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8. What steps might need to be taken before the equipment actually arrives to
prepare for installation?
9. When should you follow-up to see that the equipment is meeting the needs?
10. How do the defined steps fit into the framework of the engineering design
process? Where do the tools of an economic analysis fit in?
unless all personnel is present in the facility. We will move on to the next step of the
decision making process and further define the goal and objective.
The goal and objective is to properly assess the needs and requirements each
department and personnel requires. In this case, we will need to find out which
departments need to utilize the copier machine the most. We must also find out
more about the specifications of these copiers to see how they can be optimally used
and whether or not the bought and rented copiers have any differences in them. By
doing so, we can see which department will utilize the copier machines the most
and if there are any underutilized machines, we may have to consider having more
departments assigned to a singular copier machine. We will now move on to the
data that has been provided to us.
Thus far, we know that there are 2 copier machines that were bought and an
unknown amount of rented copier machines. All personnel are not currently in the
office and are either being transferred or hired every week. In total there should be
approximately 100 personnel in these offices. There will be 7 different departments
with a manger for each department. We currently don't know the layout of the office
building, the size of the building, the specifications of both the rented and bought
copier machines, the cost of these particular machines and others on the market, the
exact date of when the office will be done hiring, and the nature of the workers.
There are a lot of things that are unknown in this situation. Based on the
information that has been presented to us, we will now look at the alternatives we
have in approaching this problem.
To find a solution to this problem, we will first find the specifications for the
copier machines we currently have. Once the office has all of its personnel hired,
we can see how much each department utilizes each copier machine. Of course, we
will also have to place all these copier machines in various locations. The locations
of these copier machines will most likely correspond to where each department is
positioned in the office. Of course, there will be modifications for each department
for their individual needs. We will then see the usage of all the copier machines and
take surveys from each personnel to assess the copier machines. We will also take
into consideration the manager's input even more. But once we have gather more
information about the usage of these machines, we can properly assess and find
ways of optimizing the scenario. Next we will construct some kind of model from
all the data we have collected and form some kind of solution for this scenario.
For this model, we will first see that these copier machines are suitable for
use in the office. If some departments require a higher demanding copier machine,
we will take a look at whether or not the cost is viable for the work that they do. Of
course, we do not have to get the same copier machine for the entire office. This
way we can properly manage the cost and optimization of these copier machines.
Next, since we have decided to categorize the copier machines by attributing them
to each department, that is how we will asses it. Depending on whether there is high
demand from one department or low demand from another department, we will see
if a department requires more copiers or a more demanding one. On the other side
of the spectrum, we will also look at the departments with low demand for these
copier machines. In this case we will have a central location for which the
departments will share a copier machine. This way, we do not have to have idle
copier machines that are not in use. Once this model has been implemented, we will
once again analyze the office's use of the copier machines to see if the decisions that
were made actually optimized the use of the copier machines. If there are
modifications that need to be made, then the proper steps will be taken to assure that
these measures will be met.