The global marketplace has witnessed an increased pressure from customers and competitors in manufacturing as well as service sector (Basu, 2001; George, 2002).Due to the rapidly changing global marketplace only those companies will be able to survive that will deliver products of good quality at cheaper rate and to achieve their goal companies try to improve performance by focusing on cost cutting, increasing productivity levels, quality and guaranteeing deliveries in order to satisfy customers (Raouf, 1994).

Increased global competition leads the industry to increasing efficiency by means of economies of scale and internal specialization so as to meet market conditions in terms of flexibility, delivery performance and quality (Yamashina, 1995). The changes in the present competitive business environment are characterized by profound competition on the supply side and keenindecisive in customer requirements on the demand side. These changes have left their distinctive marks on the different aspect of the manufacturing organizations (Gomes et al., 2006). With this increasing global economy, cost effective manufacturing has become a requirement to remain competitive.

To meet all the challenges organizations try to introduce different manufacturing and supply techniques. Management of organizations devotes its efforts to reduce the manufacturing costs and to improve the quality of product. To achieve this goal, different manufacturing and supplytechniques have been employed. The last quarter of the 20th century witnessed the adoption of world-class, lean and integrated manufacturing strategies that have drastically changed the way manufacturing firm’sleads to improvement of manufacturing performance (Fullerton and McWatters, 2002).

Consult chapter 7 of your text book or secondary available data on internet and answer the following questions.

1. Assess the reasons for using lean thinking (suitable examples),what are the benefits from Suppliers to end users?

Research on Madrid 2004 Bombing

In March, 2004, commuter trains in Madrid, Spain were attacked, and terrorism was suspected. Research this incident and prepare a report that describes the following:

Which group or groups were responsible for the attack? Describe how this was investigated.

How did the group carry out the attack? Provide a detailed description of the attack.

Why did the attackers choose this particular target? What did they hope to achieve?

How did investigators identify the attackers? Was anyone punished for the attack?

Conclude your report by explaining whether the group achieved its goal.

Support your responses with examples.

1. Apple’s Worldwide Revenues from 2004 to 2019 is as follows:

1. Enter the data above into the tab labeled Apple. Graph the data in Excel and use your graph to determine what kind of time series pattern exist. Put your answer in your spreadsheet.
2. Make the following forecasts for 2020. For all of them, use Mean Squared Error to determine which of the forecasts is the best. Make sure your answers are clearly labeled.
   1. Naïve forecast from one prior time period
   2. Calculate a 4-period moving average
   3. Calculate a 3-period moving average with the following weights for time t: time period t-1=0.8, t-2 = 0.15, t-3=.05
3. In the tab called Apple Smoothing, use the data from 3. to forecast 2020 using an alpha equal to 0.7, 0.8, and 0.9. Using MSE, which one offers the best estimate for 2020?
4. In the tab called Apple Regression, use the information from 3. and run a regression to determine your forecast for 2020
   1. Put your regression output in F1 of the same workbook.
   2. Calculate what your forecast is for 2020 in F21.
   3. How does well does this regression equation predict revenue? Write your answer in F22. In addition, explain what your numerical answer means in words.

PLEASE PROVIDE STEP BY STEP AND FORMULAS FOR EXCEL, THANK YOU

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The following table provides an economy’s ability to produce scoops of Lemon Gelato, LG or Coconut Gelato, CG.

1. Explain WHY there is a “curve” or “boundary” associated with these values in the table? Why is there a MAXIMUM boundary or Frontier of Possible Production?
   
2. If we draw this curve or boundary APPROXIMATELY to scale, WHAT SHAPE – a straight line, a concave line, or a convex line - would describe the curve AND WHY would this the case?
   
3. Why is TECHNOLOGY, T important to an Economy-Wide Productive Potential?
   
4. How might an INCREASE in the Productive Potential of ONE GOOD ONLY lead to the ability of the economy to actually INCREASE the actual production of BOTH GOODS?

In the flow around a cylinder, boundary layer separation occurs due to (SELECT CORRECT ANSWER)

A boundary layer is

Two flows may be classified as having dynamic similarity if

Think about how these types of situations might arise in your academic career. How does academic dishonesty undermine the purpose of graduate school?

How can college students use the information on metacognition to improve their academic work? What strategies will you employ in your future academic work?

Have you, or someone you are close to, ever been impacted by Academic Dishonesty (or a lack of academic integrity)? Describe and discussion the situation you experienced.

1. Theoretically prove the boundary conditions for waves in closed-open tubes. Please provide pictures.