Reference no: EM133650172
Case Study
Gong-Auto is an automotive repair shop in the Illawarra region. They offer mechanical repairs to five major automotive brands. Gong-Auto procures and stores a number of different auto parts for the vehicles they repair to reduce the time required to return the cars to the owners. However, they have not been able to store all the parts, requiring them to order the parts as required as well. This has sometimes resulted in long waiting times for customers for repairs. The operations manager who joined Gong-Auto after completing a course in operations management from UOW, has been analysing their historical service data. He points out that 80% of their repair jobs are confined to two automotive brands. According to him, rather than focusing on all major brands it would be much more profitable for the company to focus on those two brands. He has been sharing this idea with the supervisors and the crew who agree with this suggestion. He has put forward this idea to the top management of Gong-Auto.
Question
Gong-Auto wants to open a new repair shop in the region. They have already bought suitable land to locate the repair shop. They have identified the following activities as part of the project to set up the warehouse.
A. Obtain the necessary approvals from agencies to build the warehouse.
B. Identify a suitable contractor to build the repair shop.
C. While the identification of the contractor is ongoing, design the repair shop with inputs from employees and an engineer.
D. Construct the repair shop.
E. Order the fixtures, fittings, and equipment for the repair shop so that they would arrive to coincide with the completion of construction (fixtures, fittings and equipment can only be ordered once the design is finalised)
F. Install the fixtures, fittings and equipment and commission the repair shop.
Provide your estimates for each of these activities (in weeks) and construct a network diagram for the project (estimation of activity durations will not carry marks). Show the earliest start time, earliest finish time, latest start time and latest finish time for activities within the diagram. Also, highlight the critical path for the project. Explain the significance of information that can be obtained through a network diagram.
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