...Case 1: American Connector Company 1. erious is the threat of DJC to American Connector Company? How s Regarding the AC Company, we can see that the market place they have been occupying the last years is changing. As their competitive advantage was the quality and customizable flexibility, and regarding that their finance people is no more letting them to buy the latest production equipment, their position in the market is going to suffer changes. In the long term, they will definitely lose their competitive advantage. On the other hand, both companies are different, and take different shares of the market. Since ACC takes the quality and quality share and DJC takes the mass production and lowcost share. Apparently there is no threat, however there is. This threat is real at the moment that the market suffers any change. If the demand for lowcost products increases and wins positions respect quality and performance, the AC Company will be automatically out. It is important to notice that this may happen even if DJC does not run a new plant in the USA. Considering this, the potential existence of a new plant, specifically focused in lowcost and massproduction performance, in the US market could be destroyer. If the new plant gets to be built, the customers may consider the option of adjust themselves to the new plant connectors, despite of the fact that previously they were continuously demanding new designs. The only way this may happened is in case the ...
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...OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT AMERICAN CONNECTOR COMPANY INTRODUCTION About DJC DJC is easily perceived as the typical Japanese manufacturer when considering their core principles. DJC’s corporate objective was profit maximization. DJC emphasised on high quality products at low production costs and thus creating value for the company. Initially, it followed a strategy of coping American products, which were considered to be the most advanced in the world, but over a period of years realised highly efficient manufacturing is critical for gaining competitive advantage over its competitors and thus developed its RND team to produce quality products at par with American counterparts. Facing huge challenge to maintain its current market share in connector business due to increase in labour cost, raw material cost, rising yen and wide penetration of imported goods, DJC chose to build its new plant in Kawasaki Japan to achieve “the ultimate rationalization of mass production”. The plant was established in 1986 and is designed to produce 800 million connectors per year with the aim of achieving three main goals 1. 100% utilization. 2. 99% yield on raw material. 3. Six sigma policy reducing defects to 1 per million units of output delivering high customer satisfaction. The Kawasaki plant is successfully operated by Kawasaki management by carefully integrating decisions and policies meeting company’s goal and objectives. About American Connector American Connector Company (ACC) and DJC...
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...Manufacturing Strategy Case 1: Case Analysis of American Connector Company Submitted By: Bikramaditya Sharma (2010H149221) American Connector Co. (ACC), a US supplier of electrical components, has been forced to re-evaluate operations at its plant in Sunnyvale, California, in response to the plans of a Japanese competitor (DJC Corp.) to construct a rival plant in the United States. The essential issue at hand is whether American Connector’s customization manufacturing strategy should be modified or replaced to meet the threat posed by DJC Corp.’s low-cost manufacturing approach. The situation is particularly critical as ACC’s Sunnyvale plant has recently been experiencing rising costs and deteriorating product quality. Consequently, the present analysis will examine the manufacturing strategies of American Connector Co. and DJC Corp. from a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) perspective in order to determine the potential impact of JDC’s entry into the US connector market. American Connector Company Mass Customization Manufacturing Strategy • Strengths DJC Corporation Product-Focused Manufacturing Strategy • • • ACC’s Sunnyvale plant produces a large variety (4,500) of connectors. This allows the company to provide just about any kind of connector that a customer could want. Products are customized and stateof-the-art. They also exceed customers’ expectations. Batch processing and automated assembly facilitate production of large quantity...
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...cooQ1 How serious is the threat of DJC to American Connector Company? Answer - The threat of DJC to American Connector Company is very high. Following are the reasons: Ø If DJC sets up manufacturing base in USA, as per the exhibit 7 and exhibit 8 the raw material cost for DJC in USA will drastically reduce. Current Raw material product and packaging cost is 14.89 which will reduce to 8.93 in USA.As the raw material cost is almost half of the total finished goods cost, the raw material cost reduction would be substantial. Cost head | KAWASAKI ($/1000 Units) | PLANT IN USA | Raw material, Product + Packaging | 12.13+2.76=14.89 | 14.89 * 0.6 =8.93 | · Ø As Sunnyvale’s defect rates are at 26000 PPM of production which is relatively high. The Quality control of DJC is process centric where each process is QC monitored unlike in Sunnyvale its end product inspection. The quality losses of DJC and ACC over total production are 0.7% and 1.6%. So, Quality is one grey zone which needs to be addressed by ACC. Ø Work in process inventory cost is very high in case of ACC in comparison to DJC. This in turn is reduces connector output per square foot as extra space is required for WIP and finished goods(15.1 of Kawasaki VS. 10.9 of Sunnyvale). Ø As Kawasaki plant is working for 24hrs/day thus the asset utilisation is maximum and Connector output per employee is very high. (75.4% of Kawasaki VS. 30.2% of Sunnyvale) Ø Due to high number of product variations...
