...Case Analysis: Executive Shirt Company, Inc. Operations Management - I PGP1 Section B Group 4 Group Members AMARENDRA SAHOO PGP2011533 BHAWNA GOKANI PGP2011595 CHATARKAR ANURAG MAHADE PGP2011600 C.LALRUATSANGA 2011FPM06 RUPSA CHAKRAVARTY PGP2011837 SAARANG K. MEHTA PGP2011841 UTKARSH SINGH PGP2011923 Case Analysis: Executive Shirt Company, Inc. Summary: Mr. Dwight Collier, Gen. Manager of Executive Shirt Company (ESC) is planning to introduce customized shirts in his current production facility since they can fetch 75% more price as compared to regular shirts. Currently, ESC is manufacturing 16,000 shirts per month and they plan to manufacture 2,000 customized shirts per month without hampering the current production. The company has 5 departments, namely, Cutting: 1 Machine, 4 Workers Sewing: 48 Machines, 48 Workers Inspection: 4 workers Ironing: 4 Machines, 4 Workers Packaging: 4 workers Indirect Workers (material handlers) : 4 Workers Mr. Collier introduced a change in the manufacturing process by introducing a Laser Cutting Machine for customized shirt. He requested two of his managers, Mike and Ike to devise a production plan to maximize the profit from both the products. The highlights of their plans are Mike’s Plan: To go with one production line manufacturing both the products simultaneously (other than the cutting process) o Eight Batches of regular shirts with 5 shirts each o One batch...
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...Operation Regular Shirts Labor Content (Minutes per shirt) Number of Workers Total Labor Content/day Capacity of shirt production/day Capacity of shirt production/month Used labor capacity (%) No. of labors needed No. of surplus labor Cutting Operation 1 4 1920 1920.0 38400.0 41.7% 2 2 1. Make Collar 3.90 8 3840 984.6 19692.3 81.3% 7 1 2. Make cuffs 2.00 4 1920 960.0 19200.0 83.3% 4 0 3. Make sleeves 0.65 2 960 1476.9 29538.5 54.2% 2 0 4. Make front 2.50 6 2880 1152.0 23040.0 69.4% 5 1 5. Make back 1.70 4 1920 1129.4 22588.2 70.8% 3 1 6. Join shoulders 0.66 2 960 1454.5 29090.9 55.0% 2 0 7. Attach collar 1.65 4 1920 1163.6 23272.7 68.8% 3 1 8. Attach sleeves 1.55 4 1920 1238.7 24774.2 64.6% 3 1 9. Stitch down sleeves 0.65 2 960 1476.9 29538.5 54.2% 2 0 10. Sew side seam 1.80 4 1920 1066.7 21333.3 75.0% 3 1 11. Attach cuffs 1.55 4 1920 1238.7 24774.2 64.6% 3 1 12. Hem bottom 1.70 4 1920 1129.4 22588.2 70.8% 3 1 13. Inspect 1.50 4 1920 1280.0 25600.0 62.5% 3 1 14.Iron 1.95 4 1920 984.6 19692.3 81.3% 4 0 15. Fold, Package 1.75 4 1920 1097.1 21942.9 72.9% 3 1 Regular Shirts Actual Cycle Time(min./shirt)* 0.5 Manufacturing Lead Time(days) 12.25 WIP Inventory(shirts) 11760 Production Capacity(shirts/day)** 960.0 Capacity Utilization 83.3% Direct Labor Content(min./shirt) 26.51 Direct Labor Utilization 69.04% Direct Labor Cost($/shirt)...
