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You will create this assignment following the Assignment Detail instructions below.

Review the tutorial How to Submit an Individual Project.

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This Individual Project $($IP$)$ builds upon your work in Units $1,2,$ and $3.$

For guidance with this project, use Chapter $7$ of your textbook, which provides an overview of work design and measurement.

Work Design Analysis

The lean operations system strategy has been in operation for $3$ months at Your Furniture Company. Recently, operations managers have received complaints from the company$$s distribution division that customer orders for dining room tables are delayed due to a backup in the production assembly area. The assembly team consists of $30$ members, with each member assembling a table from start to finish from the cut pieces provided through upstream production.

The operations management team decides to do the following:

Analyze a method to understand how the assembly job is being executed

Apply a work measurement to determine a standard for how long the assembly job should take to execute; this standard time will be used by the operations management team to determine if changes are needed to the current capacity planning for the assembly portion of the production line

For this assignment, address the following:

Introduce the reader to methods analysis and work measurement as related to operations management.

Using the given Dining Table Assembler $($DTA$)$ job design, examine how each step in the methods analysis procedure can be used to improve the efficiency of the assembly operation.

Methods analysis procedure includes the following steps $($Stevenson$,2020)$:

Identify the operation to be studied, and gather all pertinent facts about tools, equipment, materials, and so on$.$

For existing jobs, discuss the job with the operator and supervisor to get their input.

Study and document the present method of a current job using process charts. For new jobs, develop charts based on information about the activities involved.

Analyze the job.

Propose new methods.

Install the new methods.

Follow up the implementation to assure that improvements have been achieved.

Based on the steps that a DTA executes to assemble a dining table:

Formulate a stopwatch time study strategy for the DTA job that the operations management team can use to establish a standard time for the DTA to complete the tasks.

Update the operations management team and chief executive officer $($CEO$)$ regarding whether the assembly time to completion goal is being met.

If the assembly goals are not being met, make efficiency improvement recommendations to management.

DTA job overview: Put together the cut pieces of the table following assembly instructions. These include critical wood parts using nails or glue, constructing frames, and checking for defects$$see the full list of tasks below.Assembly tasks$($DIY network, $2021)$

Build uprightsConnect long supports and legsAttach casters, secure the medium$-$density fiberboard $($MDF$)$Join the $2$ x $8$sAttach the top to the MDFCheck for defects