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...“Looks Bleak”, words of Ms. Larsen who is the vice president of operation at American Connector Company. Ms. Larsen said the above mentioned words when she was reading a report on competitors plan as they were thinking of entering the US market of electrical connectors. American market had been selling electrical connector since 1970’s when the US experience rapid growth as firms capacity were building up to meet the growing demand. However, soon by 1980, the market started to go down and since because of the boom in 1970’s there were a lot of suppliers in the market which lead to excess capacity production but less demand which lead to price competition amongst all the companies that had entered the US market since 1970’s. Electrical connector were in so demand in the first few years of its launch but because of very large amount of supply in the market, sales for each company went down by 3.9% and the customers had demanded better quality and lower prices which lead to lower profit at year end. AMP inc. which had the most market share of 16% was the market leader as their sales were over $800 million. American Connector and DJC were however, coming in the second tier of the market as there sales were in between $500 million to $800 million. American Connector company (ACC) was one of the companies that supplied the electrical connectors is the US, however recent news of DJC, a Japanese corporation which is in the same business is looking to expand its production in US which...
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...How to apply a LEM connector update package Overview Apply the LEM data connector update package any time SolarWinds updates a connector you use, usually when Support informs you to do so. SolarWinds automatically updates all of your data connectors any time you perform an appliance upgrade, but you can use stand-alone connector updates from Support as needed to address "Unmatched Data" alerts in your environment. Procedure To apply a LEM connector update package: 1. Prepare the update package: a. Download the Connector Update package here or from the Additional Components page on the SolarWinds Customer Portal. The download is approximately 3 MB. b. Unzip the file. c. Open the SolarWinds-LEM-Connectors folder. d. Copy the LEM folder to the root of a network share. For example: C:\share\LEM\. 2. Connect to your LEM virtual appliance using a virtual console or SSH client. 3. Access the CMC prompt: o Virtual Console: Arrow down to Advanced Configuration, and then press Enter. o SSH Client: Log in using your CMC credentials. 4. At the cmc> prompt, enter manager. 5. At the cmc::cmm# prompt, enter sensortoolupgrade. 6. Press Enter to validate your entry. 7. Enter n to indicate that your update is on the network. 8. Press Enter to validate your entry. 9. Enter the server and share name for the location into which you saved the update package in \\server\share format. 10. Enter y to confirm your entry. 11. Enter the domain and user name for a user that can access the share in domain\user...
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...the middle of the diagram, it has to connect to the first activity (so the lower start point is incorrect) Errors in diagram 2 * The diagram has no start point * “Delivery OK” has an XOR gateway missing after it as multiple connectors can’t exit an activity without a gateway 3. Errors in diagram 3 * The “IN STOCK’ should be an XOR GATEWAY instead of an AND GATEWAY * The connector from “RETREIVE FROM WAREHOUSE” shouldn’t get into the sub-process, it should stay outside the sub-process box * The connector from the XOR GATEWAY after the sub-process should be labelled properly as “SHIPMENT FAILED” and “SHIPMENT COMPLETED” Errors in diagram 4 Errors in diagram 5 * The connector after the XOR GATEWAY has the “ACCTEPTED” label missing * The external connection arrows should be labelled “ACCEPTANCE NOTICE” and “REJECTION NOTICE” Errors in diagram 6 * The “NO” decision out of the “CHECK CUSTOMER ELIGIBILITY” should exit from the XOR GATEWAY and not from the activity icon * The “NO” decision out of the “CHECK CAR AVAILABILITY” should exit from the XOR GATEWAY and not from the activity icon * The XOR GATEWAY after “OK?” should be an AND JOIN, instead of an XOR Errors in diagram 7 * The connector after the “REPAIRED?” AND OR should be labelled NO * “PUT ITEMS BACK ON SHELVES” and “DISPOSE ITEMS” should both be connected to one AND JOIN GATEWAY, eliminating the other. Errors in diagram 8 * The XOR gate after “EVALUATE...