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...Why do many cleaners charge more for women’s shirts than for men’s? I think the reason why cleaners might charge more for women’s blouses than men’s shirts might be because they are also passing along the increased cost of production to their customers. I think this would also have to do with the equipment the cleaners might be using. Depending on that equipment, it costs them three and four times the labor expense to properly finish a women’s shirt or blouse when it’s compared to a men’s shirt. The biggest production cost for a cleaner is their labor expense, and money paid to their employees. Most of the labor will go into the “finishing” of the shirt or blouse. The finishing is the combination of machine pressing and hand ironing the garment and most garments to require the combination of both in order to achieve the final results. There are many cleaners that have special machines that can reduce the time and labor needed to finish a shirt compared to a women’s blouse which sometimes requires as much as 100% hand ironing to achieve the final result. Depending on their equipment and the skill of the presser, most cleaners can finish three to four men’s business shirts in the same time it takes to finish one women’s blouse. Why not use the same machines for women’s blouses. The problem is that women’s blouses come in an extremely wide variety and combination of different patterns, fabric types, trims and ornamentation. Plus, these variations can change dramatically from...
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...Drafting pattern for different types of sleeves Steps in drafting tailored sleeves 1.trace the basic pattern of long sleeves with dart. 2. D is the center of B and A. 3. E is the center of A and C. 4. 2 and 4 is the same as B and D. 5. 5 and 3 is the same as E and C. Connect 4 to D to S to E. 6. Mark F1,F2, B2,and B1 7. Cut 4 to D and 5 to E. 8. Close the dart 9. Join B1 and F1 10. Reshape side of B1 by .75 inch. Steps in making Continuous Sleeves 1. Trace the basic pattern 2. A is raising the shoulder by 1cm. Connect shoulder line and neckline. 3. B from A is for front and 8.5 for back 4. C to D is lowering armhole by 4cm. 5. Extend armhole by 4cm and shape. Steps in drafting Short Puff Sleeves 1. Trace foundation sleeve pattern 2. Design slashes starting from the girth going to the top part of the sleeves. 3. Open the slashes and spread them proportionally up to the desire fullness needed. 4. Trace the sleeve with a flared effect. The flare will be in such on way that there is enough fullness necessary to make a puff. Steps in drafting Raglan sleeves 1. Trace front and back basic pattern. 2. Extend shoulder by 18cm and mark A. 3. B from A IS 2.5 cm 4. C is lowering armhole by 1.5 cm. 5. Lower D from C by 4cm. 6. From shoulder, lower by 4cm and mark E, connect E and D. 7. Square outward and mark F 8. G from D is 4cm. 9. H is 2.5 cm from the shoulder. Connect H and D. ...
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...Probability Question 1 The comparison between the bar chart and histogram are bar graphs are normally used to represent the frequency of discrete items. They can be things, like colours, or things with no particular order. But the main thing about it is the items are not grouped, and they are not continuous. Where else for the histogram is mainly used to represent the frequency of a continuous variable like height or weight and anything that has a decimal placing and would not be exact in other words a whole number. An example of both the graphs:- Bar Graph Histogram These 2 graphs both look similar but however, in a histogram the bars must be touching. This is because the data used are number that are grouped and in a continuous range from left to right. But as for the bar graph the x axis would have its individual data like colours shown in the above. Question 2 a) i) The probability of females who enjoys shopping for clothing are 224/ 500 = 0.448. ii) The probability of males who enjoys shopping for clothing are 136/500 = 0.272. iii) The probability of females who wouldn’t enjoy shopping for clothing are 36/500 = 0.072. iv) The probability of males who wouldn’t enjoy shopping for clothing are 104/500 = 0.208. b) P (AᴗB) = P(A)+P(B)-P(AᴖB) P (A|B) = P(AᴖB)P(B) > 0 P (B|A) = PAᴖBPA PAᴖBPB = PAᴖBPA PAPB = 1 P(A) = P(B) P(AᴗB) = 1 P(A)+P(B) = 1 P(B) > 0.25 Question 3 1. Frequency Distribution of Burberry Clothing...
