Process Improvement Plan Christina Scott OPS/571 March 19, 2012 Ray E. Mowery Process Improvement Plan In week one of this course, the students were asked by the instructor to select a process that the student performed on a daily basis. This student chose the task of driving to work. The student collected driving times for four weeks. This paper will cover the explanation of the control limits, including calculations and data used to determine them. The paper will discuss the effect of any
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Project Management Recommendation OPS 571 Project Management Recommendation University of Phoenix Material Project Management E-Mail Dear Project Manager: We have three project proposals to consider in next week’s Project Management Office’s (PMO) Review. Piper Industries Corp. needs the projects to be complete and to be generating revenue within 12 months of next week’s PMO Review. Wendell Deirelein, our vice-president, has assigned your team to analyze the three projects below
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Project Management Recommendation OPS/571 March 21, 2014 Dear Mr. Gritsch, First and foremost, my name is William Claasse, and I am the senior project manager at Claasse Consultation Ltd. I would like to take the opportunity to personally thank you along with your vice president Mr. Deirelein for instilling faith and trust in our organization to aid Piper Industries Corp. in making an informed decision in regards to which of the three proposed projects to invest in. Our team has performed
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Industrial Laundry Processing Flow University of Phoenix OPS / 571 Industrial Laundry Processing Flow Process analysis and execution is critical to an industrial laundry operation considering the direct correlation between time and cost. A wash floor process takes soiled textiles (inputs), launders said textiles, and provides clean textiles (outputs) to be finished and delivered to existing customers (Chase, Jacobs, & Aquilano, 2006, p. 154). Various factors can affect the process flow
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Process Improvement Plan OPS/571 March 26, 2012 Process Improvement Plan Processes exist in all organizations and the true success of any company is the ability to examine processes and implement an improvement plan. The organizations that strive to improve processes can improve quality control, increase profits and performance, lower costs, and create a more efficient organization. Implementing a process improvement plan requires management to identify, analyze and improve existing processes
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Process Improvement Plan University of Phoenix OPS 571 February 10, 2012 Christine Thigpen Process Improvement Plan An inherent part of the service experience is that customers dislike waiting and this waiting influences the customer evaluation of service (Taylor, 1994). Kaiser Permanente’s business office is working on improving their customer service process time for financial aid applications. Currently the
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Process Design Matrix Executive Summary OPS/571 Operations Management July 28, 2014 Process Design Matrix Executive Summary Service Chosen: Personal Concierge Service Types of Service Offered: Dog walking, house sitting and maid services Operational Approach Production Line Approach According to the article, Production-line approach to service, this approach consists of breaking down the process it takes to manufacture one unit into an assembly line. This can best be seen in service industries such
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Riordan Manufacturing Scott Wissel OPS/571 February 24, 2013 Kristina Limon Riordan, a chemistry professor, found some ways to increase the tensile strength on polymers and patented the ideas. Eventually he was able to get some capital and started to manufacture his product. Riordan Manufacturing is a company that has 550 people. They are also looking to have $46 million of projected annual earnings. Riordan Industries owns the company that is a fortune 1000 enterprise that has over
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Bottlenecks in a Process Scott Cleveland University of Phoenix OPS 571 March 19, 2012 Dr. Jim Hoelscher Abstract This assignment will examine and uncover bottlenecks that exist in a Process. The central purpose is to expand on the data collected in the Week one assignment and build on it to be able to correctly identify the Bottlenecks in that process. The process examined was that of Cooking so this assignment will consider
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Product Launch Plan Wind-based energy is becoming the most popular and fastest growing form of alternative energy in today’s market. Compact Energy, Inc. (CE) is a newly formed organization with the goal of providing affordable energy solutions to all areas of the world. Currently, CE operates domestically in Eritrea and internationally in Argentina. In this paper, the team creates a product launch of CE’s compact windmill for both the domestic and international market. The team discusses
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