Lillian Fok is president of Lakefront Manufacturing, a producer of bicycle tires. Fok makes 1,000 tires per day with the following resources:

Resources	Amount
Labor	400 hours per day @ $12.50 per hour
Raw material:	20,000 pounds per day @$1 per pound
Energy:	$5,000 per day
Capital cost	$10,000 per day

What is the labor productivity per labor-hour for these tires at Lakefront Manufacturing?

As part of a study for the Department of Labor Statistics, you are assigned the task of evaluating the improvement in productivity of small businesses. Data for one of the small businesses you are to evaluate are shown at right. The data are the monthly average of last year and the monthly average this year. Determine the multifactor productivity with dollars as the common denominator for this year.

Hokey Min's Kleen Karpet cleaned 65 rugs in October, consuming the following resources:

What is the multifactor productivity?

George Kyparisis makes bowling balls in his Miami plant. With recent increases in his costs, he has a newfound interest in efficiency. George is interested in determining the productivity of his organization. He would like to know if his organization is maintaining the manufacturing average of 3% increase in productivity per year? He has the following data representing a month from last year and an equivalent month this year:

Brown's, a local bakery, is worried about increased costs - particularly energy. Last year's records can provide a fairly good estimate of the parameters for this year. Wende Brown, the owner, does not believe things have changed much, but she did invest an additional $\$ 3,000$ for modifications to the bakery's ovens to make them more energy efficient. The modifications were supposed to make the ovens at least $15 \%$ more efficient. Brown has asked you to check the energy savings of the new ovens and also to look over other measures of the bakery's productivity to see if the modifications were beneficial. You have the following data to work with:

Hokey Min's Kleen Karpet cleaned 65 rugs in October, consuming the following resources:

What is the multifactor productivity?

Lori Cook produces "Final Exam Care Packages" for resale by her sorority. She is currently working a total of 5 hours per day to produce 100 care packages. Lori thinks that by redesigning the package, she can increase her total productivity to 133 care packages per day. What will be her new productivity?

Ron Satterfield's excavation company uses both Gantt scheduling charts and Gantt load charts. Ron now wants to use a Gantt load chart to see how much work is scheduled in each of his three work teams: Able, Baker, and Charlie. Five jobs constitute the current workload for these three work teams: Job #250, requiring 48 hours and #275$ requiring 32 hours for Work Team Able; Jobs #210 and #280, requiring 16 and 24 hours, respectively, for Team Baker; and Job #225, requiring 40 hours, for Team Charlie. Prepare the Gantt load chart for these activities.

Karl Knapps, Inc., has received the following orders

The entire fabrication for these units is scheduled on one machine. There are 2,250 usable minutes in a week, and each unit will take 65 minutes to complete. Develop a capacity plan, using lot splitting, for the 10 -week time period.

Explain purpose of project organization.

What are some of the questions that can be answered with PERT and CPM?

Coleman Rich, Ltd., has received the following orders:

The entire fabrication for these units is scheduled on one machine. There are 2,250 usable minutes in a week, and each unit will take 65 minutes to complete. Develop a capacity plan, using lot splitting, for the 10 -week time period.

What do you recommend be done when an error is found in a pack as it is opened for an operation?

What are the three phases involved in the management of a large project?