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...Carly Fiorina Presentation Sources 1. In this article, it mentions Fiorina’s recent visit to a Stockton peanut plant where she spoke about creating more job opportunities in the San Joaquin Valley. She also mentions how she will fight to turn on export pumps that shoot water of the Delta. Fiorina blasts her opponent, Boxer, for not being accountable when she said, “the state bleeds jobs.” She also highlights on how President Obama’s federal stimulus plan is ineffective. Many ways to cut back on job loss would be to eliminate taxes for small businesses so they have the chance to grow and eventually provide more jobs. Keith Reid. "Fiorina talks jobs in Stockton. " McClatchy - Tribune Business News 23 October 2010 ABI/INFORM Dateline, ProQuest. Web. 25 Oct. 2010. 2. This is Fiorina’s campaign website and it speaks a lot about the issues she focuses on and the strategies of what she should like to accomplish if elected. This site goes very in depth about all of the issues she is concerned with and also exactly what you can do to donate and help her with her campaign. Carly for California. 10 Mar. 2010. Web. 25 Oct. 2010. 3. In this article, Fiornia speaks about how America was based off of small businesses and if we are trying to create more jobs in our economy right now, we need to help boost the small businesses. She also talked about proposed tax incentives for small businesses and how she doesn’t appreciate the earmarks that “benefit(s) the insiders.” "FIORINA...
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...Public figure Speech Analysis This particular speech was given by Barbara Bush. The speech was presented at “Commencement Address at Wellesley College” at severance green gardens, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts. She was addressing at a private liberal arts college for women in Wellesley, Massachusetts. The speech was delivered on June 1, 1990. The total length of speech was about 11 minutes. Barbara Bush’s commencement address successfully honored and inspired the graduates of Wellesley College. The is an important speech of Barbara Pierce Bush’s “Commencement Address at Wellesley College” speech because she encouraged women to stay true to who they are, enjoy life, and most importantly to cherish their families rather than to focus only on studying and wasting their life's becoming well educated women only, because at the end of the day with family, friends, and children are by far more important than a textbook and a pen. I think that she was little nervous because she was so cautious that don’t miss to think anybody and constantly looking at the piece of paper for this. In the introduction, Barbara Bush successfully grabs the attention of her audience as she sparks interest, honors the occasion, establishes credibility and relates to her audience. I think she very well knew that what kind of the audience, she is going to address and she seems prepared for it as she as written the speech keeping in mind her audience. Barbra bush’s speech made an impact on...
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...After reading Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich and watching the documentary Roger and Me, it’s easy to compare the desperation the people seem to have in both of these circumstances. Barbara Ehrenreich wrote Nickel and Dimed to demonstrate the desperation of the jobs that an unskilled worker has. Millions of Americans work for poverty-level wages, and one day Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that any job equals a better life. But how can anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 to $7 an hour? Erenbeich decided to find out by actually living the life that people would have under these circumstances. She traveled to three different cities in which to work. The first was Florida, the second Maine and the last Minnesota. To make everything realistic she spent only money from her wages and nothing from her savings. While there, she lived in the cheapest housing and accepted work as a waitress, hotel maid, house cleaner, nursing-home aide, and Wal-Mart salesperson. She also found out that even the humblest livelihoods require strenuous mental and physical effort.. In a capitalistic society, where "unskilled workers" struggle to make ends meet, big companies continue to exploit their labor. The idea of reification also plays well into this story, where the amount of money received in wages is not an equal representation of the worth produced by the laborer, and the laborers act as if they...
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...Activity 3 I choose to do the Who are the Amercians exercise for Chapter 9 for this activtiy. Chapter 9 is all about political parties and the people that represent those parties. Our book focuses on 3 main parties all though there are more the most imporant ones are covered here. The book uses a series of charts on page 365 to show us who makes up these parties. The chart breaks it down into these catagories age, gender, race, income, education, and region that they live in. The statistics are quite suprising in some ways. The perecent of black people that are democratic as opposed to republicians is alarming, 86% of black people are democrats only 7% are repubilcan. In fact the only ethnicity that has a higher percentage of reublicans is white. Another interesting stat is that Americans making over 75,000 dollars per year are almost equal in perecentage of republicans to democrats. I would have expected that a significantly larger portion of people in that bracket would be republican. Another interesting statistic i noticed was that the older we get the more likley we are to be republicans. Due to the current eeconomic situation of the country I feal it is more likley that the democratic party will see more growth in the near future. I am a white male and I grew up in a rural small town in the south and i was raised a christian, I currently make less then 20,000 dollars per year, I am working on achieving my college education. The statistics show that i have a pretty high percentage...
