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mately until it can be reworked. Case Study Mexicana Wire Works Ron Garcia felt stood about his first week as a management trainee at Mexicana Wire Winding, Inc. He had not yet devel- oped any technical knowledge about the manufacturing pro ces, but he had toured the entire facility, located in the suburbs of Mexico City, and had met many people in various areas of the operation Mexicana, a subsidiary of Westover Wire Works, a Texas Tirns, a medium sized producer or wire windings used in mak. in electrical transformers Jos Arroyo, the production control manager, described the windings to Garcia as being of stan dardized design. Gurcia's four of the plant laid out by process type (see Figure 7.202, followed the manufacturing sequence for the windings drawing, extrusion, winding, inspection, and ing at 1:00 PM packaging. Aner inspection, cond product is packaged and sent to finished product storage: defective product is stored On March 8, Vivian Espania. Mexicana's general manage stopped by Garcia's office and asked him to attend a staff mees "Let's get started with the business at hand." Vivian opening the meeting. "You all have met Ron Garcia, our de management traince. Ron studied operations management in his MBA program in southern California, so I think he is competens to help us with a problem we have been discussing for a long time without resolution. I'm sure that each of you on my will give Ron your full cooperation." CASE STUDY 289 FIGURE 7.20 Mexicana Wire Ying Inc. O We F Product ET Rewon Department Hong and Storage Packaging Find Product Sios Inspection Selected Operating Data Average output per month - 2,400 units Average machine utilization - 639 Average percentage of production set to rework department = 5 (mostly from Winding Department) Average no. of rejected units waiting towark = $50 (mostly from Winding Department) EMEEN Vivian turned to Jos Arroyo, production manager. "Jos, why don't you describe the problem we are facing "Well." Jos said, "business is very good right now. We are booking more orders than we can fill. We will have some new quipment on line within the next several months, which will take care of our capacity problems, but that won't help us in April. I have located some retired employees who used work in the drawing department, and I am planning to bring them in as temporary employees in April to increase capacity there. Be case we are planning to refinance some of our long-term debt. Vivian wants our profits to look as good as possible in April I'm having a hard time figuring out which orders to run and which to back order so that I can make the bottom line look as pood as possible. Can you help me with this Garcia was surprised and apprehensive to receive such ah important, high-profile assignment so early in his career. Re- covering quickly, he said, "Give me your data and let me work with it for a day or two." April Orders Product W0075C 1.400 units Product W0033C 250 units Product WOODSX 1.510 units Product W0007X 1.1 16 units Nede: Vivian Espaniatus given her word to a key come that we will mature unit of product WOOOT and 15 units of product W007SC for him during April Plant Capacity (Hours) DRAWING EXTRUSION SENTINE 4.000 4.200 2.000 espection capacitystapa sary, male ancheste Bill of Labor (Houstinti PRODUCT DAIMESTELE KAIN W0075C 1.0 1.0 10 WooC 2.0 10 30 00 Woox 0.0 00 W0007X 1.0 0.0 9 999 Standard Cost SELLING IRE PRODUCT MISTERUAL LABOR OVERHEAD $33.00 59.90 523.10 25.00 7.50 17.50 35.00 10.50 34.50 75.00 11.25 6175 Discussion Questions 1. What recommendations should Ros Garcia make, with what justification Provide a detailed analysis with charts graphs, and computer printouts included 2. Discuss the need for temporary workers in the drawing department 3. Discuss the plant layout Suures rues Victor L S Sam Smit. This con materialisted on an added for W6075C 00330 W600SX WOOX $100.00 0.00 130.00 175.00