BUS 5112

Operation Management
Term 7, 2021-2022
UNIVERSITY OF THE
PEOPLE PROJECT

Renewable Energy: Wind power turbines for

local farmers in three south Asian countries

INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Tokunbo Osinubi

GROUP 0007C
1. Lim Dalis
2. Muhammad W. Siddiqui
3. Konan R. Kouakou
4. Anzelika Melnikova
•Climate Change and shortage of renewable
energy

•In late 20th century-Revolutionary in wind Background

energy

•Role of wind energy-green energy, low cost,

and leverage farmers from poverty.

•Barriers: geographical, technology, and energy

market.

Figure1: The First Commercial Wind Power Generation is Build in Indonesia

(Rifka, 2018)
 •Text in key bullet points with APA citations:
- Product or service: what product or service has the team has chosen?
- Market and customer: what is the estimated size of the market/customer base
for your product/service market and what are the customer drivers (order
winning and qualifying factors)?
- Process Type: what type of manufacturing or service process do you consider
most appropriate?
•Layout Type: what type of layout do you consider most appropriate?
•Facility Location: what location do you consider adequate for the facilities where
the product or service is performed?

•Figure (please add if possible)

Contextual Construct

Wind Energy and Process Design
Process Technology- Both "wind energy" and "wind power" refer
to the process of using the wind to generate mechanical or
electrical energy. This mechanical energy can be used for specific
tasks (such as grinding grain or pumping water) or transformed
into electricity via a generator (Wind Energy Technologies Office,
n.d).
•Product / Service and Process Design- When thinking about the
design process and our product, it is necessary to analyze
different types of renewable energy, and which one suits
customers’ needs and our resources the best. These actions will
best comply with idea generation as research and development
functions (James, 2011).
•Work and Job Design- One of the most important stages in our
project is the development of the wind turbines and their setup.
After they are created, maintenance and overall monitoring are
required. Skill variety is compulsory in a project like this, as
employees must understand the whole concept of the wind
turbines, be able to read the drawings and designs, and then
physically work on its establishment.
•Figure (please add if possible)
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Planning & Control
According to James (2011), planning and control is the reconciliation of demand and supply to
determine the timing of initial as well as alternative actions in the future. Control is when the
operation is going on, determining what action to take if there is a significant deviation from what
should be happening.

•Time Horizon- For our wind turbine, medium-term operations planning will be used, as it is more
suitable for batch production which lasts from 1 to 18 months as customer preferences change over
time.
•Planning-Make-to-Stock is best suited for wind turbines as demand is unpredictable
and we will have to rely on demand forecasts. If demand is unpredictable, the
organization will use of make-to-stock planning policy which produces a forecast of
demand for the product. (James, 2011).
•Market requirements-High Quantity / Low Variety - due to the short search time, this is a
larger production than the limited quantity, but ideally, it will be a "series" production.
•Action planning-Batch processing planning will be used in conjunction with the
Manufacturing Requirements Planning (MRP) approach to establish the batch size and
Planning and Control work time to create a basic production schedule that will match expected demands.
•Expediting-These manufacturing processes will be outsourced. But if they are made
locally, lack of materials, damage to equipment and lack of staff can lead to scheduling
problems (James, 2011).
 •Inventory can be a major cost to the organization (James,
2011).

•Several elections in terms of inventory management-

centralization level, classification, models, and
implementation

Local operation offices

Inventory Management
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Local communities

Figure2: Centralization to manage operations and inventory

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 •What considerations in terms of lean
operations (waste minimization, people
involvement, continuous improvement, push
vs. pull systems, set up reduction and total
productive maintenance) do you consider
Lean Operations relevant for the product or service chosen?
 •What considerations in terms of Business
Process Re-engineering do you consider
relevant for enabling significant improvements
for the product or service chosen?

Business Process Re-engineering

 Agile operations- Agile operations aim to respond quickly to
market demand in order to retain current markets and gain
new market share. As a strategy agile operations can be sen to
embrace uncertainty in markets and achieve competitive
advantage by the fleibility and speed of their response to
them. James, T. (2011).
• the pull system, as wind power fluctuate over time, basically
under the influence of meteorological conditions. Variations
occurs at several scales: seconds (e.g. gusts), hours (e.g. day
and night), months (e.g. summer and winder) and so on. The
electricity demand as well is highly variable, changing not
Agile Operations only with well-known seasonal and night/day patterns but
also incorporating several other variables such as the
economic cycles.(Francesco Miceli, 2016).
• TPM is a lean manufacturing philosophy that centres on
achieving near-perfect production. The aims of TPM are high:
no breakdowns, no small stops or slow running, no defects,
and no accidents. It emphasises proactive and preventative
maintenance to maximise the lifespan and productivity of
equipment. And it does this by empowering all employees to
take responsibility for such equipment. Peter
Thompson(july,2019).
• The ultimate goal of manufacturing continuous improvement is to
have efficient production that is free of waste, unscheduled
disruptions, and superfluous actions. As a result, optimal
automation and standardization will be achieved. Ali
Raza( august,2020)
 •What considerations in terms of Enterprise
Resource Planning do you consider relevant for
the product or service chosen?

Enterprise Resource Planning

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