Process Optimization and Capacity Analysis in Service and Operations Management
Overview
This assignment analyzes four distinct operational processes through process diagrams and capacity planning. It examines airport gate departure procedures, car cleaning service workflows, customer service call center operations, and multi-stage customer service processes, proposing improvements and calculating optimal resource allocation for each scenario.
What this coursework covers
- Question 1: Gate departure process diagram with luggage verification improvements
- Question 2: Car cleaning operation comparing single-car versus assembly-line approaches with 15 workers and 42-minute timeline
- Question 3: Call center flow diagram identifying IVR bottleneck with 150 daily service capacity
- Question 4: Multi-stage activity process redesign to service 180 customers per hour
Preview
ASSIGNMENT
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Question 1: The process diagram for the departure gate is illustrated below
Directed to right gate
Proper Boarding Pass
Customer waiting for name to be called.
No
Carrying Excessively large bag
Yes
Directed to check luggage piece
Yes
The process can be improved through:
- Checking the size of the luggage before arriving at the gate. This will allow clients with excessively large bags to be sent to the right gate beforehand. Therefore, the queue for checking the boarding pass will be short.
- Before arriving at the departure gate, the boarding passes can also be checked at the security check stations. Clients without the proper boarding pass would be filtered out of the queue.
Question 2
- John should hire 15 cleaners to ensure that each car is cleaned by one cleaner. The plan should work through the allocation of each car to one particular cleaner. With each cleaner working on a particular car, the cleaning would take 42 minutes because each task would be managed by one cleaner.
- Precedence diagram
A | B | C | E, F | F | ||||
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I, J | G, H | |||||||
In this precedence diagram, each cell represents a task ‘station’ where cleaners are divided into 8 groups, with each working on all cars during the cleaning process.
- The assembly line approach illustrates how the cleaning service for each car is achieved using a sequential approach to create the end product. The minimum number of workers required in the cleaning process are 15. The total amount of time required by the team to complete all the tasks is 42 minutes.