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    BUS 644 Week 6 Final Paper Space Age Furniture Problem University Name In the case of Space Age Furniture Company, the operations manager Coral must address the challenge of producing 2,000 units of part 3079 without requiring overtime from the skilled operator, Ed. Discuss the effectiveness of the production smoothing strategy, the possibility of hiring an additional operator, and the impact of inventory space costs on profitability. Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of these strategies and propose the most efficient solution for the company to meet customer demand while minimizing costs. (Minimum 750 words)

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    Read “Space Age Furniture Company” in Chapter 9 of your text. Respond to the following and include any Materials Requirement Planning (MRP) calculations: a. Develop an MRP for Space Age Furniture Company using the information in the case including the production of sub - assemblies in lot sizes of 1,000. b. The lot size of 1,000 for sub - assemblies has produced a lumpy demand for part 3079. Suggest ways for improvements over sub - assemblies in lot sizes of 1,000. c. Analyze the trade - off between overtime costs and inventory costs. d. Calculate a new MRP that improves the base MRP. e. Compare and contrast the types of production processing — job shop, batch, repetitive, or continuous — and determine which the primary mode of operation is and why. f. Describe ways that management can keep track of job status and location during production. g. Recommend any changes that might be beneficial to the company and/or add value for the custome Abstract The Space Age Furniture Company appropriated a requisition of 1000 Gemini furniture pieces and an alternate for 1000 Saturn furniture pieces. The unit that will generate the y said units is equipped for gathering the handling of the requested products, however the quandary is the accessibility of a gifted worker who can proficiently work the extraordinary machine required in the processing of a particular part to finish an unit. The main mechanic of the organization can prepare 30 bits of said part in a hour , 240 pieces in a general 8 hour work day, or what added up to 1,200 pieces in a 5 working days for every week. Anyhow to take care of the demand of the customer for a particular date of conveyance, 2,000 units must be made in one week. Ed, the main gifted machine admin is hesitant to work more extra minutes. In this way, the furniture organization is confronted with the issue of conveying the requested units asked for by the customer on a particular date and influencing Ed to work additional minutes throug hout the

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    whole weeks of pro cessing. The organization has one week lead opportunity to transform both requested items. Space Age Furniture Problem Struggling to meet the client satisfaction, by effectively balancing production of goods with employee contentment is always a problem to producers of goods. Take the case of Space Age Furniture Company. The company has only one machine operator who can operate the special lathe that will produce part number 3079 needed in the completion of both Genesis 425 and Saturn 257, part 3079 is essential in the production of both commissioned products. But this essential part is only produced by the special lathe which only Ed can skillfully operate. With Ed opting to work the regular shift, 8 hours in five regular working days, only 1,200 pieces will be made in a week. But with the higher demand for the products and the time element included in the order, more of part 3079 must be produced per day which would translate to overtime work for Ed, if he agrees to it. Hiring another machinist to take over the production after Ed’s shift ends, may yet solve the problem but the special lathe requires a highly skilled operator like Ed, to work it efficiently, and not a lot of Ed’s caliber can be immediately hired to do the work. Another alternative is a training anew operator, but that will not be good option, considering that the new recruit may not turn out to be as skilled as Ed. “ With Coral, the operations manager of the company is tasked to address the problem of solving the timely and efficient production of the specific part without the burden of overtime to the only a vailable operator of the lathe” ( Gallego G, 2011)

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