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Using WinQSB with Operations Management by Reid and Sanders
Chapter 1: Introduction to Operations Management
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Chapter 2: Operations Strategy and Competitiveness
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Chapter 3: Product Design and Process Selection
No application
Chapter 4: Supply chain Management
No application
Chapter 5: Total Quality Management
No application. See chapter 6 for the use of WinQSB in quality management and
control.
Chapter 6: Statistical Quality Control
WinQSB module Quality Control Charts can be used to produce the x-bar charts,
R charts, P-charts, and c-charts from this chapter. This module can also be used
to determine process capability. The module Acceptance Sampling Analysis can
be used to construct the operating curves and average outgoing quality curves
presented in this chapter.
Chapter 7: Just-In-Time Systems
No application
Chapter 8: Forecasting
WinQSB module Forecasting can be used to do all of the forecasting models
presented in this chapter, although WinQSB uses the Holt-Winters algorithm for
seasonal forecasting rather than the approach shown in the text.
Chapter 9: Capacity Planning and Facility Location
Decision trees for capacity planning (as well as other purposes) can be solved
using the Decision Analysis module of WinQSB. The module Facility Location
and Layout can be used to determine the location of a new facility by the loaddistance model. In addition to the rectilinear distance used in the text, WinQSB
can also solve the problem using the Euclidean Distance or the Squared Euclidean
distance. The transportation method for solving location problems is mentioned
in this chapter although it is explained in more detail in Supplement C. WinQSB
module Network Modeling can be used to solve transportation problems. Factor
rating and the center of gravity method are not implemented in WinQSB.
Chapter 10: Facility Layout
A load distance model for facility layout can be solved using WinQSB module
Facility Location and Layout. In addition to the rectilinear distance used in the
text, WinQSB also can use Euclidean distance or squared Euclidean distance.
The module uses 2-way and 3-way exchange heuristics to solve the layout
problem. The same module can also be used to solve the line balancing problems
presented in the text.
Chapter 11: Work System Design
No application
Chapter 12: Independent Demand Inventory Management
The WinQSB module Inventory Theory and Systems can be used to solve the
EOQ, EOQ with quantity discount, EPQ, and the single period (newsperson)
problems that are presented in this chapter.
Chapter 13: Aggregate Planning
Module Aggregate Planning of WinQSB can be used to solve aggregate planning
problems using the various strategies presented in the text. It can also provide the
optimal solution through a linear programming model.
Chapter 14: Master Scheduling and Rough Cut Capacity Planning
Not applicable. The Master Production Schedule (MPS) is needed for input in the
Material Requirements module used in chapter 15.
Chapter 15: Material Requirements Planning
The WinQSB module Material Requirements Planning can be used to perform the
explosion process in an MRP problem.
Chapter 16: Scheduling
The WinQSB module Job Scheduling has an option to use Johnson’s rule for
scheduling as illustrated in this chapter.
Chapter 17: Project Management
The Project Scheduling: PERT-CPM module of WinQSB can be used to solve
the PERT/CPM models in this chapter. It can also perform crashing analysis and
probabilistic analysis of project completion times. The graphical representation
used by the module is activity on node (AON).
Supplement A: Waiting Line Models
The WinQSB module Queuing Analysis can be used to solve the single server and
multiple server models in the text. Both of models presented in the text are
“simple M/M system” models. The instructor may illustrate other models with
different service time distributions by using the “general queuing system” portion
of this module.
Supplement B: Linear Programming
The WinQSB module Linear and Integer Programming can be used to solve and
perform sensitivity analysis for all of the problems in this Supplement. WinQSB
can also show the results of sensitivity analysis using the graphical method. For
the instructor who teaches the Simplex Method, it is possible to have WinQSB
step through each individual iteration.
Supplement C: Solving Transportation Problems
The Network module of WinQSB can be used to solve transportation problems.
This module will allow one to choose the initial starting method.
Supplement D: Simulation Analysis
The Queuing System Simulation module could be used to illustrate a simulation of
a more complex queuing system than the one presented in the text.