...Business Statistics Assignments Submission EPGDIM 2013-15 By Assignment 1 The Tractor Industry in India: Largest in the world Question 1: Construct a bar, line, and histogram charts indicating demand of tractors from the data given in Table below. Demand for tractors in post years | Year | Demand (in thousands) | 1990-1991 | 139 | 1991-1992 | 148 | 1992-1993 | 148 | 1993-1994 | 138 | 1994-1995 | 163 | 1995-1996 | 202 | 1996-1997 | 245 | 1997-1998 | 278 | 1998-1999 | 273 | 1999-2000 | 280 | 2000-2001 | 286 | 2001-2002 | 250 | 2002-2003 | 215 | 2003-2004 | 215 | 2004-2005 | 220 | Answer: Bar Graph Line Chart Question 2: Construct a Pie chart of leading players from Table below. Answer: Leading Players in Market | | | share by hp (%) | Company | Total | 21-30 | 31-40 | 41-50 | Bajaj Tempo | 5.4 | 0.3 | 2.6 | 2.5 | Eicher | 29.6 | 24 | 5.6 | - | Escorts | 55.1 | 11.4 | 9.2 | 34.5 | MGTL | 3.6 | 1.7 | 0.9 | 1 | HMT | 7 | 2 | 4.2 | 0.8 | M&M | 89 | 32.6 | 27.1 | 29.3 | PTL | 29.1 | 10.5 | 18.6 | - | TAFE | 38.1 | 7.3 | 21.7 | 9.1 | LTJD | 10.2 | - | 0.6 | 9.6 | Int Wac | 32.9 | 10.2 | 9.5 | 13.2 | Pie Chart Question 3: Construct a pie chart of product variation from table below: Answer: Product Variations in terms of horse power | Type (hp) | Share (%) | Upto 20 hp | 0.3 | 21-30 hp | 21 | 31-40 hp | 56 | 41-50 hp | 14 | > 50 hp | 7 | Pie Chart Question 4: Construct...
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...bearings, time-share results, and instrumentation along with jeeps and tractors. In 1991 the Harvard educated scion told M&M that they would not continue business with them if they didn’t have global potential, resulting in the businesses being regrouped into four strategic business units (SBUʼs) such as; automotive, farm equipment services, IT services and trade and financial services. The company anticipated an economic downturn in the tractor industry that resulted in M&M creating the Operation Blue Chip. The drive was launched in 2000 and later in 2001 the domestic market for tractors collapsed as expected, and M&M was the only tractor company in the Indian industry that made profits. India was the worlds second largest tractor manufacturer and in the 1990s the country was expanding to more competitive markets such as the United States. M&M capitalized quickly on this opportunity and set up an assembly plant in Tomball, Texas in 1994. Elsewhere, the Indian tractor industry categorized 13 players in the Indian tractor industry on the basis of power delivered by the engines horsepower that also included three multinational corporations; New Holland, John Deere, and SAME. Because of an emphasis by the federal government on increasing share of agricultural in the gross domestic product, the flow of farm credit had been rising over the years, contributing to one of the several growth drivers in the Indian tractor industry. Agricultural businesses were entering alliances with farmers...
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...The History of New Holland Worldwide The history of New Holland dates back to October 1872 with the humble beginning of the New Holland Machine Works in a one person Farm-Equipment Repair Shop. No one paid much attention when a 26-year-old Machinist named Abraham Zimmerman opened a tiny repair shop at New Holland, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. The first machine build by Zimmerman was a small portable feed mill. Designated to be the no.1 mill it launched the New Holland Machine Works into the feed grinding business, from which, it has never departed. Abraham Zimmerman decided to expand his little company by incorporation and selling stocks to his friends and customers. In 1895, the New Holland Machine Works became the New Holland Machine Company, a name that would carry the firm to prominence in farm Equipment Company. During the next half century, New Holland introduced highly successful machines such as Balers, Rock Crushers, Limestone Pulverizers, Conveyors, Milling Machines, Engines, Coal, Furnaces and an early rotary Lawn Mower. In 1947, New Holland Machine Company came under the ownership of Sperry Corporation; additional plants were acquired in Mountville, Belleville, Pennsylvania and Lancaster. The New Holland Machine Company was now poised to become the industry leader in grassland farming in next decade and brought 100 new products into the line, including Fertilizers spreaders, Farm wagons, crop dryers and crop drying fans. In 1970 an exciting boldness characterized...
