The document outlines two main tasks: creating a flowchart for a pseudocode-based pricing algorithm and designing a program for building a gaming computer. It provides detailed instructions on components like program description, analysis, test plans, and pseudocode, while emphasizing the need for realistic pricing of computer parts. Furthermore, it includes academic assignments related to videos and case studies, requiring students to analyze various operational processes.

1. Question 1
Using Powerpoint, Word, Visio or any other graphical editor
that allows you to create shapes and arrows, create a simple
flow chart that provides the functionality for this pseudocode:
Write “Enter the price in dollars: “
Input Price
Write “Enter state sales tax(e.g. .06) : “
Input SalesTax
Set Price = Price + (Price * SalesTax)
Write “Price with Tax is “ + Price
Also, Provide a test case that you could use to validate your
algorithm. (For example, what values for input would you use
and what would the resulting output be for those input values)
Attach or embed your flow chart along with your test case as a
response to this discussion topic.
Question 2
n everyday life we are all faced with many choices we must
make on a daily basis.
1. Provide an Algorithm for your real world decision you must
make on a daily basis that involves 2 or more choices
2. Provide your C code that implements your real world
decision (be sure to utilize proper formatting and spacing to
enhance your codes clarity, and applicable comments)
3. Explain your logic for the conditional statement you decided
to use
4. Provide feedback to fellow student’s submission that involves
converting their conditional statement to another conditional
statement form
Work- homework
Homework 2
Instructions
In this homework, you will design a program to perform the
following task:

2. Calculate the total price based on several key parts required to
build a state-of-the-art gaming computer. The user will have the
option of selecting different parts. For example, Windows 7,
Windows 8 or Mac OS/X for Operating systems, 4 GB, 8 GB or
12 GB for RAM and 15”,17” or 22” Monitors.
There are 5 components of your submission including:
· Program Description- A detailed, clear description of the
program you are building.
· Analysis- Demonstrates your thought process and steps used to
analyze the problem. Be sure to include the required input and
output and how you will obtain the required output from the
given input? Also, include your variable names and definitions.
Be sure to describe the necessary formulas and sample
calculations that might be needed. You should talk about how
you determined your computer part prices.
· Test plan - Prepare at least 3 sets of input data (Test data)
along with their expected output for testing your program. Your
test data can be presented in the form of a table as follows
(note: feel free to adapt to your design)
· Flowchart – Provide a flowchart for your design. You can use
Word, Powerpoint, Visio or any software you have available
that will allow to draw shapes and connectors.
· Pseudocode- Provide pseudocode of your overall design that
fulfills the requirements of the project
All of these components should be placed in word document for
submission.
Additional details about the program you need to write:
1. You should research current prices of the computer parts on
Internet sites such as amazon.com or newegg.com.
2. You can assume a computer will consist of the following
components:
CPU
Case
Power supply
Motherboard
Hard Drive

3. RAM
DVD
Sound Card
Monitor
Graphics Card
Operating System
I would recommend you keep the option choices limited to 3
different components, or your program will really grow fast. For
example, you could provide options for the Operating System
(Windows 7, Windows 8 or Mac OS/X), the RAM (4 MB, 8 MB,
12 MB) and the Hard Drive Size (500 GB, 1 TB, 1.5 TB) and
leave everything else as a baseline. These are just examples. I
leave it up to you to determine which components you want the
user to select options. Be sure your prices are realistic.
1. There is much flexibility for this project. You should reach a
unique design. I recommend keeping it simple at first and then
add more user options if you have time.
Example application test data:
Test Case #
Input
Expected Output
1
Baseline Cost: $500
CPU Option 1 (2.2 GHz,$400)
Monitor Option 2 (Dell,$200)
RAM Option 1 (4 GB,$89)
(Total price would be $500 + cost of CPU+ cost of Monitor +
Cost of Ram)
Total Price = $1189
2
Your Computer selection options
Your output
3
Your Computer selection options
Your output

