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Three Jays Corporation (Spanish version)
Marshall, Paul W.; Davis, MarkCase HBS-915S15Service and Operations ManagementBrodie Arens is an MBA student and summer intern at Three Jays Corporation, a jam and jelly manufacturer in Michigan. Brodie's first assignment as an intern is to update the inventory and production planning system. Initially, he begins by updating the Economic Order Quantities (EOQ) and Reorder Points (ROP) for each product. However, he soon learns that the formal production planning system was being ignored by the workers on the factory floor. ...Starting at €8.20
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Three Jay's Corporation, Teaching Note
Marshall, Paul W.; Davis, MarkTeaching Note HBS-915532-EService and Operations ManagementTeaching Note for Product #915531.Starting at €0.00
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Flex Hungary: Launching Production (A)
Shih, WillyCase HBS-618002-EService and Operations ManagementThis case examines design choices in the construction of flow lines. Flow lines are a popular way of arranging production because they are simple and inherently efficient. Equipment or workstations are arranged according to the sequence of steps in which a product is made. Each step consists of a set of tasks that individually are minimum rational work elements. These are combined to form the work assignment associated with the step. The work fol...Starting at €8.20
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Production Processes
Shih, Willy; Toffel, Michael W.Case HBS-618023-EService and Operations ManagementThis note describes four broad categories of process architectures and then examines the nature of task assignment that typically would be found in a factory organized along the lines of each process type. It then delves more deeply into work flow policies, materials handling, and line pacing for the assembly line, since this process architecture is so widely used for the mass production of everything from smartphones to automobiles.Starting at €8.20
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Fisher Manufacturing Company (A)
Kraft, Tim; Weiss, Elliott N.Case DARDEN-OM-1598-EService and Operations ManagementDorothy Hoffman, plant manager for the Clarksburg, Virginia, location of Fisher Manufacturing Company (Fisher), had a problem: her plant was repeatedly failing to improve its dismal performance when it came to meeting shipping dates. Only 60% of its June shipments had met the well-established four-week service standard of the coated-abrasives industry. She knew that an investment of $8 million in new equipment would provide a significant reductio...Starting at €8.20