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...CASO: Una empresa japonesa está pensando lanzar al mercado un negocio de ascensores. La estrategia planteada es la siguiente: “Todos los ascensores son iguales pero el nuestro es 25% más barato”. Premisas: • Ascensores de pasajeros • Japón no se analiza como país • Ventas globales ¿Cómo estructuraría el análisis bajo el Pensamiento Estratégico? Primer paso: La empresa debe definir cuáles van a ser sus objetivos generales. Para ello lo primero que debe hacer es definir el mercado objetivo al cual la empresa pretende dirigirse para vender sus productos (ascensores para pasajeros). Para poder cumplir con la estrategia que los ascensores de la empresa sean 25% más baratos que los de la competencia, la empresa debe buscar un segmento de mercado donde no interese el lujo ni la comodidad del producto, sin descuidar la seguridad del transporte de pasajeros que es lo más importante. Por lo tanto, en el rubro en el cual la empresa no debe restringir costos en la seguridad que deben tener sus productos. Promover una adecuada infraestructura para brindar una amplia conectividad y optimización en el uso de los recursos y condiciones habitacionales tendientes a mejorar la calidad de vida y las condiciones ambientales. Segundo paso: Una vez que la empresa ya estableció el mercado objetivo, debe realizar investigaciones de mercado que cubran los siguientes aspectos: ¿Cuál es el tamaño del segmento escogido? En un marco de creciente competencia, nuestra concentración...
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...Laborer, Searsmont, ME • Set up support beams for main floor • Built up walls, second floor, and roof • Tar paper the outside walls and roof • Set up rafters and put sheets of plywood on the roof • Cut out windows and doors 2012 Tony’s Painting Services, Painter, Belfast, ME • Prep work such as sanding and washing before painting • Set up of ladders for faster, easier painting • Admired your work, step back to look and see if you missed anything • Set up drop clothes incase of drip • Making sure there is enough paint on your brush so you can get an even thick coat of paint 2011 – 2012 Self Employed, Landscaper, Belmont, ME • Operated vehicles and powered equipment, such as mowers, tractors, twin-axel vehicles, snow blowers, chain saws, electric clippers, sod cutter, and pruning saws • Mowed or edge lawns, using power mowers or edger’s • Cared for established lawns by mulching, aerating, weeding, grubbing, removing thatch, or trimming or edging around flower beds, walks, or walls • Use hand tools, such as shovels, rakes, pruning saws, saws, hedge or brush...
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...An-Najah National University Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology Mechanical Engineering department Project of Industrial Plants Layout and management(67430) for AL-Hizam Company for Carton industry Team #6 :: Omar Rizq-allah ahmed Oday Amouri Abdul-qader salameh Jehad shamlouli Ahmed istatieh Tareq khrim Submitted to Dr. Mohammed Othman 29/11/2013 1.0 Introduction AL-Hizam Company for Carton industry specializes in carton industrial processes, such as cutting and printing. The factory faces some problems in arranging its machines, and also in storing raw materials and delivering it to the machines. As shown in the following figures. Finally, we get information and limitations for this specific project and take it as constraints, after that we compare our results with these constraints and make some recommendations. Fig (1): Al Hizam Company. Fig (2): Printing Machine. Fig (3): Store. 2.0 Description Department | Description | Area(m^2) | D1 | Printing | 33.15 | D2 | Pasted | 51.1 | D3 | Printing +cutting | 109 | D4 | Cutting | 60.8 | D5 | Shipping | 28 | D6 | Cutting | 41 | D7 | Printing +cutting | 49 | D8 | Pasted | 21.6 | D9 | Printing+cutting+pasted | 75.32 | D10 | Spline cutting | 34.8 | D11 | Striation | 33.89 | 3.0 Existing...
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...Caterpillar Inc. Origins The steam tractors of the 1890s and early 1900s were extremely heavy, sometimes weighing 1,000 pounds (450 kg) per horsepower, and often sank into the rich, soft earth of the San Joaquin Valley Delta farmland surrounding Stockton, California. Benjamin Holt attempted to fix the problem by increasing the size and width of the wheels up to 7.5 feet (2.3 m) tall and 6 feet (1.8 m) wide, producing a tractor 46 feet (14 m) wide. But this also made the tractors increasingly complex, expensive and difficult to maintain. Another solution considered was to lay a temporary plank road ahead of the steam tractor, but this was time-consuming, expensive, and interfered with earthmoving. Holt thought of wrapping the planks around the wheels. He replaced the wheels on a 40 horsepower (30 kW) Holt steamer, No. 77, with a set of wooden tracks bolted to chains. On Thanksgiving Day, November 24, 1904, he successfully tested the updated machine plowing the soggy delta land of Roberts Island.[10] Company photographer Charles Clements was reported to have observed that the tractor crawled like a caterpillar,[2] and Holt seized on the metaphor. "Caterpillar it is. That's the name for it!"[10] Some sources, though, attribute this name to British soldiers in July 1907.[11] Two years later Holt sold his first steam-powered tractor crawlers for US$5,500, about US$128,000 today. Each side featured a track frame measured 30 inches (760 mm) high by 42 inches (1,100 mm) wide and...
