...Boise Cascade Corporation, Case 5.3 The mill manager of Boise Cascade Corporation seeks to understand how many scaling stations should be open to minimize the wait times for arriving trucks and the ineffectual time of the scalers. The number of trucks arriving during any given hour needs to be determined and the Poisson Probability Distribution has been applied. Having two open scale stations that cover 57.60% of the data would be the best option. Still, having four open scale stations there is a 99.93% chance that zero trucks would have to wait, but there would be a 3.74% chance that a truck will even need the extra station and you would likely be paying scalers for complete downtime. Boise Cascade Corporation | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Mean | 12 | | | | | | | | # of Trucks | | | | | | | | | 0 | 0.000006 | 0.000006 | | | | | | | 1 | 0.000074 | 0.000080 | | | | | | | 2 | 0.000442 | 0.000522 | | Time Window | Minutes | | | | 3 | 0.001770 | 0.002292 | | 7am-8am | 6 | 0.04582 | 4.58% | | 4 | 0.005309 | 0.007600 | | 8am-9am | 12 | 0.57597 | 57.60% | | 5 | 0.012741 | 0.020341 | | 9am-10am | 18 | 0.96258 | 96.26% | 3.74% | 6 | 0.025481 | 0.045822 | | 10am-11am | 24 | 0.99931 | 99.93% | | 7 | 0.043682 | 0.089504 | | 11am-12pm | 30 | 1.00000 | | | 8 | 0.065523 | 0.155028 | | 12pm-1pm | 36 | 1.00000 | | | 9 | 0.087364 | 0.242392 | | 1pm-2pm | 42 | 1.00000 | | | 10 | 0.104837 | 0.347229...
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...5000 | Submitted to: | | Submitted by: | | | | | | | Date of Submission Title of Assignment: Case 5.3 “Boise Cascade Corporation CERTIFICATION OF AUTHORSHIP: I certify that I am the author of this paper and that any assistance I received in its preparation is fully acknowledged and disclosed in the paper. I have also cited any sources from which I used data, ideas or words, either quoted directly or paraphrased. I also certify that this paper was prepared by me specifically for this course. Student's Signature: ______________________________ ***************************************************************** Instructor's Grade on Assignment: Instructor's Comments: Introduction: A mill manager from the Boise Cascade Corporation would like to calculate the number of scaling stations that should be in operation at any given time. The manager wants to minimize the time a truck has to wait, at the same the manager doesn’t want to have scales open unnecessarily, wasting workers time and the company money. Having to many scales open without enough trucks will result in needlessly high cost and wasteful spending, while not having enough scales open will result in trucks having to wait. The manager has to decide the optimal number of scales to open so that the Boise Cascade Corporation runs effectively and efficiently. Boise Cascade Corporation receives lumber mill logs, scales them, and puts them in a log pond. Each scale can operate at a capacity of 6 trucks...
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...final inspection/test | c. Material checking | | Failure Costs | A. Internal Failure Costs | a. Scrap | b. Rework | c. Re-callibration | d. Return back the Purchased Material | B. External Failure Costs | a. Customer Returns | b. Product Recalls3. Why has Cascade run into a quality problem, despite a sizable number of people performing the quality control function? | | First, the material's quality is not great according to the Purchase Manager. The many of product returns are also due to the lack of skills of workers. Besides that, the SOP itself hasn't been updated for years. | The SOP also made by the Quality department themselves without any inputs from another departments. Other problem is Quality department only control the output goods and not the in-process. | | 4. Has the current accounting system helped or hindered the quality efforts? | The current accounting system hindered the quality efforts. From the information on the case, the Cascade's current accounting system cannot show the lack of | problems they have in quality area. | | 5. Write a report outlining how Cascade Seating should shift its quality spending to improve product quality? | Cascade Inc has now been downgraded by GM from preferred supplier to backup supplier. From the analysis we have conducted, there are major problems found: | a. Lack of skills of Workers | b. Lack of cooperation inter-departments | c. Not-current SOP | d. Decreased in Material...