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...Lindsey Matthiesen November 3, 2015 Throughout Kingsolver’s novel The Bean Trees, examples are shown of how important the name someone posses is. First, Taylor wants to change her destiny so she changes her name. Second, Esperanza’s name shows the course her life is going to take.An insight on destiny can be whown through a person’s name. Taylor and Esperanza’s struggle with identity shows the importance of naming which proves that destiny is chosen by the name possessed by an individual. When Taylor changes her name she knows she will be changing her destiny, which shows her struggle with identity. In the beginning of The Bean Trees Taylor changes her name from Missy to Taylor. When she leaves Pittman there are two things she states...
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...Book Three • What is the significance of the Kikongo word nommo and its attendant concepts of being and naming? How do the Price sisters’ Christian names and their acquired Kikongo names reflect personalities and behavior? The word nommo means pretty much your name. In the Kikongo, they have named things because that is their name. A further explanation as explained in the book, is “you wouldn’t name a machete a human because if so it might raise up and start dancing around.” Some of the people, for example Rachel, received their name because of their name’s role in the bible. Rachel was one of the first named from creation in the bible like how she is the oldest in the family and first named. Also in many parts of the Bible, Rachel was...
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...The word ‘abandon’ can be defined in Merriam Webster’s Dictionary as “to give up to the control or influence of another person or agent”. Giving up control as the definition states, is an action that can happen two different ways, but both still significantly affect a person. Society tells us that abandonment from significant relationships affect someone’s life negatively in mostly books or stories. Some of this literature includes the sources Into The Wild, “To Build A Fire”, and “Walden” which all challenge this idea. Throughout these pieces of literature the idea of subconscious and conscious abandonment is developed on whether or not it’s someone’s choice. Furthermore these pieces challenge the idea that our choices as a society are natural...
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...The non-fiction book Nickel and Dimed, written by Barbara Ehrenreich, expressed the harsh reality of American poverty from the late 1990s to the early 2000s. The idea had begun as a discussion between her and an editor, who suggested the idea to her around the time that welfare reform was becoming set into place, yet, she was originally unsure, due to the fact that her own parents suffered from actual poverty. Also, she was unaware of whether or not she was capable enough to handle it too, yet she had soon managed to overcome the fear and venture towards the idea. The journalist attempted the life of a minimum-wage worker in order to uncover how these people managed their lives on such miserable accommodations and pay. She established parameters...
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...When my mom was expecting my older brother she was frightened because she felt like she wasn’t ready to be a mom at a young age and my dad felt the same because they were still teenagers trying to figure out their own lives. As the months passed my mom was getting so much help from the community and my dad’s parents so they felt like they had so much supporter that made them feel prepared and ready for what life had in hands for them. Now twenty years later they are living the life they have wanted. The Bean Trees by barbara Kingsolver also deals with having moments of difficulties and drastic changes in life even without you planning those changes but by having those changes you begin to go with the flow in order to continue with your life....
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...Influence On My LIfe One Tree Hill. It has had a major impact on my life. It has showed me different aspects of life. It´s showed me the beautiful things in life that we overlook daily. The bad stuff and the good, that we should appreciate because it's shaped us and our world. It was a Television Show that ran for nine years. One Tree Hill has some amazing quotes that mean something to me. ¨I think we waste our words and our moments and we don´t take the time to say the things that are in our hearts when we have the chance.¨ This quote has changed my life and made me think about what I say does it have a true meaning, and that our time is limited we should take advantage of that. ¨Love means giving chances when there are no more...
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