MGSC$-5128$ Operations Management $$ Group Term Project

This project allows you to implement operations management concepts and tools learnt in the course.

Projects should study an organization where your team oversees the analysis of the operations practice.

As a team, you are consultants trying to analyze specific issues of the organization and prepare an

analytical report to optimize their operations.

Each team needs to select an organization or define a new one to develop a case study where operations

management concepts will be implemented. The team needs to research the information required to

create the project. For some portions of the project, accurate information may not be available. However,

you can justify information based on assumptions. The assumptions must be coherent with the project

and available data.

The project requires a seven$-$page report $($maximum$)$ that explains the operations management analysis.

That is$,$ the models and techniques implemented in your project. Additionally, the project presentation

will be delivered asynchronously by a YouTube Video. The maximum duration of the presentation is $10$

minutes $($maximum$).$

Project requirements

All projects should contain the implementation of sections A$,$ B$,$ C$,$ D and E$.$

A$.$ Chap. $2$: Strategic planning and productivity

$$ Provide background information $($e$.$g$.,$ mission, vision, competitive advantage, market segment,

strategies, etc.$)$ of the organization $($e$.$g$.,$ furniture factory$)$

$$ Describe the product or service to be analyzed $($e$.$g$.,$ sofas$)$

$$ Describe the production process for the product$/$service

$$ Define which type of productivity would be relevant for the specific product line or service that

you are analyzing $($e$.$g$.,$ labour, machine, material productivity$)$

B$.$ Chap. $5$: Strategic capacity planning

$$ Describe the strategic capacity planning for a new or existing product$/$service$.$

$$ Calculate the capacity requirements

$$ Select one of the following:

$1.$ Find the bottleneck process $($e$.$g$.,$ define tasks for processing the product$/$service$,$ define

workers available, estimate time to perform tasks, calculate capacity and bottleneck$)$

$2.$ Perform a break$-$even analysis for evaluating capacity alternatives $($e$.$g$.,$ new machines$)$

C$.$ Chap. $6$: Facility layout

$$ Describe the type of layout for the production process $($e$.$g$.,$ product layout, functional layout$)$

$($layout drawing is not necessary$)$

$$ Select one of the following:

$1.$ Balance a line of a specific set of workstations in your process $($e$.$g$.,$ define cycle time, define

the precedence network, task times, and allocation of tasks to workstations$)$

$2.$ Design a process layout $($e$.$g$.,$ minimize transportation costs or distances$)$

D$.$ Chap. $10$: Statistical Quality Control

$$ Select a variable or attribute and design a control chart $($e$.$g$.,$ proportion of defectives items

generated by a process$)$

E$.$ Chap. $13$: Aggregate operations planning

$$ Define and justify the aggregate operations planning strategy for a product family $($e$.$g$.,$ chase

demand strategy$)$

$$ Determine the aggregate production plan

using a trial$-$and$-$error procedure

for an automobile industry