4. Submission requirements:
Your completed assignment should be saved as Word document
and submitted to your assignment area no later than the due date
listed in the syllabus. Your document should be neat, well-
written with minimal grammatical and spelling errors. Your
name should be clearly listed on the first page along with the
class/section, professor and due date. Your document should
contain page numbers at the bottom of each page. Single or
double space line formatting is acceptable.
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BA 3653: Assignment #1 (Due: Oct. 20, 2015)
I. General Instructions
1. Each group (or team) consists of 3~4 students (maximum 5
students)
enrolled in the same section. The right table shows the
deduction
percentage for other than 3~4 students in a group.
All the group members will get the same grade. You may use
“Discussions” to find your partners in
the Blackboard.
2. Please read carefully the syllabus to find the detailed
information about
group formation.

5. 3. Please refer to the right figure for the desirable cover page.
4. A late assignment will not be accepted in any excuse. The
answers for
assignment & quiz will be either posted on the D2L or handed
out in
the class. However, the answers for the case study will not be
posted.
Instead, it will be discussed in the class.
II. Questions [Total 100 points]
(Please use your educational guess for incomplete information.)
Q1 (10 points): For the Alton Bridge video
(https://youtu.be/YiDJeSFBtWI), answer the followings:
(a) [3] Draw the process diagram.
(b) [5] What kind of problems happened to delay the
construction? For each problem, describe how
many days delayed and how they solved it.
(c) [2] What were the reasons for successful or failed
operations? Find at least three reasons.
Q2 (12 points): Watch the BMW video
(http://youtu.be/o7XxmbvsfR0).
(a) [2] What would be the ultimate goal in their operation?
(b) [3] What do they provide to customers? Find at least five
benefits from the video. How do these

6. services relate to customers’ expectation (that is, explain them
with Price, Quality, Time &
Variety)?
(c) [3] Draw the flow (or process) chart for a car service (based
on the manager’s explanation).
(d) [2] What do they do to customers and technicians, if the
repair work is not satisfactory?
(e) [2] What would be the result from their excellent
operations?
Q3 (13 points): Read the case of CUSTOM MOLDS, INC. (see
page 4-5 in this document).
(a) [3] What are the major issues facing Tom and Mason Miller?
(b) [5] Identify the individual processes on a flow diagram.
What are the competitive priorities for
these processes and the changing nature of the industry?
(c) [5] What alternatives might the Millers pursue? What key
factors should they consider as they
evaluate these alternatives?
Q4 (10 points): Watch the King Soopers video
(http://youtu.be/nObVu-_Jfqg).
(a) [5] Fill up the blanks below.
# in group Deduction

7. 1 25 %
2 15 %
5 15%
BA3653: HW # 1 (Due: Oct. 20, 2015)
Alex Tender 321234 [email protected]
Chris Soft 332111 [email protected]
Troy Mania 214567 [email protected]
(Give 1” space here for grading)
Q1.
(a) …
(b) …
mailto:[email protected]
mailto:[email protected]
mailto:[email protected]
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Breads Pastry Line Custom decorated Cakes
Process
(by Classification 2)
Equipments
(describe in detail)

8. Easiness to changing
capacity
Skill level of workers
Variety of product
Capacity or volume
mentioned
(b) [3] Draw the process diagram (or flow chart) for Pastry
Line.
(c) [2] Why does King Soopers Bakery use three different
processes?
Q5 (20 points): The layout of a three-stage process consists of
three welding machines in parallel (W1, W2
and W3) at stage 1, a single drill machine (D1) at stage 2 and
two grind machines in parallel (G1 and G2) at
stage 3. The processing times are (where unit is minute): W1: 4,
W2: 6, W3: 6, D1: 2, G1: 3 and G2: 5.
Buffer B1 is between stages 1 and 2 and Buffer B2 is between
stages 2 and 3.
(a) [2] Draw a neat process flow diagram. (It should have the
input arrow and output arrow.)
(b) [2] What is the minimum MLT?
(c) [2] Calculate hourly capacities of each stage.
(d) [2] What is the overall capacity of the process?
(e) [6] Jobs are numbered 1, 2, 3, 4 and so on (at least draw 9
jobs). These jobs are released to W1,
W2 and W3, whenever it’s necessary. Plot a Gantt chart using

