Table of ContentsINDUSTRY VISIT: ........................................................................................................................................... 3OBJECTIVE: ............................................................................................................................................... 3INTRODUCTION: ....................................................................................................................................... 3OFFERINGS: .............................................................................................................................................. 3ORGANISATION OF PLANT: ....................................................................................................................... 4OPERATIONS TOOLS: ................................................................................................................................ 5CONCLUSION: ........................................................................................................................................... 7CASE STUDY:................................................................................................................................................. 8OBJECTIVE: ............................................................................................................................................... 8INTRODUCTION: ....................................................................................................................................... 8PROBLEM DEFINITION: ........................................................................................................................... 10MODEL DEVELOPMENT: ......................................................................................................................... 11DECISION VARIABLE: .................................................................................................................... 12PARAMETERS: ................................................................................................................................ 12SETS: ................................................................................................................................................. 13METHODOLOGY: .................................................................................................................................... 16THE GENETIC ALGORITHM APPLICATION: .............................................................................................. 16CONCLUSION: ......................................................................................................................................... 20REFERENCES: .......................................................................................................................................... 22GROUP 5 PROJECT - DECISION MAKING MODELSINDUSTRY VISIT:OBJECTIVE:To visit a manufacturing company and study the organizational research tools used therein.
INTRODUCTION:We visited Godrej & Boyce Manufacturing Co. Ltd., Interio Divison at Vikhroli. Establishedin 1897, Godrej & Boyce Mfg. Co. Ltd. is one of the largest privately-held diversified industrialcorporations in India. Godrej today is one of the largest engineering and consumer productscompany in the country having varied interests from engineering to personal care products.
Godrej Interio is one of the various businesses run by Godrej & Boyce Mfg. Co Ltd. It is acontemporary, stylish & ergonomically designed range of furniture & interior solutions thattransforms any space.
Stallion!
English: A rally of local people in protest of Wag...OFFERINGS:Godrej Interio does roughly 250 projects per month. The offerings of Godrej Interio include:1. Office Furniture - Desking, Seating, Open Plan Office Systems, Computer furniture andStorages. The products in this category are Stallion, Spacio, Lite and Doric. Out of thisStallion is the main product with 85% market share.
2. Home Furniture -Living, Dining and Bedroom furniture3. Kitchen cabinets4. Laboratory furniture5. Marine accommodation6. Healthcare furniture7. Turnkey interiors8. Carpet tilesGROUP 5 PROJECT - DECISION MAKING MODELSDAILY MACHINESCHEDULE9. Mattresses.
The site visited by us was the Furniture manufacturing plant (Plant No-4) of Godrej Interiosituated in Vikhroli, Mumbai. Plant no. 4 has its own planning, marketing, production andpurchase departments. All the wood and metal work related to the furniture business is done inPlant 4.
ORGANISATION OF PLANT:Figure 1: Departments in the plantBOMPURCHASEPLANRAWMATERIALGROUP 5 PROJECT - DECISION MAKING MODELSDEPARTMENTS:1. Sales and Marketing Department: The marketing department gets the orders from...