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1) How do you classify the time for a drill press operator who is idle for a few minutes at the beginning of every job waiting for the setup person to complete the setup? Some of the setup time is used in going for stock, but the operator typically returns with stock before the setup person is finished with the setup.
2) How does a traditional adversarial relationship with suppliers change when a firm makes a decision to move to a few suppliers?
3) When quantity discounts are offered, why is it not necessary to check discount points that are below the EOQ or points above the EOQ that are not discount points?
4) List the strategic objectives of aggregate planning. Which one of these is most often addressed by the quantitative techniques of aggregate planning? Which one of these is generally the most important?
5) Master schedules are expressed in three different ways depending on whether the process is continuous, a job shop, or repetitive. What are these three ways?
6) JIT attempts to remove delays, which do not add value. How then does JIT cope with weather and its impact on crop harvest and transportation times?
7) How can a manager evaluate the effectiveness of the maintenance function?
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Overcome the measurement error bias
: uppose the amount of labor, L , employed by the firms is also a linear function of expected sales: Li = α1 + α2Xi^e Explain how the relationship between L and X^e can be used to overcome the measurement error bias, and justify your suggestion.
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Develop a company description
: For the first part of your course project, you need to develop a company description based on the following criteria: the company name, its history, its products or services (with brief descriptions), the company mission statement, the company cul..
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How many cucumbers can she expect to harvest
: How many cucumbers can she expect to harvest? Find the probability that Mimi harvests at least 2 of the 10 cucumbers. Construct a table describing the probability distribution.
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Product assembly line to produce signal generators
: A manufacturing firm maintains one product assembly line to produce signal generators. Weekly demand for the generators is 35 units. The line operates for 7 hours per day, 5days per week. What is the maximum production time per unit in hours requi..
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Evaluate the effectiveness of the maintenance function
: JIT attempts to remove delays, which do not add value. How then does JIT cope with weather and its impact on crop harvest and transportation times? How can a manager evaluate the effectiveness of the maintenance function
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How worried do you think we should be about election hacking
: How worried do you think we should be about election hacking, and what if anything do you think we should be doing about it?
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Find articles about everything other than cybersecurity
: Just searching "resilience" will not work, you'll find articles about everything other than cybersecurity. You should search on both "cybersecurity" and "resilience", or just "cyber" and "resilience". Those searches should turn up plenty of articl..
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Performance of an economy
: a) To what extent does the prevailing market rate of interest influence the performance of an economy b) Argue for and against interest rate decontrols.
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Raising funds to finance government activities
: a) Identify and explain options available for raising funds to finance Government activities. b) With regard to fiscal policies,identify short-run measures a government of a developing country may adopt to ensure sustainable economic growth
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