Titlebook: Managing Manufacturing Operations; A Casebook T. A. J. Nicholson Book 1978 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1

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Objectives of the Case Studieson an extensive period of study by the author of policies and practices in the companies concerned. The objective of writing the case studies has been to offer a basic source of information through which the student of management, the practising manager and the interested general reader can develop

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Developing Production Standards: Medina Polymers Plastic Mouldingshe works manager, it has a total of 13 employees. The company was started by John Torrance in 1972 when he bought out Ray Mouldings (a London-based producer of plastic mouldings) for £20,000 with a year’s work outstanding. John Torrance was already running, a rubber moulding business at Shanklin on

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Quoting Delivery Dates: Parsons Peebles Electric Motors. The Edinburgh factory shares some common facilities with the Power Transformer Company which operates on the same site. The manufacture of transformers has many of the characteristics of flow line production, and, although dealing with very large items, control problems in the transformer company

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Determining Stock Levels: Van Heugten Carpet Tilesn buildings. All the carpets are obtained from the Dutch parent company which manufactures the products and distributes worldwide. The British company order their requirements from Holland, stock their products at a warehouse at Ovington in Suffolk, and distribute through a single contracted transpo

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Controlling the Jobbing Shop: Midland Components Machine Shophe total facilities of the Engineering Division consist of the machine shop, a tool shop and a machine erection shop, with various storage points. The turnover of these three shops in 1972 was respectively £1,150,000, £274,000 and £330,000. The machine shop provides the tool shop with pre-cut blanks

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Running Assembly Lines: Smiths Industrieso motor vehicles, locomotives, aerospace and shipping. Although the company has created new divisions for diversification into clocks, watches and more recently into distribution in order to sell directly to the public, the main field for manufacture and marketing continues to be vehicle instrumenta

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Integrating separate processes: English Steel Plate Mill Sheffield area. Vincent sets broad guidelines for the operations at each plant, fixes the sources of supply, and puts targets on stock turnover levels, delivery performance, and utilisation, while ‘line’ (equipment and running) responsibilities remain under individual plant managers. As Ron Vincent

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Managing Sales Variations: Adams Ice Creamproduce approximately 80 per cent of the total ice-cream consumed in the United Kingdom, the remaining 20 per cent being produced by about 200 smaller firms also in the market. The company is part of the International Foods group and is therefore in a strong marketing and financial position. It has