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ProGlove Smart Gloves: Let’s Save Four Million Dollars A Day!

by Wee Kwan Eng, Holly Ott, Cheah Sin Mei
Discipline:
Operations and Supply Chain Management
In 2014, ProGlove emerged the third-place winner in Intel’s “Make It Wearable Challenge”. The ProGlove team of four who had met at the Technical University of Munich in Bavaria, Germany, had submitted the idea of a “smart glove,” which was a barcode scanner, motion detector, and RFID reader...
S$6.00

Bottlenecks and Batching in Dragon Fruit Jam Production

by Wee Kwan Eng, Holly Ott, Cheah Sin Mei
Discipline:
Operations Management
GSH Conserves was an artisanal jam producer in Singapore that specialised in using tropical fruits, such as dragon fruit, lychee, mango, etc., to handcraft high-quality jam in small batches. Founded in 2013 in a home kitchen, the demand for GSH Conserves jam and bottled fruits had grown organically...
S$6.00

Optimising Process Flows in Dragon Fruit Jam Production

by Wee Kwan Eng, Holly Ott, Cheah Sin Mei
Discipline:
Operations and processes
GSH Conserves was an artisanal jam producer in Singapore that specialised in using tropical fruits, such as dragon fruit, lychee, mango, etc., to handcraft high-quality jam in small batches. Founded in 2013 in a home kitchen, the demand for GSH Conserves jam and bottled fruits had grown organically...
S$6.00

Process Quality Monitoring at Altis Semiconductor

by Holly Ott
Discipline:
Operations Management
Set in 2015, this case illustrates a typical process problem (or “excursion”) experienced in a production facility, considered from the perspective of the quality department. The case uses an example at Altis Semiconductor, where certain process parameters measured during production are indicating...
S$6.00

Productivity Improvement Project: Global Operational Incentive Alignment at Infineon

by Holly Ott, Christian Hanus
Discipline:
Strategy, Operations Management, Human Resources Management, Finance
This case is a classic example of misaligned project metrics, where different parts of a project are unable to simultaneously achieve their targets. The case uses a project at Infineon Technologies Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. to illustrate a complex and very aggressive project, which requires...
S$6.00

Developing Local Leadership in Infineon Technologies Asia Pacific Operations

by Holly Ott
Discipline:
Organisational Behaviour and Leadership, Operations Management
Between 2004 and 2011, Infineon Technologies, a German semi-conductor company, was shifting its supply chain functions from Munich to Singapore. And Rainer Thomas, senior director corporate supply chain for Infineon Technologies Asia Pacific, was responsible for managing this shift over those six...
S$6.00

Tuning-In to Client Needs: Matching Supply and Demand for the Television Turner Division at Infineon Asia-Pacific

by Holly Ott
Discipline:
Operations Management, Marketing, Human Resources Management
This case introduces the reader to the highly complex semiconductor industry, which is characterised by its well known “boom-n-bust” cycles: periods of high demand and worldwide allocation, followed by periods of low demand, excess capacity, and high stocks. The key challenges for supply chain...
S$6.00

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