15.763  Manufacturing Systems and Supply Chain Design (H2)

Today in class, Sean announced that the Google case grade can be made optional by sending us an email. In order to treat everyone fairly, if you handed in the assignment, the grade on this case will be given as the maximum of your previous average and your grade on the case itself. No email is required.

Also, we have finished grading for the following assignments: FlexCap, Strategic Inventory, Opt Game, Seagate, Line Design, and Sourcing. If you do not see a grade for these and are taking the class for credit, please contact us to discuss alternatives. The remaining assignments will be graded shortly, if you do not see a grade for these there is no cause for worry.

A number of students have been asking for clarification for part 3 of the queueing system assignment. After exploring the relationships in part 2 you should have an idea of some different feasible configuration patterns (e.g. some of these variables higher than the base case, some of these variables lower). So for 2-3 of these patterns that you have identified, we'd like to see some analysis about how this can affect the minimum buffer size required.

Hi all,

I posted an optional reading (Chapter01) to the Class06 folder.  This same reading was covered in 15.762; I will briefly review it tomorrow in class.

Sean

Hi all,

As specified in the syllabus, we will cover the OPT Game on Monday 4/13 and Seagate on Wednesday 4/15.  These two cases represent very different types of capacity problems.  OPT is a detailed operational scheduling problem.  Seagate is an annual strategic capacity planning problem. 

For OPT, at the start of class be prepared to hand in:

In half a page (or less), submit your ending cash position and a description of your strategy.

For Seagate, at the start of class be prepared to hand in:

In half a page or less, submit (1) your capacity plan for Barracuda, Cheetah and Test (2) the metric you feel best reflects your performance; name the metric and report the value achieved (3) briefly describe your strategy

Please bring a computer to Monday's class.  We might need it.

See you on Monday,
Sean

Class,

We are approaching the due date of the first case in which you will need your work with a team of 3-4 people, and we would like to give you all the opportunity to form your own teams. Once you have assembled a team, please delegate one member to submit your names and email addresses through the form below. Note that these teams are expected to work together for all cases in this course.

http://goo.gl/forms/QPiaQStiJq

If you are looking for a team or teammates please enter your name and email in the google doc below, and feel free to communicate with the others listed to set up your team!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1d6IW6OhQQXuWatWvVL8hn6IbOAHEjlirMNVIyt3olME/edit?usp=sharing

Since the first case is due next week please try to have your teams finalized soon. If you have not found a team by the end of the day on Wednesday 4/8, please send me an email and I will attempt to find/form a team for you. This can be a difficult logistical exercise so please try to coordinate for yourselves before then!

Thanks,
Zach