MEM575: Group assignment– Industrial applications of operations management

techniques.

Objective: To expose students to the practical applications of the operations management

techniques studied in class.

Task:
Write a report based on the following task:

All the operations management techniques that you have studied in this course from the
10 chapters that you have learnt. Show (analyze and explain with appropriate illustrations
(diagrams/photos/figures, etc.)) how the techniques are applied in practice in the
company/industry of your choice. Choose only 1 company. You can get this information
from actual company/industry visit (you need to properly acknowledge all the references
that you use in your report).
Chapter 1: Introduction Find out the operations
management model for the
company
The organization chart of
the company
Their products/services
Chapter 2: Forecasting How the company forecast
their business?
Chapter 3: Plant Location How does the company
choose the location?
Chapter 4: Plant Layout How does the company do
the layout?
Chapter 5: Human Resource How does the company Write on your observations
and Job Design manage the Human about the company.
Resource and Job Design? Propose improvement
Chapter 6: Procurement & How does the company suggestions in the report.
Inventory control manage the Procurement &
Inventory control
Chapter 7: Production How does the company
Planning and Control manage the Production
Planning and Control
Chapter 8: Project How does the company
Management manage the Project
Management
Chapter 9: Quality How does the company
Management and Control manage the Quality
Management and Control
Chapter 10: Maintenance How does the company
Management manage the Maintenance
Management

Guidelines:
Length of the report: The write-up must be 1800 word ± 200 words. Please use Word’s
Word Count and show the total number of words at the end of the write-up. This is
equivalent to 4 or 5 pages long (excluding title page, illustrations, Appendix (if any),
etc.). Note that the total number of pages must be 10 or less.

Font: Times New Roman size 12 }

Line spacing: One and a half (1½) } i.e. similar to this document.
Margin: Justified. }
Due: On the final day of MEM575.