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The document is a group assignment for an Operations Management course at Jimma University, detailing various questions that students must answer. Topics include the influence of corporate social responsibility, globalization, and environmental protection on operations, differences between aggregate planning in service and manufacturing, and the roles of MRP, ERP, and JIT in lean production. Additionally, it includes practical tasks related to task sequencing, cycle time calculations, and job scheduling on machines.

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Group Assignment

The document is a group assignment for an Operations Management course at Jimma University, detailing various questions that students must answer. Topics include the influence of corporate social responsibility, globalization, and environmental protection on operations, differences between aggregate planning in service and manufacturing, and the roles of MRP, ERP, and JIT in lean production. Additionally, it includes practical tasks related to task sequencing, cycle time calculations, and job scheduling on machines.

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Jimma University

Business & Economics College


Management Department
Operations Management (MBA 631)

Group Assignment
By Geremew T: Course Instructor
Maximum Mark: 30%
Submission Date: Oct. 17, 2014 (Right Before the final exam)
Attempt all questions thoroughly:
1. Thesedays, the major challenges for Operations Manager are found to be discharging
Corporate Social Responsibility, rate of Globalization and Environment protection.
Explain how these factors influence the effort of Operations function.
2. How does aggregate planning in service differ from aggregate planning in
manufacturing? Explain with the use of practical example.
3. Discuss the arguments of classical school of thought and its behavioral counterpart and
their differential implication on job design.
4. Discuss the role of Materials Requirement Planning (MRP); Enterprise Resource
planning (ERP) and (Just-in-time) JIT in lean production system development and
management
5. For the set of tasks given below, do the following:
A. Develop the precedence diagram
B. Determine the maximum cycle time in seconds for a desired output of 500 units in a
7-hour day. Why might a manager use a cycle time of 50 seconds?
C. Determine the minimum number of work stations for output of 500 units per day
D. Balance the line using the largest positional weight heuristics. Break ties with the
most following heuristics. Use a cycle time of 50 seconds.
E. Calculate the percentage idle time for the line.

Task Task time in Immediate


sec. predecessor
A 45 -
B 11 A
C 9 B
D 50 -
E 26 D
F 11 E
G 12 C
H 10 C
I 9 E,G,H
J 10 I
Sum 193
6. The times required to complete each eight jobs on two machines are shown in the table
below: Each job must follow the same sequence beginning with machine A and moving to
machine B.
A. Determine a sequence that minimize makes pan time
B. Construct a chart of the resulting sequence and find machine B’s idle time.
C. For the sequence determined in part A, how much would machine B’s idle time be
reduced by splitting the last two jobs in half?

Time (Hours)
Jobs Machine A Machine B
A 16 5
B 3 13
C 9 6
D 8 7
E 2 14
F 12 4
G 18 14
H 20 11

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