ISE 4204 Assignment 1 Feng Jiao 09/12/2014 1. The difference of quality standards referred to Geo and the Ferrari: The word “quality” means different things in different contexts. Both Geo and Ferrari are quality product. However, the two products are in different markets, consumers buying these products are both looking for quality cars but have fundamentally different objectives. One objective is low price, another one is high performance. So the differences between two companies are: The Geo’s goal is to produce products with basic functions at low cost. On the other hand, Ferrari is try to achieve the high performance regardless the cost. 2. The “Time-based competition” means competitors focus on the bigger picture, on the entire value-delivery system. Competitors attempt to transform an entire organization into one focused on the total time required to deliver a product or service. The goal is not to devise the best way to perform a task, but to either eliminate the task altogether or perform it parallel with other task so that over-all system response time is reduced. IPhone (Apple Company) is a product that I purchased that was introduced to the marketplace ahead of its competitors. As a cell phone company, it makes everyone curious what will the next generation of iPhone be. Every year, The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference attracts many and many people to watch. It is introduced to the marketplace ahead than other cell phone companies. 3.So the product 1=928, product 2= 600, the total throughout=$884000. 4. Synchronous manufacturing attempts to synchronize follows 9 rules: Rule 1: Balance product flow, not resource capacity Rule 2: Utilization levels of non-bottlenecks are not determined by potential, but by other constrains in the system.Rule 3: Utilization and activation are not synonymous. Rule 4: An hour lost at a bottle neck is an hour for the whole system. Rule 5: An hour saved at a non-bottleneck is just a mirage. Rule 6: Bottlenecks govern throughput and inventory. Rule 7: Transfer batch may not be equal to process batch Rule 8: Process batch can be variable and not fixed. Rule 9: Schedules should be established by looking at all the constraints simultaneously. Synchronous manufacturing approach use both forward and backward scheduling but focuses on the critical resources. 5. With synchronous manufacturing, a control point is identified to control the flow of products through the system. This control point is called the “drum”, because it strikes the beat that the system uses to function. The bottleneck (drum) needs to be 100% utilized, so a buffer ensures it can never run out of inventory in front of it. The drum must communicate back upstream what D has produced so that A provides only that amount. This keeps inventory from building up. The communication is called the rope. (See the graph