9. for you. (You may copy or cut & paste the diagram to your
answer).
4 W1 1 1 1 1
6 W2
6 W3
(B1)
2 D1 1 1
(B2)
3 G1 1 1 1
5 G2
0 2 4 6 8 10 12
14 16 18 20 22 24 26
Parts (f) to (i) are based on schedule described in the above
Gantt chart of part (e). Assume that the
system becomes stable after six jobs.
(f) [1] Say the finished time for Job 1 ~ 6.
(g) [1] From your Gantt chart, what will be the average MLT?
(h) [2] What are the contributions to WIP for resources?
(i) [2] Verify little’s formula.
Q6 (10 points):
(a) [4] Canada Revenue Agency completes 400 projects per
year, on average. In October 2015, it
was reported that the number of projects currently “on their
plate” (i.e. pending at various stages)
is 90. The Agency head claims that the average time to
complete a project is less than three

10. months. Is the estimate of average time to complete a project
realistic? Justify your answer.
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(b) [3] “Inventory Turnover” is defined as the number of times
that a company’s inventory cycles or
turns over per year. Suppose the inventory turnover for HP
Computer was 20 and the average
inventory of the company was $100 million (based on purchase
price). How much “annual” profit
would the company make if they make on an average 2 % profit
on each item sold?
(c) [3] A bank finds that the average number of people waiting
in queue during lunch hour is 15. On
average, during this period 3 people per minute leave the bank
after receiving service. How long
do people spend on average in the bank?
Q7 (25 points): Read the Shouldice Hospital in the “Course
materials”.
(a) [2] Describe its products or services.
(b) [4] Analyze all the costs incurred by customers and compare
them with other competitors in the
following table. Assume the value of time lost to employer
ranged between $50 ~ 300 per day.

11. (c) [3] Research about the profitability of the operations in
Shouldice. Let’s assume that they
performed 7,000 operations in 50 weeks in 1983. (If you use
some assumptions, please specify
them.) [Note: Use the following table.]
(d) [3] What are the competitive advantages in Shouldice? List
at least four competitive edges.
(e) [2] Why is the ratio of nurse to patient low, compared to
other hospitals? Find at least three
reasons.
(f) [3] Show your neat diagram for admission process before
arriving to the hospital.
(g) [3] Analyze Shouldice’s process on the quality factors. (on
slide #6 @ Topic 2)
(h) [5] What kinds of facilities do they have? For each facility,
show the capacity and utilization.
Let’s assume that they performed 7,000 operations in 50 weeks
in 1982. [Hint: Facilities are
exam room, admitting personnel, number of beds, … which
related to process the patients.]
Key Resources Capacity Utilization
1. Exam room 6 rooms * [60/17.5] patient/hr * 2 hrs/day
140/206 = 68%
<6>15~20min * 5 days/wk = 206 patients/wk
2. Admit. Proc.
…

12. …
Shouldice Other Hospitals
1. Cost of typical operation
2. Transportation
3. Value of time lost to employer
(at hospital & while recovering)
4. Subtotal before allowance for recurrence
5. Expected cost of recurrence
6. Total cost
Clinic Hospital
Revenue
Cost
Profit
(sample)
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[CUSTOM MOLDS, INC.]
Custom Molds, Inc., manufactures custom-designed
molds for plastic parts and produces custom-made plastic
connectors for the electronics industry. Located in Tucson,
Arizona, Custom Molds was founded by the father and son
team of Tom and Mason Miller in 1975. Tom Miller, a
mechanical engineer, had more than 20 years of experience
in the connector industry with AMP, Inc., a large
multinational producer of electronic connectors. Mason

