Littlefield Technologies

A Brief Overview

Your Job Shop:

Four steps at three stations

1) Board Stuffing
Step 1 components are
mounted onto circuit
boards

2) Testing
Steps 2 & 4 product is
tested (no failed tests)

3) Tuning
Step 3 components are
fine tuned to receive
satellite signals

Capacity Costs
Station #1
BOARD STUFFING MACHINES

$90,000 each
Station #2
TESTING MACHINES

$80,000 each
Station #3
TUNING MACHINES

$100,000 each
Resale value for any machine
$10,000 each

Factory Process
Every step has its own process time
= lot setup time + unit time * lot
size
Littlefield measures average daily
utilization rates at each station
Queues hold waiting jobs
The factory holds a maximum WIP of
100 orders
lead time = process time + wait
time

Orders and Kits

Each arriving customer order represents a lot of
60 DSS receivers
raw materials are also purchased in lots of 60 raw
kits
each new DSS receiver needs a kit of raw materials
each kit costs $10 ($600 per lot)
each shipment has a fixed ordering cost = $1,000
suppliers lead time is always 4 days

Three criteria to place an order:

1) Inventory on-hand is lower than the reorder point
2) There are no shipments of materials in transit
3) Cash on hand is sufficient for the order quantity

Contract Pricing
< 24 hours =
$1000
> 72 hours = zero
* Factory must still
purchase inventory
for orders earning
zero revenue !

Contract Pricing
Three contracts to
< 24
hours =
choose
from
$1000lead time = 7
1) quoted
days,
max
lead=
time
=
> 72
hours
zero
14 days, price = $750
2) quoted lead time = 1
*day,
Factory
must
still=
max lead
time
3 purchase
days, priceinventory
= $1000
(pictured
here)
for orders

earning
3) quoted
lead time != 12
zero
revenue
An example using Contract 2

hours, max lead time

24 hours = $1000 72 hours = zero
= 24 hours, price =
* Factory must still purchase inventory for orders earning zero revenue
$1250
!

Team Registration

http://lab.responsive.net/lt/yourpath/start.html

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Enter special code

Click OK

Enter team name

* All lower case letters or numbe

* No punctuation or spaces
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Enter team password

* All lower case letters or numbers
* No punctuation or spaces

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Re-enter teams passwo

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Click Submit

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Enter students names

* Caps and spaces are OK
* Please NO apostrophes!
Hannah Lisker
Charlie Wong
Shane
OBrien

example

Hannah Lisker
Charlie Wong
Shane OBrien

Click Submit

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Logging Into Your Factory

http://lab.responsive.net/lt/yourpath/entry.html

Enter team name

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Enter teams password

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Click
OK

Explore Your Factory

Download Data
Click download button
Save to desktop
Open with MS Excel or
another spreadsheet
application
Copy > Paste data
columns to a master
worksheet
Index by Day

Key Hints
Forecasts estimate future outcomes
They are not known for precision
A prediction interval should be considered

Arrival Rate * Process

Expected Utilization =
Time
# of Machines

Good Luck!