Describe the architecture of a Swiss army knife.

a) Data has been collected for a machine over a number of weeks and this isQ6a below. Calculate the overall equipment contained in Table effectiveness. b) Discuss the results you obtain and suggest the areas where improvement efforts should be focused. c) The Manufacturing Manager has agreed to an 8 hour shutdown each week for planned maintenance on the machine in Q6a. The manager has also agreed that this planned downtime can be taken out of the OEE calculation.What is the new OEE value?

a) Manufacturing operations and their process types can be located along avolume/variety continuum. Provide a suitable 'process type' which would fitin the following positions and give an example where it might be used? i)High volume low variety ii)Low volume high variety b) What are kanban systems? why are they used? and how are they controlled? c) Calculate the capacity of the Kanbans and the inventory level given the following information: Utilisation rate R =900/hr//////Delay time T= 40mins////Number of Kanbans = 4//////Operation Variation X = 10% d) The following options have been proposed to reduce the inventory level for the situation outlined in (Q4b). Option A: Capacity C is increased to 400 units3 Option B: X becomes 20% or Option C: The delay time Tis halved orWhich option would you choose and why?

8. Based on what you did so far, what is the best layout type you should use for your facility to produce respirators? Explain your reasoning in 200 words. (15 Points)

You employed Process by expert'Whatypeofimprovement' limited. The Managing Director is looking to improve the performance of operations and has asked you to answer the following area questions. a) What are the two main approaches to Operations Improvement (provide diagrams as necessary) b) What is BPR and what are the key principles? c) What are the key benefits of BPR ? d) How does BPR suggest operations structures should be organised?

3. Suppose you have two decision variables, X1 and X2, representing whether Departments 1 and 2 are expanded. The variables are 1 if the department is-expanded and 0 if not. What constraint is needed to ensure that if one department is expanded, then both are expanded?

A furniture manufacturer is considering a line of seating products to be fabricated by cutting and bending a recycled plastic material available in large sheets. Create a prototype of at least one possible chair design by cutting and bending a sheet of paper or cardboard. (You may wish to design the chair with a sketch first, or just start working with the sheet directly.) What can you learn about the chair design from your prototype? What can't you learn about the chair design from such a prototype?

We learned about Anthropometric data, Design for Average, Design for Extreme, and Designfor Adjustment. Please listen to the story in the video link below and answer the followingquestions. a) (15 points) Explain why the "design for average" approach in the airplane cockpit causedairplane accidents and incidents? ) (15 points) Explain how the U.S. Airforce fit the cockpit design to the individual pilot?Use the keywords "Design for Adjustment" and "Design for Extremes." c) (10 points) Find another two examples of "design for average" problems in your life.Explain their problems. Do not include the examples used in the video link.

In this exercise, you will identify the appropriate anthropometric measurement to assess the design parameters of a student chair for a classroom of mixed students (50% males and 50%females). See Figure 1 below to check design parameters. a) (9 points) Based on the anthropometric dimensions presented in the lecture slides, which anthropometric measurement is required for each design parameter mentioned in Figure 1(SD, SH, SW, BH, BW, and DH)? Explain your answers. b) (12 points) For each anthropometric measurement identified in (a), which percentile(s) is(are) required for the adjustable seat design? Justify and explain in detail your answers. c) (9 points) Examine in detail the pros and cons of designing products for a fixed percentage of a population. When is this approach likely to be problematic? Citeappropriate references.

In order for the GRG non-linear engine to be guaranteed to find a global optimal solution to a maximization problem, two conditions must be met.The first is that the objective function, or its logarithm, must be concave.What is the second?

Which of the following statements is NOT true? A feasible solution satisfies all constraints An optimal solution satisfies all constraints An infeasible solution violates all constraints A feasible solution does not have to lie on the boundary of the feasible region