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...CASCADE SEATING DISUSUN OLEH 1. AYUNINGTYAS AJIPUTRI 1406589865 2. AZZAHRA 1406659291 UNIVERSITAS INDONESIA MAGISTER AKUNTANSI-PPAk MARET 2015 Cascade Seating 1. Latar Belakang Perusahaan Cascade seating Inc. adalah perusahaan manufaktur besar yang memproduksi jok mobil. Jan Davis sebagai controller mendapat pengaduan dari manajer pabrik, Dave Garcia. General Motors menurunkan Cascade dari supplier utama menjadi backup supplier. GM menetapkan bahwa ketidakkonsistenan fit dari jok mobil sebagai alasan dan menyarankan pada Dave untuk membaca sebuah artikel “Bagaimana Velcro Terkait Pada Kualitas.” GM menurunkan Velcro beberapa tahun kebelakang dalam gaya yang sama, tetapi Velcro mengelola kembali kualitasnya dan sukses kembai menjadi supplier utama untuk GM. Jan dan Dave segera mengopi artikel yang direkomendasikan GM dan membacanya beberapa kali. Keduanya diingatkan pada cerita yang terdengar sama pada Cascade dan kejadian saat ini. Dua poin utama pada artikel sangat mengena. Velcro melakukan program kualitas di tempatnya dan berpikir hal tersebut sudah bekerja dengan baik. Controller dan plant manager, mulai mengidentifikasi masalah yang muncul pada kualitas produk mereka. Cascade memiliki laporan kualitas yang meningkat setiap tahunnya, akan tetapi pasar menunjukkan bahwa produk mereka mengalami penurunan kualitas. Kita mempunyai program kualitas yang menunjukkan peningkatan selama dua tahun, tetapi ditempatkan memiliki kualitas produk yang...
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...TO: Cascade Company SUBJECT: Available for Sale Securities DATE: February 18, 2012 ------------------------------------------------- Cascade Company is looking into investing into Teton Co. and classifying theses shares as available for sale and has requested some information regarding this investment. With some research, it has been found that the fair value of Teton’s stock is readily determinable despite the fact that the stocks are not traded on one of the large stock markets. An issue that can arise sometime in the future from this security is an impairment and as long as the decline in fair value it is anything other than temporary, the fair value of the security can be written down. Also included in this memo is information concerning held to maturity securities and how rare sales and transfers of these securities should be disclosed in financial statements. The rest of the memo will expand on the above points. Readily Determinable Fair Value of Securities According to Financial Accounting Standards Board Codification (FASB), the fair value of the Teton stock is readily determinable. An equity security is readily determinable if it meets the following condition; the sales prices or bid-and-asked quotations must be available with a securities exchange that is currently registered with the Securities Exchange Commission. If the sales price or quotations are available in the over-the-counter market, the stocks are also considered readily determinable...
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...Written Assignment #3 The Hood is Real Damian McElroy Word Count: 1525 Due: Nov 18, 2014 Introduction The High Cascade volcanoes are comprised with many volcanoes formed by basaltic eruptions many years ago. More specifically this research report will be designated to the Mt. Hood region seen in figure (1). Research from articles will be provided with references of their origins and give a clear description of the “Hood”, as well as any dangers it may present to populations near by if it were to become unstable. The research comprised within this report is specific and done so with the use of Google Earth images and articles designated to the specific Mt. Hood area; with this research, a hazard assessment and a reliable research station location will be clearly justified and outlined respectively. Description Mt. Hood is a stratovolcano located 45° 21'58.83"N, 121° 41' 43.51"W, has a diameter of 8.83km-10km (This will vary depending on where the diameter is measured from) and a maximum height of 3426m. The elevation profile can be seen in Figure (2), which distinctively justifies the reason for Mt. Hood being classified as a stratovolcano, due to the very steep slope and maximum height of the mountain. Mount Hood, Oregon's highest peak forms a prominent backdrop to the state's largest city, Portland (Smithsonian Institution, 2013). The glacially eroded volcano has been subject to four major eruptive periods during the past 15,000 years (Smithsonian Institution, 2013)...
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...William Smith ENG110 Nancy Alman The Comparison of Living in Oregon as to living in Michigan I have lived in many states in my life time but when it comes to comparing states, I would have to go with Oregon and Michigan. I found that the differences with these two states would have to be these three things. First would have to be the seasons, then the landscape, and finally it would be the people. Oregon tends to have only two seasons. They are summer and winter, or as the locals say wet and dry. In the summer time it gets into the 90’s, yet at night it gets down into the 50’s, which makes for some nice sleeping weather. The summers are a very dry time of year in Oregon. There are no big thunderstorms, no lightening, and very little, if no rain at all. This type of climate makes it hard to grow certain types of crops. Do to the lack of rain and the cool temperatures at night. The one crop that grows best is grass. The Willamette Valley, namely Linn and Benton counties, is the world’s largest producers of cool- weather grasses. Now we come to the winter season. Ah yes, better known as the rainy season, during which it rains for eight months. Because of the amount of rain that falls, grass and fescue, grows very well in this region. The only problem with winter, other than the rain, is that the sun does not come out very often. With the lack of sun shine and over cast skies comes a feeling of depression. Oregon...
