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OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
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Assembly Line Balancing at Overland Tourister
AUTHOR(S) : R. Muthukumar and Dr. Nagendra V. ChowdaryPUBLISHED DATE: 13/09/2014PUBLISHER: ET CasesCATEGORY: OPERATIONS MANAGEMENTPRODUCT: CASELETCASE ID: OM-2-0006, OM-2-0006ACASE LENGTH: 1 pageDESCRIPTION:read more
This caselet facilitates understanding the concept and importance of Assembly Line Balancing with the backdrop of a Chennai-based shoe manufacturer, Overland Tourister (Overland). With its promotional activities, Overland bagged a plum deal for 60,000 running shoes. Rajesh Pillai (Rajesh), Founder, was apprehensive if the company would be able to manage bulk orders without any hiccups. Can Assembly Line Balancing ensure smooth operations at Overland?
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Keshav Motors: Process Analysis
AUTHOR(S) : R. Muthukumar and Dr. Nagendra V. ChowdaryPUBLISHED DATE: 13/09/2014PUBLISHER: ET CasesCATEGORY: OPERATIONS MANAGEMENTPRODUCT: CASELETCASE ID: OM-2-0005, OM-2-0005ACASE LENGTH: 1 pageDESCRIPTION:read more
Keshav Motors is a Bangalore-based manufacturer of electric bikes established by S. Keshav (Keshav) in 2013. In order to identify the bottleneck in the assembly process activity, Keshav decided to analyze the process design aspects with the help of assembly chart and flow diagram. This caselet can be used in Operations Management course and enables to analyze a process.
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This case study helps students to understand: Process analysis using Process Chart Measuring ...SHOW DETAILS