Continuous Improvement Report ‘Murphy’s Cellars’ 22nd March 2011 Michael Wallace Peter Crown Geoff Hancock Laura White March 16, 2011 Dear Nathan, We would like to take his opportunity to thank you for participating in our recent Continuous Improvement Project. Your cooperation and assistance over the past two months has been outstanding and the information you have provided the team invaluable. Your professional attitude towards the project was exceptional and the out of hours work you
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pioneered the Total Quality Management theory. Dr. Deming subscribed to the belief that a company or organization should encourage direct interaction between employees and the customers. Dr. Deming was convinced that this approach would foster an organizational-wide understanding of exactly what the customers need; meanwhile,
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Suppliers, Cost, Price Tag, and Assurance Price and Cost “When you stop to think about what price is, are you talking about the price tag or are you talking about the cost, the total cost” (Dr. W. Edwards Deming as cited in Encyclopedia Britannica Education Corporation, 1984). “. . . [I]t is total cost that is important not the price tag on what you buy” (Dr. W. Edwards Deming as cited in Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982). These words, or others along these same lines, are probably some
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What is your opinion about life ? In my opinion , life is very unpredictable and full of surprises . There are many times when things happened not as the way we planned it or what we thought will happened . Even some things happened better than what we expected . Have you ever imagined that you will became what you are today ? The same questions came across my mind . I never thought that I will taking a law courses and study legal terms . Back there , when I am in primary school , I have always
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Objectives - MS Project 2010 * Change the task type settings to control how resources affect task assignments * Apply a preset resource contour to change work value distribution * Working with task information forms When planning a project schedule, adjustments are often needed to reflect necessary changes in project scope, assignments, etc. In MS Project, when an assignment is changed, the schedule is recalculated to display the changes. You can work with the scheduling
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has had difficulty with their circuit board manufacturing and has attempted to determine the problem. Thirty samples were taken of four boards each due to unacceptable variability and the results from each data set were placed in a chart. (Staff Writer, 2010) CHART 1 – Sample Data DATA | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 1 | 4.92 | 4.65 | 5.77 | 6.25 | 5.27 | 5.22 | 5.47 | 5.71 | 5.24 | 4.42 | 5.14 | 4.92 | 5.79 | 4.92 | 5.68 | 2 | 4.26 | 5.54 | 5.26 | 4.88
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1. Introduction Dr. W. Edwards Deming was the first one who supported Total Quality Management (TQM) in the late 1950's. US industry did not accept his ideas; but Japan -in their recovery from World War II- admitted them. According to Dr. W. Edward Deming; “examples teach nothing unless they are studied with the aid of theory”. This essay is to help you understand the theory behind Deming's 14 points, and to review relevant examples that apply to each point. As a product which comes from a system
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solve 95 percent of all problems. These tools have been the foundation of Japan's astomishing industrial resurgence after the second world war. The following are the 7 QC Tools : 1. Pareto Diagram 2. Cause & Effect Diagram 3. Histogram 4. Control Charts 5. Scatter Diagrams 6. Graphs 7. Check Sheets 2 Pareto Diagram Pareto Diagram is a tool that arranges items in the order of the magnitude of their contribution, thereby identifying a few items exerting maximum influence. This tool is used in
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line. This is to be done using quantitative and qualitative data, consisting of reliable and relevant information. Answers and Conclusions a) The first assignment was to create the control charts showing that the process of the machinery is in statistical control. This was accomplished using the x-bar charts program on the POM software. By viewing Graph 1, you are able to see the range of the weight within each sample group. You can see that the range diversifies from up to eleven grams in
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ITB7321 Assignment Due Date: Friday 17 June 2011 at 4pm. If you wish to hand it in early (by Friday 3 June) it will be marked before the end of the semester. Read the case study about Wal-Mart on the following page (taken from Laudon & Laudon, p.433) and answer these questions: 1. What is the ethical dilemma facing Wal-Mart in this case? 2. Do Wal-Mart’s associates also face an ethical dilemma? If so, what is it? 3. Refer to slides 13 and 14 of Lecture 10. Which of these ethical
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