13. Miller had graduated from the University of Arizona in
1974 with joint degrees in chemistry and chemical
engineering.
The company was originally formed to provide
manufacturers of electronic connectors with a source of
high quality, custom-designed molds for producing plastic
parts. The market consisted mainly of the product design
and development divisions of those manufacturers. Custom
Molds worked closely with each customer to design and
develop molds to be used in the customer’s product
development processes. Thus, virtually every mold had to
meet exacting standards and was somewhat unique. Orders
for multiple molds would arrive when customers moved
from the design and pilot-run stage of development to
large-scale production of newly designed parts.
As the years went by, Custom Molds’ reputation grew
as a designer and fabricator of precision molds. Building
on this reputation, the Millers decided to expand into the
limited manufacture of plastic parts. Ingredient-mixing
facilities and injection-molding equipment were added,
and by the mid-1980s Custom Molds developed its
reputation to include being a supplier of high-quality
plastic parts. Because of limited capacity, the company
concentrated its sales efforts on supplying parts that were
used in limited quantities for research and development
efforts and in preproduction pilot runs.
PRODUCTION PROCESSES
By 1985, operations at Custom Molds involved two
distinct processes: one for fabricating molds and one for
producing plastic parts. Although different, in many
instances these two processes were linked, as when a

14. customer would have Custom Molds both fabricate a mold
and produce the necessary parts to support the customer’s
R&D efforts. All fabrication and production operations
were housed in a single facility. The layout was
characteristic of a typical job shop, with like processes and
similar equipment grouped in various places in the plant.
Figure C2.1 shows a schematic of the plant floor. Multiple
pieces of various types of high-precision machinery,
including milling, turning, cutting, and drilling equipment,
were located in the mold-fabrication area.
Fabricating molds is a skill-oriented, craftsman-driven
process. When an order is received, a design team,
comprising a design engineer and one of 13 master
machinists, reviews the design specifications. Working
closely with the customer, the team establishes the final
specifications for the mold and gives them to the master
machinist for fabrication. It is always the same machinist
who was assigned to the design team. At the same time,
the purchasing department is given a copy of the design
specifications, from which it orders the appropriate raw
materials and special tooling. The time needed to receive
the ordered materials is usually three to four weeks. When
the materials are received for a particular mold, the plant
master scheduler reviews the workload of the assigned
master machinist and schedules the mold for fabrication.
Fabricating a mold takes from two to four weeks,
depending on the amount of work the machinist already
has scheduled. The fabrication process itself takes only
three to five days. Upon completion, the mold is sent to the
testing and inspection area, where it is used to produce a
small number of parts on one of the injection molding
machines. If the parts meet the design specifications
established by the design team, the mold is passed on to be

15. cleaned and polished. It is then packed and shipped to the
customer. One day is spent inspecting and testing the mold
and a second day cleaning, polishing, packing, and
shipping it to the customer. If the parts made by the mold
do not meet design specifications, the mold is returned to
the master machinist for retooling and the process starts
over. Currently, Custom Molds has a published lead time
of nine weeks for delivery of custom-fabricated molds.
Dock Dock
Receiving raw
materials
inventory
Lunch room Packing and shipping
finished goods
inventory Cut and trim
Dry mix Testing and inspection
Wet mix Injection machines
Assembly
Mold fabrication
Offices
FIGURE C2.1 • Plant Layout
The manufacturing process for plastic parts is
somewhat different from that for mold fabrication. An
order for parts may be received in conjunction with an
order for a mold to be fabricated. In instances where
Custom Molds has previously fabricated the mold and

