Concord, Inc. is unsure of whether to sell its product assembled or unassembled. The unit cost of the unassembled product is $12, while the cost of assembling each unit is estimated at $14. Unassembled units can be sold for $59, while assembled units could be sold for $65 per unit. What decision should Concord make? Process further; the company will save $8 per unit. Sell before assembly; the company will save $8 per unit. Sell before assembly; the company will save $4 per unit. Process further; the company will save $6 per unit.

How can the modular design concept control production variety and at the same time allow product variety?

How are product requirements gathered, documented, and prioritized during the product development process?

Lincoln Electric Inc. has a direct manufacturing cost of $147/welding unit and defective units can be reworked for $46/unit. Of the 343 units that begin production per day, 89% are good and 60% of defective motors can be reworked. What is the yield?

Given the following customer requirements and technical requirements for a laptop, construct a partial House of Quality. Use your own preferences to denote relationship strengths Customer Requirements Technical Requirement Long battery life Processor efficiency Fast performance RAM capacity Lightweight design Build material High-quality display Screen resolution Ample storage SSD capacity

Problem 9-17 Frandec Company manufactures, assembles, and rebuilds material handling equipment used in warehouses and distribution centers. One product, called a Liftmaster, is assembled from four components: a frame, a motor, two supports, and a metal strap. Frandec's production schedule calls for 5000 Liftmasters to be made next month. Frandec purchases the motors from an outside supplier, but the frames, supports, and straps may be either manufactured by the company or purchased from an outside supplier. Manufacturing and purchase costs per unit are shown. Component. Frame Support Strap Component Frame Support Strap Capacity (hours) Three departments are involved in the production of these components. The time (in minutes per unit) required to process each component in each department and the available capacity (in hours) for the three departments are as follows: Department Milling 2.2 1.7 SP number of supports purchased Min s.t. TM number of straps manufactured TP number of straps…

Maximize Z=200x1 + 160x2 + 130x3 Subject to Assembly Inspection Packaging And x1, x2, x3 >=0 4x1 +3.5x2 +2.25x3 = 180 2x1 +1.5x2 + 1x3 <= 40 1.25x1 + 1x2 +0.50x3 <= 20

Analyze a specific product or service that utilizes persuasive technology. How does it leverage persuasive design principles to achieve its goals?

MacDonald Products, Inc., of Clarkson, New York, has the option of (a) proceeding immediately with production of a new top-of-the-line stereo TV that has just completed prototype testing or (b) having the value analysis team complete a study. If Ed Lusk, VP for operations, proceeds with the existing prototype (option a), the firm can expect sales to be 100,000 units at $550 each, with a probability of 0.60 and a 0.40 probability of 75,000 at $550. If, however, he uses the value analysis team (option b), the firm expects sales of 75,000 units at $750, with a probability of 0.70 and a 0.30 probability of 70,000 units at $750. Value engineering, at a cost of $100,000, is only used in option b. Which option has the highest expected monetary value (EMV)? The EMV for option a is $ and the EMV for option b is $ Therefore, option has the highest expected monetary value. (Enter your responses as integers.) a

Using the table, either buying a network of PCs for a department at your workplace or outfitting a laboratory of PCs for students at a university, conduct a multicriteria analysis that contrasts at least three alternative configurations with at least three different requirements and three different constraint criteria