work with only 3 workers, the new lay-out is:

LAY-OUT 1
LAY-OUT 2
1.Productivity
2.Resources needed
3.Bottlenecks
4.Standardization
5.Multitasking
6.Specialization
Recommendations and Justification

Submission: 31st of October 2021 at 23:59 CEST – Via Moodle (Turnitin).

Weight: This task is 30% of your total grade for this subject.

Formalities:

· Wordcount for both assignments: 700 words.

· Cover, Table of Contents, References and Appendix are excluded of the total wordcount.

· Font: Arial 12,5 pts.

· Text alignment: Justified.

· The in-text References and the Bibliography have to be in Harvard’s citation style.

It assesses the following learning outcomes:

· Outcome 1: Understand the production management within operation management.

· Outcome 2: Describe operations processes design and their management to contextualize and improve production performance.

· Outcome 3: Assess lay-out design and evaluate facility location.

Rubrics

	Exceptional 90-100	Good 80-89	Fair 70-79	Marginal fail 60-69
Knowledge & Understanding (25%)	Student demonstrates excellent understanding of key concepts and uses vocabulary in an entirely appropriate manner.	Student demonstrates good understanding of the task and mentions some relevant concepts and demonstrates use of the relevant vocabulary.	Student understands the task and provides minimum theory and/or some use of vocabulary.	Student understands the task and attempts to answer the question but does not mention key concepts or uses minimum amount of relevant vocabulary.
Application (30%)	Student applies fully relevant knowledge from the topics delivered in class.	Student applies mostly relevant knowledge from the topics delivered in class.	Student applies some relevant knowledge from the topics delivered in class. Misunderstanding may be evident.	Student applies little relevant knowledge from the topics delivered in class. Misunderstands are evident.
Critical Thinking (30%)	Student critically assesses in excellent ways, drawing outstanding conclusions from relevant authors.	Student critically assesses in good ways, drawing conclusions from relevant authors and references.	Student provides some insights but stays on the surface of the topic. References may not be relevant.	Student makes little or none critical thinking insights, does not quote appropriate authors, and does not provide valid sources.
Communication (15%)	Student communicates their ideas extremely clearly and concisely, respecting word count, grammar and spellcheck	Student communicates their ideas clearly and concisely, respecting word count, grammar and spellcheck	Student communicates their ideas with some clarity and concision. It may be slightly over or under the wordcount limit. Some misspelling errors may be evident.	Student communicates their ideas in a somewhat unclear and unconcise way. Does not reach or does exceed wordcount excessively and misspelling errors are evident.

Production Management Study Questions ESSAY

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