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...SM CONNECTOR 2.5mm pitch/Disconnectable Crimp style wire-to-wire connectors Specifications ––––––––––––––––––– The SM series are 2.5mm pitch, wire-to-wire connectors that perform reliably in high-density, small current applications. • • • • • Current rating: 3A AC, DC max. • Voltage rating: 250V AC, DC max. • Temperature range: -25˚C to +85˚C (including temperature rise in applying electrical current) • Contact resistance: Initial value/10m Ω max. After environmental testing/20m Ω max. • Insulation resistance: 500M Ω min. • Withstanding voltage: 1,500V AC/minute • Applicable wire: AWG #28 to #22 0.08 to 0.33mm2 • Applicable panel thickness: 0.5 to 2.0mm * Compliant with RoHS. * Refer to "General Instruction and Notice when using Terminals and Connectors" at the end of this catalog. * Contact JST for details. Standards –––––––––––––––––––––– 0 Recognized E60389 High contact pressure Highly reliable housing construction Mountable on a variety of panels Arm lock mechanism 1 Certified LR20812 2 R50120150 Assembly layout 2∼12 circuits:8.7 18 circuits:14.5 (22.9) Panel layout 4.0 +0.15 0 Panel thickness (mm) 0.5∼0.9 1.0∼1.5 1.5∼2.0 Circuits Plug housing Model No. Panel hole dimensions (mm) General tolerance 5.15+0.15 0 4.15+0.15 0 1.6 (2 to 12 circuits) +0.15 0 2 B 3 4 7.0 +0.15 0 1.4 (18 circuits) 5 6 10.15 +0.15 0 7.15+0.15 0 7 8 9 10 11 A B +0...
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...available on the expander hardware. Below I have listed each type of port, picture of the port and its definition: * Ethernet is a family of computer networking technologies for local area networks. * IEEE 1394 interface is a serial bus interface standard for high-speed communications and isochronous real-time data transfer. * Parallel port is a type of interface found on computers for connecting peripherals. * PS/2 connector is a 6-pin Mini-DIN connector used for connecting some keyboards and mice to a PC compatible computer system. * Serial port is a serial communication physical interface through which information transfers in or out one bit at a time. * Universal Serial Bus (USB) is an industry standard developed in the mid-1990s that defines the cables, connectors and communications protocols used in a bus for connection, communication, and power supply between computers and electronic devices. * Video Graphics Array (VGA) connector is a three-row 15-pin DE-15 connector. The 15-pin VGA connector is found on many video cards, computer monitors, and high definition television sets. * Digital Visual Interface (DVI) is a video display interface developed by the...
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...Port Expander “Port expanders are devices that allow one port on a computer system to connect to multiple devices. There are two basic forms of port expander: internal and external. An internal expander has a connection inside the computer, while the external connects to the outside the computer through an existing port via USB.”(What Is a Port Expander?) The use of a surge protectors or aka splitters is used to connect multiple devices so that they can get power from the wall outlet in order to work. While on the other hand port expanders get there power from the computer instead from a wall outlet. There are different types of port expanders: Ethernet port expander hardware, FireWire port expander hardware, DB-25 port expander hardware, Serial port expander hardware, USB port expander hardware, VGA port expander hardware, DVI port expander hardware, SCSI port expander hardware, Audio port expander hardware, Video port expander hardware, Microphone port expander hardware, RS-422 port expander hardware, Modbus Serial port hardware, SATA port expander hardware, SAS port expander hardware and SSD port expander hardware. Some port expanders can work on all computers while other port expanders can only work on some computers it is depended on what kind of motherboard that computer is using. “The advantages of using port expanders are that you get more ports to use. SAS expanders take one port and make many out of them. SSD are so much faster, often capable of reading 200MBPS or...
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...Installing Cisco TelePresence System Codec C40 This box contains: • • • • • • • The C40 codec Rack ears Remote control HDMI cable (3 m / 10 ft) Ethernet cable (5 m / 16 ft) Power cable (1.8 m / 6 ft) Batteries LR03 AAA 1.5 V for the remote control Assembling the rack ear profiles Mount the rack ear profiles to the codec. IMPORTANT There should always be a distance of minimum 10 cm / 4 in. free space in front of the codec. 1. Remove the two M3 screws on the left and right side of the codec. Tool: Screwdriver, 2 mm Allen Key 2. Use the same two M3 screws to fasten the rack ear profiles to the codec. Min. 10 cm User guides The user documentation for this product, including compliance and safety information, is available on the Cisco web site. Go to: http://www.cisco.com/go/cseries-docs SAFETY REQUIREMENT Make sure the codec is not mounted with the front side up or down. EMC Class A declaration 声 明 此为A级产品,在生活环境中,该产品可能会造成无线电干扰。在这种 情况下,可能需要用户对其干扰采取切实可行的措施。 WARNING: This is a class A product. In a domestica domestic environment WARNING: This is a class A product. In environment this product may cause radio interference inmay cause the user may be required to take adequate measures. this product which case radio interference in which case the user may be required to take adequate measures. Connecting cables For a basic setup, you should go through these steps: 1. Connect the main camera to the HDMI 1 input using a HDMI to HDMI cable. • For camera...
