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    Operations Management Case Study (Mark: 40%)

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    This document provides a case study assignment for a course on operations management. It asks students to write a report on a local company that is familiar to them through work or family. The report should include sections on the company's introduction and history, products, manufacturing processes, location, and facility layout. It also provides four illustrations or examples involving calculations of capacity utilization, factor rating analysis to choose a facility location, determining the best location using load-distance scoring, and calculating the center of gravity to locate a common center for multiple plants.

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    This document provides a case study assignment for a course on operations management. It asks students to write a report on a local company that is familiar to them through work or family. The report should include sections on the company's introduction and history, products, manufacturing processes, location, and facility layout. It also provides four illustrations or examples involving calculations of capacity utilization, factor rating analysis to choose a facility location, determining the best location using load-distance scoring, and calculating the center of gravity to locate a common center for multiple plants.

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    Operations Management

    Case Study (mark: 40%)


    Part I: Write a Report on One Selected Local Company Based Using Following
    Questions.
    Pick a local company (Only Business Company) with which you are familiar either by
    working for it or by a close family member working for it.
    Write a term paper about it with the following sections:
    1. Introduction - Give a brief overview of the company including its product or
    services, location, history.
    2. Product - Describe the product or product mix or service in more detail.
    a. What created the opportunity for company’s product or service?
    b. What issues are involved in the design of company’s product or service?
    Environmental issues, robust design, value analysis, modular, manufacturability, etc.
    c. Where is the product or service in its life cycle?
    3. Process - Give an overview and flow diagram of the process. If your process is very
    complex, give an overview. Point out any bottlenecks in the company’s process.
    4. Location - Explain why the business is located where it is. Discuss issues pertinent to
    its location.
    5. Layout - What type of layout does the company have? What is the rationale behind
    the layout?
    Show a diagram. How can it be improved?
    Part II: Workout
    ILLUSTRATION 1: The design capacity for engine repair in our company is 80 trucks
    per day. The effective capacity is 40 engines per day and the actual output is 36 engines
    per day. Calculate the utilization and efficiency of the operation.
    ILLUSTRATION 2: Let us assume that a new medical facility, Health-care, is to be
    located in Harar. The location factors, factor rating and scores for two potential sites are
    shown in the following table. Which is the best location based on factor rating method?

    1
    S. No. Location Factor Factor Rating
    Rating Location 1 Location 2
    1. Facility utilization 0.3 45 40
    2. Total patient per month 0.1 50 56
    3. Average time per emergency trip 0.2 70 65
    4. Land and construction costs 0.25 60 65
    5. Employee preferences 0.15 80 75

    ILLUSTRATION 3: The new Health-care facility is targeted to serve seven survey tracts in
    East Hararghie zone. The table given below shows the coordinates for the centre of each survey
    tract, along with the projected populations, measured in thousands. Customers will travel from
    the seven survey tract centres to the new facility when they need health-care. Two locations
    being considered for the new facility are at (3.5, 5.5) and (6, 3), which are the centres of survey
    tracts B and D. Details of seven survey tract centres, co-ordinate distances along with the
    population for each centre are given below. If we use the population as the loads and use
    rectilinear distance, which location is better in terms of its total load-distance score?
    S. No. Centre of (X,Y) Population
    survey (000)
    1. A (6, 5.5) 5
    2. B (3.5, 5.5) 15
    3. C (5, 6) 10
    4. D (6, 3) 20
    5. E (8, 10) 3
    6. F (4, 6) 6
    7. G (2, 4) 4

    ILLUSTRATION 4: Assume that XY company plan to select the common center for existing
    seven plants. Base on the information given in the table below, to where the common center to
    locate? (Use Center of gravity).

    2
    S. No. Location of existing Distance Volume
    Plants (miles) (ton)
    1. A 200 5
    2. B 500 3
    3. C 700 5
    4. D 300 3
    5. E 500 7
    6. F 250 5
    7. G 600 4

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