16. maintains it in inventory, an order may be just for parts. If
the mold is already available, the order is reviewed by a
design engineer, who verifies the part and raw material
specifications. If the design engineer has any questions
concerning the specifications, the customer is contacted
and any revisions to specifications are mutually worked
out and agreed upon.
Upon acceptance of the part and raw material
specifications, raw material orders are placed and
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production is scheduled for the order. Chemicals and
compounds that support plastic-parts manufacturing are
typically ordered and received within one week. Upon
receipt, the compounds are first dry-mixed and blended to
achieve the correct composition. Then the mixture is wet-
mixed to the desired consistency (called slurry) for
injection into molding machines. When ready, the slurry is
transferred to the injection molding area by an overhead
pipeline and deposited in holding tanks adjacent to the
injection machines. The entire mixing process takes only
one day.
When the slurry is staged and ready, the proper molds
are secured—from inventory or from the clean and polish
operation if new molds were fabricated for the order—and
the parts are manufactured. Although different parts
require different temperature and pressure settings, the
time to produce a part is relatively constant. Custom Molds
has the capacity to produce 5,000 parts per day in the
injection-molding department; historically, however, the
lead time for handling orders in this department has

17. averaged one week. Upon completion of molding, the parts
are taken to the cut and trim operation, where they are
disconnected and leftover flashing is removed. After being
inspected, the parts may be taken to assembly or
transferred to the packing and shipping area for shipment
to the customer. If assembly of the final parts is not
required, the parts can be on their way to the customer two
days after being molded.
Sometimes the final product requires some assembly.
Typically, this entails attaching metal leads to plastic
connectors. If assembly is necessary, an additional three
days is needed before the order can be shipped. Custom
Molds is currently quoting a three-week lead time for parts
not requiring fabricated molds.
THE CHANGING ENVIRONMENT
In early 1991, Tom and Mason Miller began to realize
that the electronics industry they supplied, along with their
own business, was changing. Electronics manufacturers
had traditionally used vertical integration into component
parts manufacturing to reduce costs and ensure a timely
supply of parts. By the late 1980s, this trend had changed.
Manufacturers were developing strategic partnerships with
parts suppliers to ensure the timely delivery of high quality,
cost-effective parts. This approach allowed funds to be
diverted to other uses that could provide a larger return on
investment.
The impact on Custom Molds could be seen in sales
figures over the past three years. The sales mix was
changing. Although the number of orders per year for
mold fabrication remained virtually constant, orders for
multiple molds were declining, as shown in the following
table:

18. NUMBER OF ORDERS
ORDER Molds Molds Molds
SIZE 1988 1989 1990
1 80 74 72
2 60 70 75
3 40 51 55
4 5 6 5
5 3 5 4
6 4 8 5
7 2 0 1
8 10 6 4
9 11 8 5
10 15 10 5
Total orders 230 238 231
The reverse was true for plastic parts, for which the
number of orders per year had declined but for which the
order sizes were becoming larger, as illustrated in the
following table:
NUMBER OF ORDERS
ORDER Parts Parts Parts
SIZE 1988 1989 1990
50 100 93 70
100 70 72 65
150 40 30 35
200 36 34 38
250 25 27 25

19. 500 10 12 14
750 1 3 5
1,000 2 2 8
3,000 1 4 9
5,000 1 3 8
Total orders 286 280 277
During this same period Custom Molds began having
delivery problems. Customers were complaining that parts
orders were taking four to five weeks instead of the stated
three weeks and that the delays were disrupting production
schedules. When asked about the situation, the master
scheduler said that determining when a particular order
could be promised for delivery was very difficult.
Bottlenecks were occurring during the production process,
but where or when they would occur could not be
predicted. They always seemed to be moving from one
operation to another.
Tom Miller thought that he had excess labor capacity
in the mold-fabrication area. So, to help push through
those orders that were behind schedule, he assigned one of
the master machinists the job of identifying and expediting
those late orders. However, that tactic did not seem to help
much. Complaints about late deliveries were still being
received. To add to the problems, two orders had been
returned recently because of the number of defective parts.
The Millers knew that something had to be done. The
question was “What?”
(Source: This case was prepared by Dr. Brooke Saladin, Wake
Forest University, as a basis for classroom discussion.)
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