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...DeVry University Pomona, California Swot Analysis of John Deere Symbol on NYSE : DE By Eduardo Elizarraras 11307 Spy Glass Hill Road, Whittier, CA 90601 626-246-4747 elizarra1553@roadrunner.com Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Course Requirements for Introduction to Business BUSN 115 Professor Tom Donini March 21, 2010 Company Profile John Deere (Deere & Company — NYSE: DE) is a world leader in providing technologically advanced machinery for agriculture, forestry, construction, lawn and turf care, and all sorts of landscaping. John Deere also provides financial services worldwide. Deere & Company as it is known on the New York Stock Exchange manufactures and markets heavy machinery and engines used in heavy equipment. The company was founded by a blacksmith named John Deere. John Deere moved from Vermont to Illinois and immediately set up a blacksmith shop in 1837. John Deere developed a better plow for the tougher soil found in the Midwest and from there John Deere was established. Today John Deere Construction & Forestry produces more than 120 machine models and distributes its construction, forestry and worksite products through a network of more than 1,300 dealer locations worldwide. The company employs more than 50,000 people worldwide. John Deere’s Mission Statement as listed on their homepage website. It is listed as a Strategy Statement. We aspire to distinctively serve customers — those linked to the land — through...
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...Owner's Manual JCRRFTSMRN°I GARDEN TRACTOR 23.0 HP, 48" Mower Electric Start AutomaticTransmission Model No. 917.275023 This product has a low emission engine which operates differently from previously built engines. Before you start the engine, read and understand this Owner's Manual. CAUTION: Read and follow all Safety Rules and Instructions before operating this equipment. For answers to your questions about this product, Call: 1-800-659-5917 Sears Craftsman Help Line 5 am - 5 pro, Mon- Sat Sears, Roebuck and Co., Hoffman Estates, II 60179 U.S.A. Visit our Craftsman website:www.sears.com/craftsman Warranty ............................................... 2 Safety Rules ......................................... 3 Product Specifications .......................... 6 Assembly/Pre-Operation ...................... 7 Operation .............................................. 9 Maintenance Schedule ...................... 16 Maintenance ....................................... 16 Service and Adjustments .................... 20 Storage ............................................... 29 Troubleshooting ................................. 30 Repair Parts ........................................ 34 Sears Service ...................... Back Cover LIMITED WARRANTY ON CRAFTSMAN RIDING EQUIPMENT For two (2) years from the date of purchase, if this Craftsman Riding Equipment is maintained, lubricated and tuned up according to the instructions in the owner's manual...
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...INTRODUCTION There eventually comes a time every year when the grass begins to take off growing. It's a limited time because you have to decide whether you're going to hire a lawn company or go ahead and purchase your own mower for the up and coming summer. This time you want to make up your mind quicker than previous years. Because, the lawn will get out of control and you don't want your property to be dubbed the mosquito trap by sneering neighbors again. If you have anything bigger than a quarter acre (about 10,000 square feet), then you might consider buying a riding mower, if your yard is near an acre in size, then purchasing a commercial mower is the right choice for you. Our Commercial vacuum mowers are fully equipped, gas-powered, cutting, mulching, a zero-turn radius machines. These mowers are their pride and joy as they save time, labor costs and money. Most lawn care contracts pay by the job and not by the hour, so commercial model producers are making their units faster, more reliable and even a bit trendier. Besides industrial strength riding mowers, lawn care companies often buy commercial push behind mowers, or trimming and trimmer mowers. Companies like Honda and even Toro have been getting decent reviews for their commercial-grade, walk-behind models. Plus, these companies are making mowers that run quietly and efficiently for those sleepy, ever quiet homes in suburbia. Commercial mowing companies that we’ve researched seem...
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...their children get children. But the tricky thing about families is when; there is a gap between the generations. Then people more often than not, are having a hard time trying to understand one and other. Such a dilemma is shown to us in Mule Killers by Lydia Peelle. In this story a test of the morals is shown, given the two generations different view on a problem. In this story our protagonist is our narrator’s father. The story takes place, when the father was young, but is being told to our narrator, when the father, has grown older. So the story takes place when the father is eighteen years-old. He is working on his father’s farm. In the beginning on this farm, everything is done manually, until the father decides to purchase two tractors to replace the mules, which had been taken to the slaughter house. It is here the one of the differences shows. “Mercy, mercy, mercy” (l. 58) these words comes from the protagonist´s fathers mouth, when the state comes with their big trucks, and drags away one of the mules named Orphan. Here it is clearly shown that these animals are not only a tool, but also a friend and helper. The father is willing to beg for Orphans life. The fact that he has named him also proves that they were close. The way Orphan reacts when they try to load him on the truck shows that Orphan cares about the father. The way his eyes goes mad, when they finally get on truck also points to that neither of them will never be the same. While a lot of this is happening...
