Table of Contents Executive Summary ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….2 Introduction…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..2 Company Overview………………………………………………………………………………………………………..3 Industry overview…………………………………………………………………………………………………………..3 Process Analysis……………………………………………………………………………………………………………..4 Main problems and recommendations………………………………………………………………………………10Executive Summary
In a company like Bayonne Packaging, Inc., a printer and paper converter, it is very important that performance measures such as cost, quality and delivery are in agreement with the forecasted values since this firm used to compete based on low cost, good…show more content… Current Capacity Utilization of the Work Centres
To compute the capacity of the work centres we assumed the 347 work hours scheduled for October 2011 as the total working time. We calculated the ratio between the total number of hours that each machine/work centre worked by the total working time to get the capacity utilization.
We can conclude that the Composition, Sheet, Print and Die-Cut departments have an adequate capacity (the fact that the Heidelberg Sheeter is running at more than 100% capacity can be explained by the fact that we are using schedule working hours and standard hours, which can differ from reality). On the other hand the Fold&Glue department, that contains the machines Royal/Queen, Staude and 3A is not working near full capacity. Actually it is just working around half of its capacity, which can anticipate some of the problems on this department.
Ganging Orders
By reading the case we became aware of the practise of ganging, in which orders with similar set up characteristics are run together after a single setup. In this question we calculated the capacity in pieces per day for the Die-Cut Work Centre regarding three different situations of ganging: none of the orders
BAYONNE PACKAGING, INC. CASE 1 OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT teached by Manuel Baganha and Virginia Ulfig GROUP 18 DAVID STIEHL 10217 GONÇALO CORREIA 10613 RUI SOROMENHO 10308 TIAGO SILVA 11006 This case is based only on data available on “Bayonne Packaging, Inc.” by Roy D. Shapiro and Paul E. Morrison Case 1 BAYONNE PACKAGING INC. Bayonne is a “specialty packaging” paper converter that produces customized, complex…
beginning to a great story. A great story with a wonderful opening paragraph that has drawn me in to make me want to read more, this book is. (B) The Law of Bogus Locales A person can infer that the setting of Gaines’ A Lesson Before Dying, Bayonne, LA, is fictional, yet based upon how a real town in southern Louisiana in that time period of the 1940s would have been based upon both prior knowledge, as well as research upon Gaines’ hometown he grew up in during the 1940s. The author shows how…
