...INtroduction The three-year old Donner Company has positioned itself well within both the small volume, customized (contract) printed circuit boards market as well as the large volume, generic (captive) printed circuit boards market. Large electronic firms (AT&T, IBM) produced their components in captive shops, while smaller sized companies, or when large and small quantities of simple technology or fast turn-around prototype boards were required, these requests usually are fulfilled by contract shops. With a company that is managed primarily by engineers, Donner’s core competency was, obviously, its engineering expertise, and it produced specialized circuit boards known as “soldermask over bare copper” (SMOBC) boards. Donner positioned itself to manufacture these boards to small and large electronic firms and management envisioned it as one of the industry leaders. With 750 competitors in the US alone, and a market that is volatile, Donner’s ability to anticipate and resolve design problems and prototype techniques enabled it to maintain its competitive edge. However, this competitive edge has been compromised by poor on-time delivery and high rate of product return, in addition to planning and manufacturing problems that caused bottlenecks, shifting bottlenecks and improper utilization of labor. These problems began to hamper the overall performance of the firm, and management started evaluating the company’s position and different strategic policies. 1....
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...The Donner Party was a group of individuals trying to create an improved existence for their selves. The leaders were two prosperous brothers Jacob and George Donner. Their group was traveling out west like many others looking to start a new life with new opportunities but things turned out to be much worse than they expected. The party had to face challenges along the way that left them struggling to stay alive and well. The Donner party left Springfield, Illinois on April 16, 1846 with about ninety migrants and one wagon per every three individuals. Their plan was to reach San Francisco, California a place full of new and prosperous opportunities. They left almost two weeks after another group with the same intentions, and were the last wagon group to depart for the year from Springfield. People in Springfield had said that even the previous party of wagons had left to late to beat the harsh California winter. The trip was supposed to take four months but then things turned much worse for the Donner Party. The Reeds and Donners were given a letter from one of Hasting’s solicitors warning them to expect trouble from Mexican authorities and Native Americans in California. He advised them to stay...
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...The Donner Party was a group of 90 people from the eastern part of the United States. In 1846 the party set out to California from Springfield, Illinois, and Independence, Missouri. They wanted to go to California because of the abundant amount of land. Unfortunately, they had ba leaders and wrong information. There were many decisions made that would become the downfall of the Donner Party. They would not all survive one of these decisions and only thirty-seven would make it to California. The Donner Party started out very unprepared for their journey to the West. They left on their trip with everything they would need to do what they were used to doing. They even had supplies for starting a school in the West. Sadly, most of the Donner...
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......... 1 Appendix I: Process Flow ..................................................................................................................................... 2 Appendix II: Break-even analysis for Drilling and Profiling processes ............................................................ 3 Appendix III: Standard operation times (setup and run time scaled per board) ............................................ 4 Appendix IV: Total operation time results for the order sizes 1, 8, 200 and 800 ............................................ 5 Appendix V: Capacity in the DFPR area ............................................................................................................ 6 ! II! Executive Summary The Donner Company manufactures Soldermask over bare copper circuit boards. Meeting specifications of small and large electronic firms by a self-invented process making them one of the industry leaders. The routine process1 can be divided in three main stages - preparation, image transfer and fabrication (Appendix I). In both, image transfer and fabrication, it is possible to choose between two alternate technologies (manual vs. automatic) leading to the same output in a sub-process while differing in a fixed setup time and run time per board. Therefore, a break-even quantity was calculated for both in order to configure a decision rule on which option to schedule customer orders to achieve the smallest total production time (Appendix III). As...
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...Introduction: Donner Company, a customized printed circuit board manufacturer is facing three main problems: productivity, quality issues and delayed deliveries. We start analyzing with a diagram showing information flow beginning from the customer placing the order to the delivery of that order can be represented as below. Customer places order Customer places order Estimate Labour and Material costs Estimate Labour and Material costs Prepare and submit bid Prepare and submit bid Check & Verify Design Check & Verify Design Detailed specifications and factory order by Altmeyer Detailed specifications and factory order by Altmeyer Normal Normal Customer accepts bid? Customer accepts bid? Yes Yes Promise delivery time Promise delivery time 1 day from bid accept-ance 1 day from bid accept-ance Rush Rush Scheduling & processing of order Scheduling & processing of order 4 days from bid accept-ance 4 days from bid accept-ance 2 days 2 days No No End End Material specifications by Schnabs Material specifications by Schnabs Delivered to customer Delivered to customer Send order to purchasing agent Send order to purchasing agent Shipping the order Shipping the order Instruct purchasing agent & procure material Instruct purchasing agent & procure material Blue print, factory order sent to Flaherty Blue print, factory order sent to Flaherty Blue print, factory order sent to Flaherty Blue print, factory order sent...
