Machinery Case Studies Samples For Students

Landmark Antitrust Case Study Assignment

Dr. Mozayeni

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Monopoly 221 U.S. 1, Standard Oil of New Jersey v. U.S. (1911)
1. Write a 100- word abstract of the case, including the date of the case.
The Standard Oil of New Jersey v. U.S. was a case that took place in 1911 and gave the Supreme Court gave its verdict on May 15, 1911. In this case, the Supreme Court of the United States found Standard Oil of New Jersey as being guilty of engaging in monopolistic and anticompetitive actions. These actions of the Standard Oil were as an attempt to monopolize the ...

Hanover Shoe, Inc. v. United Shoe Machinery Corp.
- Abstract
In this 1968 case, Hanover Shoe was a customer of United Shoe Machinery, leasing their shoe-making machinery. Previously, United Shoe lost a suit brought by the United States based on the anti-trust effects of their leasing scheme. Hanover used this finding as a basis for suing United Shoe themselves, requesting treble damages. The Court found that the prior case did stand for the proposition that the leasing scheme was illegal monopolization and found for Hanover. United Shoe argued a “passing on” defense and that Hanover’s additional taxes should be excluded ...

- You are required to evaluate, the two options for the production of product Z.

Comment and advise Tony accordingly in the production of product Z.(25 marks)

Answer:
Assuming 40,000 production levels, the cost associated with both the options are as below:
It can be easily seen that the cost of producing 40,000 units is less in case of labor intensive option than the machinery option. For low production levels, it is recommended that labor intensive option is a better option.
However, as the production level goes up, machinery option covers up for the extra machine rental expense and at some level produces units at a lower cost ...

Abstract

United States v. United Shoe Machinery Company is a suit which was brought before the Supreme Court by the United States (US) against the defendants- United Shoe Machinery Company (of New Jersey), United Shoe Machinery Corporation, United Shoe Machinery Company (of Maine) along side their officers and directors. It was brought under the provisions of Antitrust Act 1914, c. 323, 38 Stat. 731, 736 aimed at preventing them from making leases and decisions deemed to be in a violation of this law. After its argument on March 16th, 19th, 20th and 21st, 1817, it was decided upon on 20th, June, 1918.

Discussion

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External Analysis of M-Tronics

Analysis of the external forces is necessary to assess the environment in the particular industry and to create a competitive strategy for the company. Porter’s five forces offers a framework for industry assessment in terms of 5 parameters: rivalry, threat of new entrants, substitutes, the bargaining power of suppliers and the power of buyers. This framework will be further applied to M-Tronics company.

Rivalry threat in the industry is medium, since the company holds 40-60% of the market share, especially in the Electronic Division. Here M-Tronics already has approximately 60% of the market share and expects further increase, since the ...

The Main Issue

Employment termination always come and go in the industry. However, termination undergoes certain processes and clarifications in order to avoid issues from arising. These issues originated from several reasons, depending on how the human resource department tackles the situation. Most of the time, the human resource department is knowledgeable enough of the policies and regulations of the company, which eases their decision-making about termination, especially if an employee violated one of the policies. Also, termination processes also include documentations in order to verify the claims and statements of both the HR department and the employee to be fired. Lastly, ...

General explanation of the procedure followed

Contribution refers to the excess the unit selling price of a product over the direct costs of production related with the production of the said product. This accounting procedure is based on the assumption that fixed costs are incurred on timely basis (fixed costs are fixed for a certain duration of time) Hence, the fixed costs are considered irrelevant in decision making regarding the production of the said product.
Contribution per unit is thus defined as ‘the revenue generated to cover certain fixed costs, as well as cater for the profit margin of the trader. It is prudent for a manufacturer ...

Abstract

This essay regards a case of a patient, a farmer, who potentially has hay fever, which influences his work abilities; in this patient’s case, it is studied the physiology of this allergic reaction, the type of drugs that may be prescribed or preferred, the causes of such, consequences of the use of sedative drugs and, in case such are chosen, what suggestions the nurse should give the patient for his safety.
Keywords: allergy, antihistamine, sedation, driving.
- Physiology of an allergic response.
An allergic response is a hypersensitive response that the body has, which is caused by processes of ...

Be SPECIFIC with your answers, citing precise examples from the case. Use more space if necessary.
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PART 1: YOUR ANALYSIS OF THE NEGOTIATION

- In one or two sentences, explain why this negotiation is taking place. (2 ...

How has Aurora Textile performed over the past four years? Be prepared to provide financial ratios that present a clear picture of Aurora’s financial condition
On the basis of financial statement overlook and the outcome of the financial ratios, we found that over the period of 1999-2002, the company’s financial performance was bearish. Moreover, just like the other companies in the industry, even the company had not considered the possible impact and consequently lost its financial standing.
Beginning with the revenue figures, the amount has been decreasing consistently and plummeted from $245.90 million to $147.503 million by ...

