How It's Made Project

MGT 375 How It’s Made Assignment February 21, 2021

The intent of this assignment is to understand Operations Management methods in more depth by observing actual applications. Please view one segment from the show How It’s Made. The segments can also be found on youtube and the Science Channel website. You should be viewing something about 5 minutes long, and publically available. Do not pay for access and do not use videos significantly longer or shorter than 5 minutes.

When viewing the segments, pay particular attention to the company’s process selection. Is it a line, continuous, job shop, batch, project, or some combination of these? Is the product MTO, MTS, ATO, or ETO? Is the emphasis on labor or equipment? Is the labor skilled, semi-skilled, unskilled? What is the pace of production, how many created per day or hour? How much inventory is evident in the work environment? How long does the product take to make? The first two questions are critical and the others are nice to know. Some of these questions may not be answered on the video but please do not conduct outside research to answer them.

You will present your research in class, using slides, props, video, or whatever to answer these questions. You will work alone or in teams of two, you choosing your partner. Presentations are to last no more than eight minutes, no less than five. No teams may present the same product, so when you have chosen your product let me know by email.

You may not write a report for the following episodes

diamonds	tequila
golf tees	champagne
Samurai sword	car tires
lacrosse sticks	footballs
high performance engines	Macaroons
surfboards	golf balls
pringles	HEARING AIDS
lottery tickets	laptops
apple juice	mirrors
rubber bands	chocolate
beer	pretzels
water bottle	pills
belts	tattoos
hot dogs	marbles
bowling balls	bagpipes
ice cream sandiches	tequila