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...Mount St Helens Mount St. Helens is an active volcano in America. The part of America it is in is the Skamania County, Washington, in Northwest United States. It is 96 miles south of Seattle, Washington, and 50 miles northeast of Portland, Oregon. Mount St Helens is a stratovolcano. It last eruption in July 10, 2008. It is 2,550 m high. It was first ascended in 1853. It is in the Cascade Range. Its first ascender was Thomas J. Dryer. Mount St Helens was caused by the subduction of the Juan de Fuca plate under the North American plate. The collision of these two plates is called a collision instead of a destructive because they are both continental plates. In 1980, a major eruption happened at Mount St. Helens. The eruption was the only significant one to occur in the 51 U.S. states since the 1915 eruption of Lassen Peak in California. The eruption was preceded by a two-month series of earthquakes caused by magma close to the volcanos surface that created a fracture system and a huge bulge to occur on the North side of the volcano. Prior to the eruption, USGS scientists convinced local authorities to close Mount St. Helens to the general public their work saved thousands of lives. An earthquake on May 18, 1980, caused the entire north face to slide away creating the largest landslide ever recorded. Because of this it exposed the molten rock in the volcano to lower pressure. This caused the rock to explode. An eruption rose 80,000 feet into the atmosphere. Also the snow on the...
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...then, the volcano has erupted more than ten times, with the most recent one which started in September 2010 and continued through January 2011. The Black Tusk The Black Tusk is a stratovolcano and a pinnacle of volcanic rock in Garibaldi Provincial Park of British Columbia, Canada. At 2,319 m (7,608 ft) above sea level,[3] the upper spire is visible from a great distance in all directions. It is particularly noticeable from the Sea-to-Sky Highway just south of Whistler, British Columbia. Distinctive and immediately identifiable, The Black Tusk is among the best known mountains in the Garibaldi Ranges of the Coast Mountains. The volcano is part of the Garibaldi Volcanic Belt which is a segment of the Canadian Cascade Arc, but it is not within the geographic boundary of the Cascade Range. Blackfoot diatreme The Blackfoot diatreme is a diatreme in southeastern British Columbia, Canada,...
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...Boise Cascade Holdings, L.L.C Tiffany Phifer BUS/475 June 1, 2015 Bruce Voris Boise Cascade Holdings, L.L.C Innovation is vital in most if not all businesses. Innovation brings a sense of new and critical ideas to the table that will businesses thrive towards the future. Without innovative ideas business would not succeed in the world we live in today. Although every business has a different structure with different goals in mind, innovative ideas are the key to each business productivity and success. In explaining the importance of a innovative business vision, mission, values, and determining a business model for Boise Cascade Holdings, L.L.C. this will help the company to succeed in their future endeavors. Innovation Most good company’s know the importance of innovation; therefore, let’s look at an overview of innovation in business to really breakdown the structure and its components. According to “Queensland Government” (2015), “There are several reasons why the generation of new ideas can be critical to your business’s success. Although every organization will have its own priorities and sector-specific issues to balance, businesses that fail to innovate run the risk of losing ground to competitors, losing key staff, or simply operation inefficiently. Innovation can be a key differentiator between market leaders and their rivals” (Why business innovation is important). Innovation is a key part of an organizations business and its plan to succeed. According to “Queensland...
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...Alvin Secord The format of my presentation is structured as presented on the assignment sheet starting from Background information on the community of Weed, California U.S.A followed by the emergency that accumulated within the community and the actions taken by the Emergency Mangers, personnel and problems they faced and overcame. I will then go into my explanation of how I would deal with the emergency as the towns Emergency Manager from there I will digress into what steps should occur to effectively deal with the emergency. Background information on the community (Weed, California) The town of Weed located at the base of Mount Shasta in the Cascade Mountains of California U.S.A just south of the Oregon border with a small population of 2,967 it lays as an attraction for tourist looking to explore the Cascade Mountains or the towns Italian Carnevale. Although the town is located at the base of a mountain it still has unincorporated subdivisions just outside of the town that hold the same P.O box numbers and Zip codes. With the combine populations of these small Subdivisions the total populations of the area is 6,318. The city is well known for its productions of lumbering and manufacturing facilities as well as its ethnic diversity. What is the emergency? On September 15th, 2014 a 375 acre wildfire was pushed by 64km wind that lead to the destruction of 100 homes in Weed with the result of an evacuation order to 1,500 residents (video in presentation) Actions...