Introduction

In any manufacturing firm, the location and design of plant lay are two crucial factors that determine the efficiency of the processes. A good plant layout should be able to convert raw materials into finished products in the most efficient and economical manner. There are various types of plant layouts depending on the products; processes involved and the site space available. Before deciding on the layout to adapt, considerations such as availability of waterpower and space are important.
Able Co. manufactures harnesses and cables and its location to a green field will have to make decisions pertaining to which ...

Introduction

Managing the inventories in the modern manufacturing operations is a tough process. Many manufacturing plants, both big and small, are facing problems in managing their inventory properly. Hence, companies are exploring new systems and software that can help in managing the inventory properly. One of the most popular software that is used to efficiently manage inventory is the Material Requirement Planning or MRP. MRP helps the companies in taking informed decisions regarding the efficient management of the company’s inventory (Vonderebse & White, 2013).
Other than helping companies in efficiently managing their operations, they also help them in improving the ...

- value chain of the industry
In the steel industry, there are a number of stages that exist between the producers and the final customers. There are also suppliers who provide the iron and the carbon to the producers. Due to its high value, the steel industry has one of the most lucrative value chains and this may be attributed to the fact that there is always a ready market for whichever stage the steel is. For example, the producers are aware that there are cartels of middlemen or manufacturers who are always ready to buy. The middlemen in turn ...

Executive summary 1

Question 1: Environmental analysis of Severstal Company 2
Question 2: Severstal’s corporate and competitive strategies evaluation 3
Question 3: strategic recommendations for Severstal 4

References 5

Executive summary
Steel is one of the most widely used materials in infrastructure development. This is due to the quality of its products and the fact that it is relatively cheaper than other materials that would be used to make the same products. However, the steel industry has had its fair share of tribulations especially during the 2008 economic crisis that fell many giants in the business. The industry experienced operations ...

1: BP’s Contributory Ethical Aspects to the Oil Spill

One of BP’s ethical violations includes the lack of implementation of the safety measures that would have prevented the occurrence of the incidences and the deaths. Some of the failures are visible through the absence of proper machinery controls like remote switching that would have enabled the crew to take charge of the situation in the rig. A majority of this mistakes stem from the fact that BP was cutting corners in its processes to ensure that it made savings on its investments while putting its employees at risk. The company also failed to adhere to environmental regulations ...

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Intensity of Each Industry Force

Bargaining power of buyers is low to medium because not only consumers have various alternatives in the CSD industry to select from but both the Pepsi and Coke offered multiple offerings to beverage lovers.
The power of suppliers is very high in the cola industry. The number of soft drink bottlers in the United States has greatly reduced from two thousand in 1970 to three hundred by the end of the year 2009. The industry is still dominated by Pepsi and Coca-Cola. These bottlers helped the national beverage brands secure shelf spaces and customer attention. Since there ...

According to the case, Lincoln Electric was a company that mainly manufactured welding machinery and consumables based in the United States but the lifting of trade barriers case prompted the management to contemplate on an expansion strategy to expand its production base internationally. The management was in view of establishing plants in Asia through joint ventures or as wholly-owned firms and whether regarding Lincoln Electric company depicts a situation where the adopts the firms incentive system in its new ventures. The company operated on the founding philosophy in which James believed that each person could transform to its full ...

In conditions of modern fast-developing world air transport has been one of the most convenient as well as one of the most popular. Nowadays the airspace is full of aircrafts, both commercial and military; people are leaving, departing and transferring without actually imagining the global scope. In fact, such a demand for air flights has made airports one of the most targeted places for mass attacks. Therefore, the airport systems the United States of America has to be perfectly secure. However, some terrorists’ attacks, especially those, which occurred in 2009 and 2010, have proved that even US homeland security ...

The Class

The accurate and convenient schedule has always been a guarantee of employees satisfaction. Many seek a job that would allow taking care of children, studies, and other things. On another hand, there are jobs which require special or adapted schedule. Employees expect the managers to create a schedule that meets their basic needs such as a reasonable number of days off, breaks during the work shift, etc. Timetable, therefore, deserves a special attention from the supervisors. In particular, the human resource and the production directors.
In the case of Building Products, Inc. we see an example of a successful ...

Problem Definition

Victorinox became the largest manufacturer of Swiss Army Knife as well as the key player in the sales of Swiss Army Watch after acquiring it main competitor Wenger SA in 2005. The CEO of the company, however, needed to find a way in which the company’s new venture into fragrance business, also acquired from Wenger SA, would gain a competitive advantage in its new market. He, therefore, gave Urs Wyss, the head of marketing for the company, the responsibility for assessing how best to run the newly acquired fragrance unit. Some of the questions the manager was to ...

