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How Operations Management Topics
Support US Students’ Career Goals
--Beth E Ellington, Samuel K Formby, Dinesh S Dave and Sarah E Miller
Production and Operations Management (POM) is a required business course offered at almost all business schools accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) in the US. As a core curriculum requirement, all business majors must take this course for graduation. The purpose of this study is to gain insight on how a POM course can be designed to cover topics that best serve Marketing majors, Business Management majors, Accounting majors, and Supply Chain Management minors, and also how the knowledge of POM topics could better enable students to accomplish their professional goals. The findings of the study may be used to help customize the curriculum of the POM course to better equip students with the knowledge, skills and abilities needed for success in their chosen careers. © 2014 IUP. All Rights Reserved.
Supply and Operations Responsiveness
in the Indian Garments Industry
--Anupam Ghosh
Supply and operations responsiveness plays a vital role in any industry. The Indian garment industry, also known as textile and apparel industry, caters to the needs of 1.27 billion population through supply of varied types of dress material—from daily use to fashion-wear. This paper considers the case of babies’ dress material and gives a brief description of the system of manufacturing and the role that responsiveness plays in this segment. A simulation study was conducted to explain responsiveness issues in the operations process in this industry segment. © 2014 IUP. All Rights Reserved.
On Developing a Microsoft Excel
Add-In for Drawing Control Charts
--Chayan Paul and Dibyojyoti Bhattacharjee
Variations in finished products in a manufacturing process are inevitable. It remains in the products even after every effort is made to get rid of it. Thus, variation, to a certain level, is allowed to remain in the system. However, this can be minimized by learning the causes. Control charts are the graphical tools to determine the variations that are present in the product. Microsoft Excel, one of the popular spread sheet programs for data analysis, does not have any option to draw control charts directly. However, it can be drawn following some complex steps and making some adjustments in the in-built graphs of Microsoft Excel. This paper introduces an Excel Add-In program, developed using Visual Basic for Application, for drawing control charts. One can draw control charts directly using this Add-In. This Add-In shall be useful in the field of production and manufacturing for detection of variations during the process of manufacturing products. © 2014 IUP. All Rights Reserved.
Improving the Overall Equipment Effectiveness of a Machine:
Case of a Float Glass Manufacturer in India
--Sumeet Singh Jasial, S S Pal and Vinayak Thakur
Constant upgradation is the key to survival for any industry in the present competitive and challenging environment. Gold Plus Group, apart from being the first wholly owned Indian group to manufacture float glass, is also known for being a benchmark of quality. This study highlights the major issues that are needed to be studied in order to increase the overall equipment effectiveness of a machine. Besides, how the root cause of the problems should be identified and how to get to the actual root cause through why-why analysis has been presented in this study. © 2014 IUP. All Rights Reserved.
Research Note
ATM Usage Price in India
--Sunita Kumar and Shiv Onkar Deepak Kumar |