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...Situation Audit Swisher Mower is a lawn and garden company that manufacturers lawn mowers in its plant in Warrensburg, Missouri. The company’s flagship product is the Ride King. In 1996, Swisher was approached by a national merchandise retailer offering to distribute Swisher’s standard mower under a private label. The retailer offered to distribute the product line, but included several stipulations that would change the Swisher’s distribution methods of its product. Sales within the industry are predominantly determined by changes within the economy. If the economy weakens, overall sales within the industry decrease. This cyclical effect can hinder or expand sales for a company, causing many companies to adjust their business strategies. Another cyclical effect arises from changing seasons, which determines when products will be sold. During the mid-1990s, households were expanding outside of metropolitan areas into vast suburbs across the country. Home owners have acquired larger amounts of property within the suburbs. As the population drifts outside of metropolitan areas, more land is devoted to residential property. New technologies have become available that have helped evolve the industry. More powerful and durable engines are being developed, allowing larger jobs to be completed. The lawn and garden equipment industry produced sales of $5.5 billion in 1995. Three quarters of the sales were from finished mowers, while 25% of sales came from engines. The industry is comprised...
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...Vanraj Mini Tractors 1. Calculate the breakeven sales for Vanraj Min-Tractors? Break even is the volume of goods sold so that Total Revenue= Fixed cost + Variable Cost (1) Fixed Cost= Paid up Capital+ Deal Value Fixed cost= 1.25+10 Variable cost and the total revenue depends on the number of units sold. Let the number of units sold be x. Selling price of each tractor= 0.19 Assuming break even in first year itself 0.19*x= (1.25+10) + (0.155*x) + (0.12/300)*x + (0.06/300)*x + (0.504+0.396+0.144+0.143+0.480) Overhead expenses, Sales expenses, Depreciation, Interest paid, Salary and wages are considered as fixed cost for the first year as these does not vary with the number of units. We consider depreciation also as fixed cost. Solving this gives number of units required to break even is x= 376 units But the actual production in 1st year is just 300 units So we suppose breakeven in the 2nd year 0.19*x= (1.25+10)+ (0.504+0.396+0.144+0.143+0.480) + (0.12+0.06)+(0.6+ 0.432+ 0.180+0.136+ 0.456)+ (x-300)(0.144+0.06)/330+ 0.155*x Solving this gives number of units required to break even as x= 428 This number of units falls in 2nd year. 2. Evaluate the attractiveness of different market segments for Vanraj? The four market segments for the Vanraj are small and marginal farmers, Large farmers, Industries, and horticulture farmers. Small and marginal farmers: Agricultural land holdings is highly scattered in India. Small and marginal farmers take 82% of the...
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...The product that we are marketing is going too marketed in various different segments. The target lifestyle market that our product is aimed towards is the baby boomer generation to the mature without kids. Ranging from: the retirement lifestyle; living in a neighborhood of lower-middle class singles and couples living in modestly priced homes, older white-collar workers living in communities of small families and empty-nesting couples, the baby boomers generation, and finally the on the go lifestyle of the X and Y generations. Basically the lifestyle segmentation our product is aimed towards is anyone homeowner that lives in a flourishing neighborhood, and has a go green or eco conscience lifestyle, also that is conscience of his/her surroundings and does not want to upset the neighborhood. We want our product to be a very well-liked item, and as soon as someone thinks of a particular task that our product immediately comes to mind. The usage of our product is going to be a pretty frequent occurrence, with a very low frequency of having to replace the product. We want our product to be used about once per week depending on factors in the area such as rainfall and the season. Our product is something that you only need one of per household, so the volume of a single family or household buying is very low. The target market will use our product whenever the see that their yard could be mowed, and that’s about the only situation our product could be used. In off seasons...
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...workers and nonagricultural workers. They want to update all the general rules, since the child labor rules were issued over 40 years ago. By some of these new rules, hired workers under the age of 16 will not be able to work with certain animals, working in feed lots or stockyards, grain bins and elevators, handling pesticides, working around manure pits and/or storage bins. Also, they will not be allowed to work in cultivation, harvest and curing of tobacco and from using electronic devices while operating power-driven equipment. The Department of Labor, also, wants to make child hired workers take a class to be able to drive any agricultural tractors. With all the new recommendations, who is going to want to work on a farm? Most kids that work on the farm enjoy the outdoors, working with the animals and driving tractors. On the farmers, point of view, who is going to want to hire kids that are hardly going to be able to do anything? Yes, they...
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