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...Shasta County, California Nestled in the middle of Northern California is Shasta County. Population approximately 176,980 as of 2013 and is only one and half hours from the Oregon border. The county is beautiful with forests and mountains, home to Mt. Shasta covered with snow year round and Lake Shasta a very popular water skiing and houseboat resort. Temperatures in the county fluctuate depending on the season from the 100's to freezing with snow. Outdoor activities are the principal recreation, something for everyone. Look to the east and you can see Lassen Peak, an active volcano. There are many small communities within Shasta County that are considered rural. Sounds pristine and inviting. What lies beneath this beautiful blanket of beauty is a county economically crippled. There are many contributing factors to the economic decline in Shasta County that has come full circle evolving from the 1960's. Let's look at a simplified synopsis of the multiplier effects that have affected the economy. Physical isolation: Shasta County’s physical location is more isolated than most other areas or counties of California. Unemployment: the area is economically depressed and has not recovered since the recession of 2008-2009. The unemployment rate remains higher in Shasta County for 2012 than the California's average. Health facilities: There are two large hospitals located in Redding of Shasta County with only two small facilities in the outlying areas with no mental...
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...Rainier is a National Park and has a whopping average of 1,875,651 people visit every year which isn’t even enough to be in the “Top Ten Most Visited National Parks”. People often wonder, “Is it safe to visit Mount Rainier?”, and it is. Mount Rainier is considered a episodically active volcano which means that it won’t erupt any time soon but will eventually. At Mount Rainier, you can do many activities while you are there such as walk on trails, climb to the summit, or just go on a simple bike ride. Where is Mount Rainier? Mount Rainier is located in Tacoma, Washington just over two hours away from downtown Seattle, Washington. Its exact coordinates are 46.8529° N, 121.7604° W. The mountain range that this volcano is apart of is the Cascade Range which travels throughout many states such as California, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia. The National Park’s land is approximately 369.3 mi² which is not huge compared to other National Parks....
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...Before the board of directors could make a decision on whether to sell more shares and, if so, how many, the board members felt they needed more information. Specifically, they would like a forecast of the average number of people (family members, guests, etc.) who might attend the pool each day during the summer with the current number of shares. .:. The Cascades Swim Club has 300 stockholders, each holding one share of stock in the club. A share of club stock allows the shareholder’s family to use the club’s heated outdoor pool during the summer upon payment of annual membership dues of $175. The club has not issued any stock in years and only a few of the existing shares come up for sale each year. The board of directors administers the sale of all stock. When a shareholder wants to sell, he or she turns the stock into the board, which sells it to the person at the top of the waiting list. For the past few years, the length of the waiting list has remained relatively steady at approximately 20 names.(…………….) SOLUTION: Week Day 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Total M 139 198 341 287 303 242 194 197 275 246 224 258 235 3,139 T 273 310 291 247 223 177 207 273 241 177 239 130 218 3,006 W 172 347 380 356 315 245 215 213 190 161 274 195 271 3,334 Th 275 393 367 322 258 390 304 303 243 308 205 238 259 3,865 F 337 421 359 419 193 284 331 262 277 256 361 224 232 3,956 Sa 402 595 463 516 378 417 407 447 241 391 411 368 317 5,353 Su 487 497 578 478 461...
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...Mixed Fluid Cascade Process- Liquefaction process Overview The mixed Fluid Cascade Process is a process which was developed by Linde/statoil LNG technology Alliance. It was implemented in order to reduce the cost and construction time of producing the plant. (Berger,E, Forg, W...2003 pg 12) The process is a single train 4 million tpy LNG plant (Shukre,F and Wheeler,F 2004 pg 3). The main factors of introducing this process to be used in Northern Australia is because it consists of a better procedure and strategy required for the production of LNG, it costs less to assemble the plant with the equipment purchased in order to liquefy the gas and also construction time is reduced (Berger,E, Forg, W...2003 pg 12). Not only can it be economically effective but it is also environmentally friendly. Description /Procedure The below diagram is of how the mixed fluid cascade process operates. The referigerents are made up of methane, ethane, propane and nitrogen (Shukre,F and Wheeler,F 2004 pg 3). Firstly, the natural gas (fed stream) comes in from the top and goes through three mixed refrigerants cycles (red stream). The pre-cooling cycle (green stream) consists of a mixture of Methane and Propane which is compressed in C1 according to the below diagram. It then is liquefied (purple stream) in sea water cooler C1 and sub cooled (blue stream) in E1A (Forg,W, Bach,W, Stockmann,R… 1999 pg5). One part is then throttled to an intermediate pressure and used as refrigerant...
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