Operations Management
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Author: HEIZER, Jay, RENDER, Barry, Munson, Chuck
Publisher: Pearson,
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Chapter 17, Problem 1.2VC
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Company F is the multi-billion-dollar subsidiary of Company P. Company F avoids costly downtime with the preventive maintenance of equipment. According to Person T, who is the vice president of Company F in City F, one percent of downtime would result in negative annual profit impact of $200,000. However, they are successful in maintaining less downtime than the excellent benchmark.
They utilize energy efficiency. This is all because of the effective maintenance department, which perform actively. “Run Right” is the method that teaches, “identify and do” to employees that is the part of Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) program.
To determine: The advantages and disadvantages of giving more responsibility to operator for machine maintenance.
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