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...For this Task I choose an excerpt from “Ordeal by Hunger the Story of the Donner Party”. I feel this particular piece of Non-Fiction gives us an eyewitness account of the tragic events suffered by the participants of the 1846 expedition to California by the Donner Party. The book is written by George Stewart who was a novelist and a professor of English at the University of California Berkeley campus. Stewart wrote mostly fiction but ventured into some non-fiction historical work on occasion. Mr. Stewart paints a very descriptive picture of the events as the search party reached the camp. He tells us that as Mr. Cody and Clark reached the first camp, they witnessed sighting Jean Baptiste who was carrying a severed human leg. (Stewart, 1936) Mr. Baptiste, upon sighting Cody and Clark, threw the leg back in the hole that contained the body of Jacob Donner. (Stewart, 1936) Stewart give’s a description of the condition of the body like that of a modern day police report. He describes facts like, the arms and legs are severed, the trunk is sliced open, and the heart and liver are missing. (Stewart, 1936) The book was written in 1936 when writers did not use strong descriptive language like that. I feel Stewart overtly described the scene to draw more attention to the story and sell more books. The descriptions didn’t need to be detailed to the point they were for the reader to understand the story. Stewart’s subjectivity was that of an author describing the story to...
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...Harvard Business School 9-689-030 Rev. December 11, 1998 Donner Company In October 1987, Edward Plummer, president of the Donner Company, was reviewing the company's position prior to planning 1988 operations. strip: artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material The Donner Company manufactured printed circuit boards to the specifications of a variety of electronics manufacturers. Each board consisted of a thin sheet of insulating material with narrow metal strips (conductors) bonded to its surface. The insulating sheet acted as a structural member and supported electronic components connected by the conducting strips. In the customer's plant, assemblers (human and/or automated machinery) positioned electronic components in the predrilled holes in the board, soldered them into place, and then installed the board in the final electronic product. insulation - insulating material: a material that reduces or prevents the transmission of heat or sound or electricity At the end of 1987, there were 750 printed circuit board manufacturers in the United States. These manufacturers could be classified either as captive or contract manufacturers. Large electronics firms, such as IBM, AT&T and Digital Equipment, produced much of their own requirements in captive board shops. When large quantities of simple technology boards, or small quantities of fast turnaround prototype boards were required, these customers would usually subcontract production to contract manufacturers...
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...The Goonies/ Formal Organization I. Hierarchy of Authority a) Mikey- the leader, knowledge of the treasure and story of the treasure, desire to fix the problem (he knew Chunk would drop the framed map, Chester Copperpot, holds the dab loon), persistent in his desire to find the treasure b) Data-Gadgets c) Chunk-reluctant member; recruitment(Sloth) – knows the Fratelli’s are bad; reluctant “ I don’t want to go on any more Goonie adventures”; his reluctance leads to him being left behind; d) Mouth- Spanish translator e) Brand thinks he’s in charge because he is the oldest II. Pattern of Reporting relationships a) Each person that is involved with the group reports somewhat to Mikey. Mikey reports to no one but his older brother b) The idea of the Goonies seems to be Mikey’s idea and anything involved regarding the group gets run by him. c) Mikey has little control of reporting relationships and is trumped to a degree by his older brother III. Formal measurement, evaluations, and control systems a) the formal measurement of the group would be if they succeed in fending off the developers and if they find one-eyed Willie’s treasure. b) division of activities are based on individual strengths- interactions are not required but wanted by the individuals c) Control of the group is informal based on the members have little knowledge of what tasks they’ll be performing next d) Fratelli’s...
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...Lansford Hastings wrote a book called ‘The Emigrants’ guide to Oregon and California’ to guide others on a shortcut that he himself had never taken. A group on the way to California soon learned why. On July 19th, 1846, The Donner Party, a group of 87 people, mainly families, moved out west from Illinois. In the party “were James and Margaret Reed, Margaret's mother, their four children, five employees and one friend, from Springfield, Illinois. Also from Springfield were two brothers and their families, George and Tamsen Donner and Jacob and Elizabeth Donner, and between them, thirteen children and three teamsters. From Keokuk, Iowa came Patrick and Margaret "Peggy" Breen, their seven children and a...
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...Donner Company - Operations Analysis Contents Objective 2 Business Context of Donner Company 2 Problem statement 2 Process Flow Diagram 2 Organization Structure 3 Situation analysis 4 Alternates before Donner 4 Recommendations 4 Exhibits 4 Objective The objective of the assignment is to analyze the operations of Donner Company, to find out the problems faced by the company and give recommendations addressing these problems Business Context of Donner Company * Donner Company, founded in 1985, manufactured printed circuit boards to the specifications of a variety of electronics manufacturers competing with approx. 750 printed circuit board manufacturers in the country. * President of Donner Company, Edward Plummer was concerned about productivity, quality and delivery problems as the current difficulties which the company faced. Problem statement 1. Draw the process flow diagram for a normal order that goes through the production system at Donner. 2. What orders [by way of batch size] would you schedule on the CNC drill? On the CNC router? 3. What is the capacity of the Dry Film Photoresist area? How does capacity change with order size? 4. What is the standard labor time for an order of one board? 8 boards? 200 boards? 5. What are the problems faced by Donner? 6. What are your recommendations to address these problems? Process Flow Diagram Organization Structure Situation analysis 1. Production...
