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    Group 12 is studying a capacity problem facing Kleanex, a company that develops and markets services, products, and systems to hotels, hospitals, food industries, and others. Kleanex's current capacity is 100 tons per month but it only produces 60-70 tons due to bottlenecks caused by its floor layout. The group will collect electronic cost and layout data from Kleanex along with field study data on worker times and space requirements. They will apply decision and payoff matrices to evaluate alternatives like adding a floor, redesigning the current layout, or constructing a separate warehouse to address Kleanex's goal of increasing capacity to 300 tons in the future.

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    Group 12 is studying a capacity problem facing Kleanex, a company that develops and markets services, products, and systems to hotels, hospitals, food industries, and others. Kleanex's current capacity is 100 tons per month but it only produces 60-70 tons due to bottlenecks caused by its floor layout. The group will collect electronic cost and layout data from Kleanex along with field study data on worker times and space requirements. They will apply decision and payoff matrices to evaluate alternatives like adding a floor, redesigning the current layout, or constructing a separate warehouse to address Kleanex's goal of increasing capacity to 300 tons in the future.

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    Group 12 is studying a capacity problem facing Kleanex, a company that develops and markets services, products, and systems to hotels, hospitals, food industries, and others. Kleanex's current capacity is 100 tons per month but it only produces 60-70 tons due to bottlenecks caused by its floor layout. The group will collect electronic cost and layout data from Kleanex along with field study data on worker times and space requirements. They will apply decision and payoff matrices to evaluate alternatives like adding a floor, redesigning the current layout, or constructing a separate warehouse to address Kleanex's goal of increasing capacity to 300 tons in the future.

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    DISC 212 Project Proposal

    Project Proposal
    Please fill out the following information and upload the document
    on LMS by midnight tomorrow (Friday, March 21, 2014). ONE
    submission from each group is required. Failure to submit the
    proposal by the deadline will result in 20% grade reduction on
    your project.

    Group Number 12
    Name
    Areesha
    Minahil
    Osama
    Ramsha
    Usman

    Roll No.

    1. Briefly describe the problem you are going to study. Your description should include the
    name of the company as well as a brief description of their business.
    Kleanex aims to be a leading developer and marketer of services, products
    and systems. The customers included most chain hotels, hospitals, food
    industries, food packaging companies, clubs, restaurants and janitorial
    service providers.
    One of the challenges Kleneax is facing is failure to meet its capacity. Its
    Current capacity is 100 tons per months, but the company only produces 6070 tons, floor layout creates a bottleneck to meet its capacity. Moreover,
    capacity of 300 tons is targeted in the near future.

    2. What data will you require to study this problem? How are you going to collect the data?
    One of our group members contacted the company and they are willing to give us
    electronic data of their cost structure of constructing a new floor and the warehouse. The
    layout of the floor also has been provided. Besides that field study would be conducted to
    get information regarding how much time does each worker takes to transfer one product
    from one place to another and the area required by each worker.
    3. What modeling technique(s) (that you have learned in this course) will you apply to study
    the problem(s) stated in bullet 1 above?
    We will be using different alternatives which can be evaluated via decision and pay-off
    matrices and then after the evaluation we can give a better idea to which alternative
    should be considered in order to increase the output. These alternatives include adding
    another floor. Secondly, the current floor layout can be re-designed in a manner which
    smoothens the flow of work and maximizes output. Thirdly, there is about 5,000 square
    ft. of free space. A separate warehouse can be constructed whereby the raw materials will
    be placed separately in the warehouse. This will allow the company to utilize its

    DISC 212 Project Proposal

    production unit more efficiently by adding more production vessels and eventually
    increasing output.

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