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...the PC and also troubleshoot the computer in Safe Mode with the display driver disabled (in case the driver is the cause of the problem). VGA History VGA was introduced on IBM's PS/2 line in 1987 and quickly replaced the earlier digital CGA and EGA interfaces, which had lower resolution and fewer colors. In a short time, non-IBM vendors boosted resolution and colors, calling them "Super VGA." IBM later introduced XGA with a 1024x768 resolution, and over the years, numerous resolutions were added that were fractions or multiples of the total number of pixels in VGA and XGA resolutions. See screen resolution and XGA. The VGA Port (Socket) Using D-sub sockets, VGA, serial and game ports were found on the back of early PCs. See D-sub connectors. Screen Resolutions Modern PC display adapters support a variety of SD and HD resolutions. This illustration compares the viewing area for several of...
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...Step 1: Mounting the power supply to the computer case A fairly simple step to get your started. Before messing with the motherboard, RAM, and CPU, I mounted the power supply to the computer case. Simply slide the power supply into the computer from the INSIDE. I’ve heard horror stories of people trying to jam the power supply through the back. Once you get the power supply into the case, the mounting holes should line up like so… Simply tighten down the screws that were provided and TADA, you have taken the first step in building your own computer! Congratulations! Step 2: The Motherboard Adding the processor (CPU) The CPU is considered the “brains” of the computer. This little piece of metal and silicon is involved in 100% of your daily computing activities whether it’s something as simple as clicking your mouse or something as complex as editing the video you just took of a recent vacation. Because of its importance, you should handle this piece with EXTREME care. Once you have located your CPU socket, the area that will house your CPU, you are ready to mount the CPU to the motherboard. Unpackage your CPU and any other parts that came with it (likely a heat sink and maybe some thermal compound). Typically, new CPUs will come with a heat sink and thermal compound applied to it already but if not, you WILL need to apply thermal compound to it. Processors can easily reach 100 degrees Celsius otherwise known as the boiling point for liquids…not a good thing! ...
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...Port Expander A port expander is a hardware device designed to allow a user to utilize more than one device on a single port at one time. For example, the device may allow seven devices to connect to one serial port. Hardware Expander Types: * Ethernet Port Expander Hardware * FireWire Port Expander Hardware * DB-25 Port Expander Hardware * Serial Port Expander Hardware * USB Port Expander Hardware * VGA Port Expander Hardware * DVI Port Expander Hardware * SCSI Port Expander Hardware * Audio Port Expander Hardware * Video Port Expander Hardware * Microphone Port Expander Hardware * RS-422 Port Expander Hardware * Modbus Serial Port Hardware * SATA Port Expander Hardware * SAS Port Expander Hardware * SSD Port Expander Hardware Port expanders are generic devices that can be used with any computer as long as the computer has the port for which you are trying to use and expander for. Now pretty much every computer from PC to MAC has all the same ports on them. It used to be that MAC was the only one using Firewire, but then it became available on the PCs. However, even since it became available on PCs, it has now been mostly phased out. Well, depending on what you are using it for there are different kinds of advantages and disadvantages. If you are using it on a desktop or home computer one of the advantages is the ability to allow more devices of a particular port type to be utilized at the same time. One disadvantage...
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...Arcacia Godfrey 1/19/15 Unit 4 Assignment 1 Port Expanders A Port Expander is a computer hardware that allows more than one device to connect to a single port on a computer. The commodore VIC-20 used a port expander to allow more than one cartridge to be connected to the single ROM cartridge. There are fourteen different types of port available on the expander hardware. * DB-25 Port Expander * Fire wire Port Expander * Serial Port Expander * USB Port Expander * VGA Port Expander * DVI Port Expander * SCSI Port Expander * Audio Port Expander * Video Port Expander * Microphone Port Expander * RS-422 Port Expander * Modbus Port Expander * SATA Port Expander * SAS Port Expander * SSD Port Expander Port Expanders will work for almost any P.C, specific expanders are not made for different PC’s as they are all the same. The advantages of using port expanders are that you can use more ports. SAS port expanders takes a single port and makes many out of them. A single 6GBps port can be expanded so you can connect up to 8 different devices. The Disadvantages of using this are if you used all 8 ports of the 6GBps each device shared this throughout slowing all devices connected this would create a bottleneck effect of all the data and information running through the single port. They are mostly external and require a large power supply creating a strain for a stock supply designed for a specific work load as well as the...
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