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...Ive known about the Donner Party story since I was a little kid. My history teachers would tell us about how a big group of people traveled west for the gold rush in California because there was money to be made. Teachers told us how they got stuck in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, somewhere near Lake Tahoe California. They were trapped due to a big snowstorm, ran out of food so had to eat each other in order to survive. Such a horrific story when you hear it when your 8 but as I got older I began to wonder more about their journey so when I got the chance to read a book about it I took it. In this book the author Ethan Rarick discusses their journey, how the Donners, Reeds, and other parties ended up in this situation, what they did to survive, and how lucky they were for some of them to survive.. The book begins with a brief history of the families and why many of them were eager to head west. Like most, they were in search of a better life that would bring them better times. Starting off from Independence Missouri, Rarick details not only how boring this journey must have been, but how unbearably slow. He estimates that the families with all their buggies and oxen probably moved at...
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...James F. Reed Life before the Donner Party James Frazier Reed was born on the 14th of November in 1800 in Country Aramagh, Ireland. When he was a young man he emigrated to the United States and settled down in Virginia. He than later moved to Springfield, Illinois. When he was there he became involved in furniture trade. In 1835, James married Margaret Backenstone and had four children. James was a fairly wealthy man, considering he established his own furniture company. James decided that he wanted to move to California, in April 1846, James, his wife, his four children, and his mother-in-law joined and party led by George Donner. Donner Party In Independence, Missouri on May 1846 a wagon train of twenty wagons and a hundred people arrived. Later on...
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...Harvard Business School 9-689-030 Rev. December 11, 1998 Donner Company In October 1987, Edward Plummer, president of the Donner Company, was reviewing the company's position prior to planning 1988 operations. strip: artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material The Donner Company manufactured printed circuit boards to the specifications of a variety of electronics manufacturers. Each board consisted of a thin sheet of insulating material with narrow metal strips (conductors) bonded to its surface. The insulating sheet acted as a structural member and supported electronic components connected by the conducting strips. In the customer's plant, assemblers (human and/or automated machinery) positioned electronic components in the predrilled holes in the board, soldered them into place, and then installed the board in the final electronic product. insulation - insulating material: a material that reduces or prevents the transmission of heat or sound or electricity At the end of 1987, there were 750 printed circuit board manufacturers in the United States. These manufacturers could be classified either as captive or contract manufacturers. Large electronics firms, such as IBM, AT&T and Digital Equipment, produced much of their own requirements in captive board shops. When large quantities of simple technology boards, or small quantities of fast turnaround prototype boards were required, these customers would usually subcontract production to contract manufacturers...
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...The Indifferent Stars Above is not merely a nonfiction historical account of the Donner Party migration as the U.S. moved to expand it's frontiers, but it is a deeply enriching story of survival. Daniel Brown strips the mythologized category of the emigrants and the Donner party from the American embellished view of American Pioneers and instead paints the real atrocities that were faced on a daily basis by the unit of emigrants as they moved their way through Utah, Oregon, and California. Brown dedicates his anthropological foundation to the story of Sarah Graves and begins his historical account with the initial source; bones. Brown interestingly finds a link between his father's uncle George W. Tucker and Sarah Graves, the Donner Party Bride. He notes that is unlikely that they knew each other...
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...Les types de texte 1- Problématique إشكالية لا وجود لنص بريء. Pour chaque texte un objectif لكل نص غاية. . Type de texte نية الكاتب هي التي تحدد نوع النص Raconter une histoire فربما تكون الغاية سرد قصة ، Établir une de--SS--ion أو وصف شيء معين Défendre une idée ، أو الدفاع عن فكرة critiqué أو انتقاد شيء Donner une information أو يعطي معلومة Conseiller أو ينصحه Donner un ordre أو يأمر شخصا .هده الغايات تحدد نوع النص . C'est l'intention de l'auteur qui détermine le type de texte 2- Type de textes يمكن أن نجمل أنواع النصوص في 5: - raconter une histoire (texte narratif) - établir une de--SS--ion (texte de--SS--if) (Argumenter, critiquer (texte argumentatif- - imposer une opinion ou donner des conseils (texte injonctif) - donner des informations (texte explicatif-informatif) 3- Les caractéristiques : الخصائص 3-1 : le texte narratif النص السردي Fonction / intention de l'auteurغاية الكاتب | On peut le trouver dans...أين يمكن أن نجده؟ | Caractéristiquesخصائص مميزة | Raconter. Faire le récit d'événements. Faire revivre une action passée réelle ou faire vivre une action imaginaire (fiction) | Reportage, journal, fait divers, roman (policier, d'aventures, de science-fiction…), conte, légende, fable,nouvelle, texte historique... | Imparfait et passé simple ou présent de narration. Indications temporelles, actions, événements, personnages, narrateur, | Questions pour exploiter un texte narratif : Qui ? Fait quoi ? Où ? Quand ? Comment...
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