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    Operations Management: Fujiyama Electronics sample testing

    See Attached file. Fujiyama Electronics, Inc. has been having difficulties with circuit boards purchased from an outside supplier. Unacceptable variability occurs between two drilled holes that are supposed to be 5 cm apart on the circuit boards. Twenty-five samples of four boards each were taken from shipments sent by the su

    Queuing Problems in Operatations Management

    5. The Jackson Machine Company has four cutting tools that need to be refurbished after an average of 30 hours, according to an exponential distribution. The single machine that refurbishes the tools needs 15 hours for each tool on the average, with exponential service times. Please find the following. Please show your work in d

    Virtual temas and face to face teams

    Compare and contrast virtual teams and face-to-face teams by considering the advantages and disadvantages of each. Discuss examples of each type of team from references and your personal experience.

    Operations Management: Network Diagram Questions

    Please make sure to include the decision tree. File is attached. 1. Draw the complete detail of a network diagram corresponding to the following information. a. What is the critical path for this project? b. Suppose activity D can be shortened from four days to one day. Assume all other activity times remain the same.

    Operations Management: purchase a part or produce it, a cost analysis

    Please show ALL work. 1. A manager is trying to decide whether to purchase a certain part or to have it produced internally. Internal production could use either of two processes. One would entail a variable cost of $17 per unit and an annual fixed cost of $200,000; the other would entail a variable cost of $14 per unit and a

    Operations Management: Leaky and the Cat Hotel

    See Attached file 1. Leaky a local retailer of plumbing supplies, faces demand for one of its inventoried items at a constant rate of 30,000 units per year it cost Leaky $10 to process an order to replenish stock and $1 per unit per year to carry the item in stock. Stock is received 4 working days after an order is placed.

    Strategic Management, Research AMD

    Research the AMD Corporation (http://www.AMD.com). After reviewing of all the documents you can find on the web and in libraries, write a 2 to 3 page response to the following questions: 1. What is the most important problem facing the AMD Corporation? 2. What recommendation(s) would you make to the AMD Corporation, and in wh

    informal detailing of grievances

    Write a Memo (Memo 4) to the Administration detailing why having a more "informal" area protected by privacy and worker privileges where employees could air grievances without recourse to formal investigation might work to the advantage of your organization. The task of such an informal detailing of grievances would be to make

    Risk Management topics for a medical facility

    This solution provides the learner with an understanding of issues associated with risk management within a medical facility. In particular, this solution addresses ideas and concepts that would be discussed at an annual risk management meeting and identifies particular risks overlooked by health care managers.

    Process Improvement: Customer Satisfaction and Logistics

    1. A key tenet of open systems theory is that the environments in which organizations operate are not static. Customer needs change, the regulatory and legal environment changes, sources of input and costs change. How should organizations monitor their systems, processes, and methods to continue to insure that they will consiste

    Danger of a manager maintaining too much control over plans and projects

    Can you please help find articles and website links that I can use to answer the question below? 1. What is the danger of a manager maintaining too much control over plans and projects? ? Provide list of articles/website links information Additional Information: Control mechanisms are important to every organization.

    Performance Appraisals - criteria and competencies

    This solution provides the learner with an understanding on the use of performance appraisals within an organization and dicusses the use and importance of criteria and competencies in evaluating employee performance.

    margin of safety measure

    Calculating the margin of safety measure will help a firm answer which of the following questions? Will we break even? Are we using our debt wisely? How much will profits change if sales change? How much profit will we earn? How much revenue can we lose before we drop below the breakeven point

    Information Technology in Business Management: Orbitz

    Scenario: For Your Comfort (FYC), an ergonomic furniture manufacturing company was a dream founded by Ronald J. Dirksen and Richard Woodart in 1947, the year after World War II ended. War veterans were returning home and wanted to lead a life of material comfort; FYC's trademark Easy Couch was a seller! The company expanded

    Assessment of security and patient medical records

    This solution provides the learner with a detailed overview with the ideas, strategies, and recommendations for providing security to patient medical records in a service-related Health Care organization. In particular, this solution provides a discussion on what technology threats might this organization face? What information

    New Employee Training Program Attributes

    Answer the following questions about a new employee training program for a teaching or professor position you selected All the following are the questions that need to be addressed. 1. Needs assessment: (a): What types of issues might indicate a need for training? (b): From what sources would these issues be ide

    Discussing the AMD Corporation

    Please visit: http://www.AMD.com, and start to gain an understanding of the AMD Corporation. After reviewing of all the documents you can find on the web and in libraries, write a response to the following questions: 1. What is the most important problem facing the AMD Corporation? Please explain your reasoning as to why it

    Important information about economic theory

    1. When advertising expenditure is increased, which of the aggregate and average (cost and revenue) curves shift their positions? Explain the direction of the shift. As an industry moves from being a monopoly to a monopolistically competitive one (due to the entry of new competitors as the monopoly's patents expire, for exampl

    Capacity, Constraints and Lean

    Rx's R Us is a mail order dealer of homeopathic medications. It has 6 phone lines for receiving orders. Order takers answer the phones, check that inventory is available, and then prepare "picking tickets" for the warehouse stock pickers. One order may consist of several lines, with a different medication or multiples of medicat

    Understanding business planning

    Smith's Tile & Granite Flooring Company: we install all forms of flooring and work with construction companies in rehabs. The company focuses on working from referrals in the Tri State Area. Most referrals come from builders, Lowes Home Improvements and other home owners. Services include flooring of all types on new constructio

    Motivators, Power and Influence

    1. Motivators Motivators can either be positive (as in using a rewards system) or it can be negative (as in the fear of disciplinary action or being fired). Think back on your experience and write about an example of each you were subjected to. (We're not talking about things you might have observed; what we want to hear

    Research into a Country for Business Expansion

    Select a country that starts with the same letter as the first letter of your last name. As manager of your organization's global operations, you are responsible to research the challenges and opportunities of staffing and managing a diverse workforce in your new location (i.e., a country of your choice other than the U.S.). Pl

    Equality And Equity In Business: Gender, Discrimination

    What policy do you think would promote equality in our business? How do you diagnose what is wrong with contemporary anti-discrimination policies? How do we avoid the side effect of reverse discrimination? Can the inequity between the genders be considered as a universal, and national, case of sexual harassment? How do we pr

    Critical Thinking Pro/Con Debate

    Please help! I need facts and definitions on pro's and con's on Child Protective Services have authority on how parents discipline their children? Please source any inside quotes and refrences APA style for any facts and definitions. Question: Should the Child Protective Services have authority on how parents discipline thei

    Wal-Mart: Public Relations

    Evaluate your current company. How does the company break down their current publics? What are the key messages that your organization want to present to these publics? Are the primary? Secondary? Who are the opponents and uncommitted that need to be reached...or at least neutralized?

    Tools and Techniques for Evaluating a Decision

    What tools and techniques should be used for evaluating a decision? What processes should managers follow to insure that decisions are producing the intended results? What standards would you set for evaluating the outcomes of a decision? How do these tools and techniques equate to increased organizational effectiveness?