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Question 1 Adelaide produces "Final Exam Care Packages" for resale. She is currently working a total of five hours per day to produce 100 care packages. a) What is Adelaide's productivity? Adelaide thinks that by redesigning the package, she can increase her total productivity to 133 care packages per day. b) What will be her new productivity? c) What will be the percentage increase in productivity if Aditi makes the change? Question 2 Punjab Performance Auto, Inc., modifies 375 autos per year. The manager, Peter Lok, is interested in obtaining a measure of overall performance. He has asked you to provide him with a multifactor measure of last year's performance as a benchmark for future comparison. You have assembled the following data. Resource inputs were: labour, 10 000 hours; 500 suspension and engine modification kits; and energy, 100 000 kilowatt-hours. Average labour cost last year was $20 per hour, kits cost S1000 cach, and energy costs were $3 per kilowatt-hour. What do you Peter Lok? Question 3 Nadia Attired runs a small job shop where garments are made. The job shop employs eight workers. Each worker is paid $10 per hour. During the first week of March, each worker worked 45 hours. Together, they produced a batch of 132 garments. Of these garments, 52 were "seconds" (meaning that they were flawed). The seconds were sold for $90 each at a factory outlet store. The remaining 80 garments were sold to retail outlets at a price of $198 per garment. What was the labour productivity, in dollars per labour-hour, at this job shop during the first week of March? Question 4 Identify how changes within an organization affect the OM strategy for a company. For instance, discuss what impact the following internal factors might have on OM strategy: Maturing of a product. Technological innovation in the manufacturing process. Changes in laptop computer design that builds in wireless technology. PART 2-UNIT 2- Project Management Question 5. Task time estimates for a production line setup project at Kitimat LPG factory are as follows:

Answer 1

Dear student, only one question is allowed at a time. I am answering the first question

1)

a)

Productivity

= Number of units produced / Hours spent

= 100 / 5

= 20 care packages per hour

b)

New Productivity as per above equation

= 133 / 5

= 26.6 care packages per hour

c)

Percentage Increase in productivity

= ( New – Old ) / Old x 100

= ( 26.6 – 20 ) / 20 x 100

= 6.6 / 20 x 100

= 33%