PART 1 Project Description: Your company develops and manufactures conveyor belts. Recently‚ you experienced a 15% drop in sales revenue due mostly to increased market encroachment from your main competitor who recently promoted a program to heavily discount traditional belt driven conveyors. To increase revenues‚ your company has decided to develop a computer –controlled conveyor belt and you have been asked to be the project manager for this project. This new conveyor belt will move and position
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Does this information (WBS) allow you to define any milestones of the project? Why or why not? What are they? The information that provided in part 1 alone is not enough to allow the project team in defining any milestones of the project. Actually the hierarchical breakdown of the activity can be designed out of this information but for defining milestones; the project team may well require the following: * Duration of Activity/Activities/Group of Activities that is the time allocated to each
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Nuclear energy has persisted to be an especially controversial topic due to issues concerning safety‚ efficiency‚ and cost. The very word‚ “nuclear” prompts the public to think of nuclear bombs. However‚ it may be possible for nuclear energy to be a feasible substitute to our existing energy sources. Positive Aspects of Nuclear Power There are numerous advantages of nuclear power; the purity of the energy manufacturing process is one of them. While nuclear energy is not pollutant free‚ it also
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This homework continues the Conveyor Belt project from part 4 from the last homework to Part 5. In the last homework assignment‚ you learnt how to expedite the project and how to produce a cash flow report. At the end of Part 4‚ you finalized the schedule for the project. You are now ready to execute the project. When you are ready to begin executing the project‚ you have to first set the finalized schedule as the baseline for the project. Once the execution has begun‚ you will measure the actual
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file from Part 5 to complete Part 6. Use the revised data below and save as a new MS project file title Conveyor Belt Project Part 6 and answer the questions below: Part 6 You have received revised estimates for the remaining activities at the end of the fourth quarter: -Prototypes will be completed on 3/8/11 -Serial I/O drivers will be completed on 6/30/11 -System hardware/software test will start on 7/11/11 and take 25 days -Order circuit boards will start on 8/8/11 and take 5 days -Assemble
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Belt conveyor‚ also called continuity conveyor‚ is a kind of machinery transporting materials in a certain line continuously. Its transmission line is generally constant‚ and able to take horizontal or tilting transmission as well as form space transmission lines. The machine has a great transmission capacity and long distance‚ which can also achieve some process operations simultaneously. Belt conveyor made by our company has the advantages of large transportation amount‚ simple structure‚ convenient
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Edition‚ John Wiley & Sons‚ New York‚ 1997 4 5. Risk and Decision Analysis in Projects‚ John Schuyler‚ Project Management Institute‚ 2001. 7. Project Management Case Studies‚ Kerzner‚ H..‚ John Wiley & Sons‚ Inc.‚ Hoboken‚ New Jersey‚ 2003. 8. The Fast Forward MBA in Project Management‚ Second Edition‚ Verzuh‚ Eric‚ John Wiley & Sons Inc.‚ Hoboken‚ New Jersey‚ 2005. 9. Meredith‚ Jack R.‚ Mantel Jr.‚ Samuel J.‚ Project Management A MANAGERIAL APPROACH‚ 6 ed.‚ John Wiley & Sons‚ Inc.‚ 2006. 10. Nicholas
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and treatment: common belt convey is consist of conveying belt‚ roller‚ expansion cylinder‚ driving‚ braking‚ tensioning‚ modification‚ loading‚ unloading and cleaning device. One‚ the most common fault: belt conveyor is running deviation. Point to solve such fault is to keep installation size precision and routine maintenance. There is a variety of reasons for deviation‚ we should adopt different treatments to the different causes. First‚ adjust the carrying idlers if belt deviates in central roller
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Conveyor Belt 3 Part A – WRITE THIS AS A MEMO 1. Which if any of the resources are overallocated? a. Design‚ Development‚ and Documentation are overallocated i. Design 1. 5 weeks starting Feb 7‚2010 by one person ii. Development 1. Feb 8th until July 3rd‚ 2010 by 4 people iii. Documentation 1. March 8th until Mar 12th‚ by 1 person 2. Assume project is time constrained. Try to solve with leveling within slack. What happens? a. When leveling within slack‚ we clear up most problems. However‚ Development
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CONVEYOR BELT SYSTEM WITH ACCIDENT PREVENTER Introduction A conveyor system is a common piece of mechanical handling equipment that moves materials from one location to another. Conveyors are especially useful in applications involving the transportation of heavy or bulky materials. Conveyor systems allow quick and efficient transportation for a wide variety of materials‚ which make them very popular in the material handling and packaging industries. Many kinds of conveying systems are available
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