Littlefield Technologies Game 2 Strategy – Group 28 1. CUSTOMER ORDERS AND ORDERS WAITING FOR MATERIAL: When considering the demand level and changes‚ we would configure a time series of that data using short range forecasting. Time series are important because they are often the drivers of decision models. Trend projection and regression analysis models will be used to forecast the future demand as the growth of the demand increases at a lower level‚ increases to a higher level‚ and then decreases
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Littlefield Simulation II Based on our success in the last Littlefield Simulation‚ we tried to utilize the same strategy as last time. Our goals were to minimize lead time by reducing the amount of jobs in queue and ensuring that we had enough machines at each station to handle the capacity. We wanted to keep the lead time between .5 and 1 day in order to get the maximum amount of revenue per job. We utilized data from the first 50 days and put it in an Excel chart to forecast the demand for the
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Littlefield Labs 1 Capacity Management at Littlefield Labs I. Introduction There are 3 stations in the game called sample preparing‚ testing‚ and centrifuging‚ while there are 4 steps to process the jobs. Before the game started‚ we tried to familiarize with the process of the laboratories and calculating the costs (both fixed and variable costs) based on the information on the sheet given. We did not intend to buy any machines too early‚ as we wanted to see the demand fluctuation and the
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Executive Summary Our team operated and managed the Littlefield Technologies facility over the span of 1268 simulated days. Our team finished the simulation in 3rd place‚ posting $2‚234‚639 in cash at the end of the game. We did intuitive analysis initially and came up the strategy at the beginning of the game. And then we applied the knowledge we learned in the class‚ did process analysis and modified our strategies according to the performance results dynamically. We have reinforced many of the
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primary inputs to focus on: the forecast demand curve (job arrivals‚) machine utilization‚ and queue size prior to each station. Specifically we were looking for upward trends in job arrivals and queue sizes along with utilizations consistently hitting 100%. Upon initial analysis of the first fifty days of operations‚ the team noticed that Station 1 had reached 100% utilization several times between days 40 and 50. This‚ combined with the fact that queues were not growing in front of either Station
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LEAD TIME REDUCTION METHODS Ing. Ivana Simeonovova‚ doc. Ing. Simeon Simeonov‚ CSc. Institute of Production Machines‚ Systems and Robotics Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Brno University of Technology e-mail: y78756@stud.fme.vutbr.cz‚ simeonov@fme.vutbr.cz This paper describes methods for reducing the lead time in manufacturing systems. In general‚ there are many methods for reduction of lead time‚ various methods are described in this article. For many manufacturing enterprises is shortening the
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ELEMENTS 1. STORY/PLOT A 1982 PHILIPPINE DRAMATIC FILM. THE MOVIE “AKO BATCH ‘81” IS ALL ABOUT THE LIVES OF SEVEN NEOPHYTES AS THEY STRIVE TO ENTER A GREEK LETTER FRATERNITY (ALPHA KAPPA OMEGA) THROUGH A DIFFICULT HAZING PROCESS. THE ENTIRE EXPERIENCE IS SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF SID LUCERO –MED STIDENT (MARK GIL)‚ ONE OF THE NEOPHYTES. Directed by: MIKE DE LEON Produced by: MARICHU MACEDA Written by: CLODUALDO DEL MUNDO RACQUEL VILLAVICENCIO MIKE DE LEON
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Ch.E. 421 Problem Set (Batch Drying) 4 Ch.E.a/b 13-15 November 2012 The solution of the problems are to be submitted as a team report at the end of the period. Please include honor code and the individual contribution of each team member. 1. A wet solid is dried from 36% to 8% moisture in 5 hours under constant drying conditions. The critical moisture is 14% and the equilibrium moisture is 4%. Calculate the time needed: a) To dry from 8 to 5.5% moisture b) To dry from 30% to 15% moisture c)
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Stanford University Graduate School of Business September 2007 Littlefield Technologies: Overview Introduction Littlefield Technologies is a job shop which assembles Digital Satellite System receivers. These receivers are assembled from kits of electronic components procured from a single supplier. The assembly process consists of four steps carried out at 3 stations called board stuffing‚ testing and tuning. The first step consists of mounting the components onto PC Boards and soldering
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in a hurry if production processes go out of whack. Batch production refers to a production control method whereby the range of products manufactured in a plant is made in batches. In the past‚ large batches of each product were made to gain efficiencies by reducing the amount of non value adding time spent changing over from one product type to another. However‚ this type of production results in high inventories and excessive lead times. The Toyota Production System was developed to overcome
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