Gian Jyoti Institute of Management &
Technology, Mohali
Assignment I
Academic Session January - April 2015
Name of the Faculty:- Gurdeepak
Singh
Subject and Code:- MBA 202 – Production and
Operations Management
Date for Allotment:- 27th
Jan 2015
Date for Submission:- 6th
Feb 2015
Department:- MBA
Session:-2015-16
Q1. Many companies
today are allowing customers to select design features of their products using
the internet. Visit the website of Ford Motor company (http://www.ford.com/cars/mustang/2014/customizer/)
and find the web page that allows you to build and price a Ford Mustang. Select
all the design options you would like. What is the price you would pay for your
new Mustang? Log in through your facebook account and post your car and ask
your friends on facebook to vote for your car. You can put more than one car? I
will check this assignment on the website itself. So do invite me to vote for
your car on facebook. Do this Question
by 2nd Feb 2015 4 pm please.
Q2. The second part
of assignment is based on an industrial visit.
Aim is to give you
practical exposure to the modules that you have to learn as part of this course.
In this context, a
field visit is being organized for you to Mahindra
Manufacturing Plant in Mohali next week from 10 to 1 pm, where they
manufacture tractors.
What you are
expected to do during this visit and as part of Assignment Q2:
1)
You are to submit a one page pre-visit report by 1st
Feb 2015 on Mahindra Swaraj Tractor Plant in Mohali covering two aspects
a. About
their product line and markets
b. Quality
Management concepts being used in their operations
2)
After the Industrial visit, you are to
submit again a one page report of your
visit picking up one aspect of Quality management which the company is
adapting for any one operation that you saw along with the process chart for
that operation.
You may be asked to present your work
in class, so do save your work on pen drive and be ready to present the same in
front of the class at one day’s notice.