The Boeing Company is a large aerospace company with operations around the world. In the Philadelphia area,
Question:
The Boeing Company is a large aerospace company with operations around the world. In the Philadelphia area, the company produces two main products: Transport and attack helicopters.
Recently the management of Philadelphia operations informed its employees that their customers love their products however they feel that their prices could be improved as compared to their main competitor. The management of the company thought that if they could improve general processes in their manufacturing arena, then the company could move forward in producing less costly helicopter parts with traditional high-quality products.
Tables below show products, customers want characteristics, main processes and three improvement projects. Use the tables in series below and priorities various improvement projects and answer the following questions.
In the first Table the normalized scores for “Quick Delivery is approximately:
400% | ||
29% | ||
26% | ||
9.7% |
In the second Table, the on-time-deliveries is ______________correlated Material acquisition process
Slightly Correlated | ||
Moderately Correlated | ||
Highly Correlated | ||
Not Correlated |
Due to limited resources the company can initiate only one of the described above projects. Assist the Boeing management in making the correct decision as to which project to initiate.?
Site consolidation | ||
Lean manufacturing | ||
Simple cost cutting | ||
None of the above |
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