The first case study is about Johnny T, who is originally from Thailand, but manages to set up and operate a successful Thai restaurant in Southwestern city. Initially, as a foreign investor, discrimination and competition are among the challenges that Johnny had to face, which he manages successfully. However, his main problem emerges following the shooting that takes place in state in the northeast. This is a case of how the social media can negatively affect and even threaten the very existence of small businesses. Following some negative comments on the shooting incident and two other follow-up comments by Johnny that were ...

Executive Summary

Introduction of the problem:
Andy’s new business growing, and there is an increasing pressure on him to become more efficient, standardize, and become scalable. These targets cannot be achieved under the current organizational structure. The major problem or forces against achieving these objectives is the organizational structure itself.

Identification of the root cause:

Despite the growth of the business, the company has not been able to produce standardized products in large quantities. It is also far away from efficient level of production. The basic problem with the company is lack of employees, and too much responsibility in the hands of Andy. As a ...

Question 1:

Strategic
- Meeting external equipment supplier
- Final daily check on the productivity performance at the plant
- Meetings with all managers, supervisors, and department supervisors
- Discussion with production operatives

Design

- Request and meeting with the marketing director for discussion on product trials
- Tour of the factory with plant engineers
- Meeting with technical representative of F-robot

Planning and control

- Checking productivity report from previous day
- Checking quality report for the past week
- Checking deliveries done
- Checking the finished product for variations
- Writing monthly reports ...

Fig 1: NDRC Techniques

Introduction

Non-Disruptive Road Crossings are manuals which outline unifying and standardizing measures of Road Engineering Practices. The significant objective of the project is to enhance the management, planning, design, construction, maintenance, and operation of all roads and related infrastructures to ensure a safe and uniform operational and structural capacity throughout the road network in Dubai. The complexity in road construction and to some point other engineering projects leaves very little to be argued about on their significance with respect to the influence they have on the environment. It is a fact that projects like roads, bridges, and dams ...

Economic Characteristics

Generally, steel market recognizes a relatively static development, being mostly produced in the developed countries, such as United States, Western European countries or Japan (Steel Panel Committee, 1985). However, Miles (2005) observes that the economic characteristics of the steel market are dependent on the general economic environment and in times of crisis the steel market is influenced, recognizing downturn. The demand of steel is, therefore, a reflection of the economic context.
In 2011, the steep production was distributed as follows: 14.5% of the global steel production was employed in mechanical machinery, 12% in automotive industry, 12.5% were directed towards the ...

Element of business

Introduction
Business functions and operations can be defined on a basis on relevant rationale within which an establishment is projected through specific operational models. In order to enhance business success, important attributes need to be out into consideration through major enhancement of integrating the required reasoning and well guided measures in the overall business structure. In this analysis, we discuss the ideal business elements and how they are relevant in a business and its overall performance levels.

Basic legal, social and economic environments

Basic Legal
For any organizations to function in a state it has to confine to the countries laws and regulations. For a multi-national company ...

Introduction

Capital markets and individual companies have changed the face of business through globalization. Firms have expanded their operations through new technologies that provide solutions at a low cost. Technological innovations have kept firms on their toe in the competitive world. Global markets are also putting firms at pressure to innovate and still reduce the costs of their products. This is not an easy task but it has led the companies to effectively manage the assets they have more specifically human assets and come up with more strategies other than innovation to maintain the profile in the market and cope with ...

The two products that Timbuk2 makes and sells are the San Francisco based custom tailored messenger bag and the Chinese produced laptop bags. The competitive dimensions driving sales of the bags are different. However, they enjoy the same synergy that is the brand image that the firm has acquired of its products over time. The key dimensions driving sales of the messenger bag include the fact that it is tailor made to the requirements and needs of the consumer. Indeed, clients have the opportunity to give their specifications and designs and the same is incorporated in the production process. ...

Stage 1: Facts related to the problem situation.

Four people come together on a new venture; they happen to be family members.

They are engage in selling olive oil as a family business for years and now wish to expand.

Initial enthusiasm and zest for “Tapenade” gives away to frustrations and strained relations.

Each member starts off with a given specific role: Barb investigates on other farms engaged in a similar activity, Barry researches on new machinery requirements, Christine a business plan, and Carl on a marketing plan for the new venture.
Conflict between Carl and Christine on ownership of the business and lack of clarity of their future roles. Both are ...

Environmental problems are issues that affect or change the normal setting of natural resources to a level of depletion, or where the rate of use is more than the rate of the resource in question naturally replacing its used part. This has necessitated for actions both from the governments and citizens through Non Governmental Organizations to fully embrace conservation of the ecosystem over the years. Conservation of the ecosystem is the preservation of natural environment with its physical composition which includes animals, insects and micro organisms among others. In central and Eastern Europe, Industrialization and extensive farming using machinery have ...