Using the project planning data from the FPDS, develop a plan that shows what car projects will be happening during first the week of January each year

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• Operation Management
• Q1.Where are they located? What kind of customers
  they intend to serve?
• Q2.Do they serve you while you are standing or do
  they first seat you? How big is their seating
  capacity?
• Q3.How do they take orders?
• Q4.What is the process of communicating your
  orders to the others working in the outlet so
  that you can be served?
• Q5.Are the items prepared after taking your order
  or are they already prepared?

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• Q6.Do they allow any customization in your order
  or is it one standard order?
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• Q7.Do they take large orders for, say, parties?
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• Q8.What parts of their processes are visible to
  you?
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• Q9.How do they handle any quality issues which
  might prop up?
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• Q10.Are employees doing skilled work? What kind
  of job allocation is visible to you?
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• Q11.What is the extent of automation? What work
  is being done manually? What is automated?
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• Q12.After completing your meals, what is the
  process of clearing the table? What could be to
  motivation behind designing such a process?
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• Q13.Do the same kind of operational comparisons
  for different grocery stores, movie theaters. Car
  service centers, banks, etc., and see if their
  operational design gels with the kind of
  customers they want to serve.

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• Q14.Using the project planning data from the
  FPDS, develop a plan that shows what car projects
  will be happening during the first week of
  January each year. Assume that the launch date
  for new models is the first week of August (week
  33) each year. Also, assume that the division
  operates only 50 weeks each year (the division is
  idle during Christmas and New Years each year).
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• Q15.How are these data useful to the Thunderbird
  team?
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• Q16.What additional data would be useful to the
  team? How would these data be used

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• Q17.Given the very dynamic nature of the luxury
  automobile market, and the complex engineering
  and design issues associated with building new
  cars, what would you consider the most important
  features of a product development system for the
  Thunderbird product planning group?

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