...the bottlenecks in my morning routine. In order to do this I had to use the Goldratt’s theory of constraints to help me identify and overcome the process bottlenecks. In order for me to overcome and improve my daily routine, I had to identify the slowest process of my morning routine. After applying the Goldratt’s theory of constraints to my morning routine I was able to identify two major constraints the slowed down the process of my morning routine. The first constraint that I was able to identify depended on the route I chose to take each morning which determined rather or not I would arrive to work or not. The second constraint in my morning routine was the amount of time I would spend sitting in traffic once I would exit the turnpike. The first constraint could be identified by the route that I would take in the morning which determined weither or not I made it to work on time. After evaluating the two routes I was able to identify that Route 1 offered the slowest process in my morning routine which caused me to be late for work both morning that I took this route. Route 2 was identified as the route that was most effective in my morning route. Route 2 allowed me the opportunity to speed up the process of my morning routine. The bottle neck that was identified as the amount of traffic that I would have to drive in each morning if I took the route 1 (SW 120 Street exit). Although route 1 allows me to exit closer to my job each morning it is not the most effective...
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...Process Improvement Plan Jennifer DeRosa OPS/571 October 3, 2011 Tonya Webster PMP, CSM Process Improvement Plan Statistical Process Control is a technique that can be used to test output from a process. It is useful in determining how a process is currently being performed and if it can be improved upon (Chase, Jacobs, & Aquilano, 2006). As part of my week one assignment, I created a flowchart that detailed my weekday morning process. I chose this process because I wanted to find ways to reduce the amount of time it took me to get the kids off to school. By creating a flowchart, bottlenecks were identified as well as opportunities to maximize the limited amount of time I have to complete my morning routine. This paper will again use the process identified in week one to complete a Statistical Process Control that can be used to verify my standard process is operating in a way that allows me to complete all of the tasks and affords me additional time. This paper will also outline the control limits of my morning process, the effects of any seasonal factors, and the confidence intervals involved. Statistical Process Control Data was recorded for a period of two weeks on how long it took me to complete my morning routine and get my kids off to school. I tracked the minutes it took me to complete each step of my morning routine and used the totals from each day to calculate the mean. On average, the time it took me from the time I woke up to...
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...Design a Flowchart for a Process Ana A, Brown OPS/571 October 17, 2012 Dave Kunz Design a Flowchart for a Process Every day of our daily lives is a part of a process. Everybodys parts of the process are different in many ways and still the same in other ways. When Ana was working six month ago her routine was the same three days of the week and the other two different. Ana is on disability now until February 2013 and my days differ on a daily bases. Ana will design a flowchart process that states how she would like to spend less time on her routine of going to work. The daily process that she would like to do more efficiently is spend less time doing her morning routine. Ana have chosen this process because it would allow her to examine the process she uses every day to get ready for her day and hopefully find ways to reduce the time it takes her to complete her daily routine. To assist Ana in her journey for a more efficient daily routine she has chosen to use a flowchart to document her daily routine process (flowchart, 2010). Discovering Impacting Aspect The major decisions to be made during Ana morning routine, is does she get up when her alarm clock goes off or does she hit the snooze button? After Ana get out of bed she thinks should she make her coffee to drink now or for the road? After that she ask myself does she brush my teeth first and get dress or does she do her hair and makeup? All the decisions affect the...
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...Design a Flowchart OPS/571 June 14, 2011 Design a Flowchart for a Process Daily processes are part of a regular routine and many of them may burn up a vast amount of time. In this paper, a detailed process is identified and a flowchart has been designed to show a variety of factors that influence the design process as well as the specific metric that identifies the measurement process. By designing a flowchart for this process, the desired result is to identify how the amount of time involved can be minimized while also making the overall process more efficient. Factors Affecting Process Design To assist me in my journey for a more efficient daily routine I have chosen to use a flowchart to document my daily routine process. To form a flowchart on most consider several questions such as; “What is or must be done, What would happen if it were not done, Where is the task done, When is the task done, and is it critical that it be done then or is there flexibility in time and sequence” (Chase, Jacobs, & Aquilano, 2006). Factors influencing the process design; is largely the decision’s that must be made during the routine and the time-frame in which they must be made. The major decisions to be made during my morning routine, is do I get up when my alarm clock goes off or do I hit the snooze button. After I get out of bed do I exercise or go straight to the shower, after I shower and get dressed do I have my clothes picked out or do I need to decide what to where?...
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...Running head: BOTTLENECK IN AM ROUTINE Bottleneck In AM Routine Ruth Martinez OPS/571 Operations Management January 28, 2013 Ashley Carr Bottleneck in AM Routine A flow chart was created in week one of class to see what improvements that could be made to my daily morning routine. For the following week I monitored the process and see what improvements if any could be made. Looking over the metric system I realized that I continued the same pattern each week, but realized what I could do on a consistency bases to improve my time. I will go over the bottleneck in my process and also reflect on how I can am able to apply The Goldratt’s theory of constraints in order to identify and finally overcome the bottleneck in my routine. Process Bottleneck Being able to the bottleneck can become a very important aspect of the analyzing the process because it allows for capacity to be identified in the process as well as the opportunity to increase it. Looking at the flowchart and the metric system I determined there was a few things aside from time that became my bottleneck such as over sleeping by hitting the snooze button and if I had my clothes for the day ready. A result of these two either gave me more time in the morning or delayed me to have a crunch on time. It seems that these are my two major problems in the morning everything is else is simple and flows quickly as the time permits it and allow me to rush to work on time or have time to...
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...Flow Chart for Process Christie Losch OPS 571 January 21, 2011 John Sobel Flow Chart for Process A person that wakes up each morning and hits the ground running and I have so much in common. On a daily basis I look for ways to improve my time management. Each and every day I wake up at the break of dawn and prepare my day for a long and strenuous workdayand not to mention my second job as a single-parent. The responsibility that lies on my shoulders is tough and can be overwhelming. I have chosen to design a flow chart to outline my routine in the evenings after work until bedtime. The time spent in traffic getting home, time spent doing homework, and cooking and are factors that can be shortened in my routine. The process flow of the routine begins with getting from work and driving home . My commute to and from work has many obstacles as it relates to traffic during those times. My work schedule cannot be manipulated for ease in the morning or the afternoon. Once my kids are picked up from school and we reach home then the process gets a little bit more stringent. Homework for a small child in elementary school is tough on them and the parents. The next step comes cooking, and then putting food after dinner, cleaning the kitchen can take some time. [have not included end of the process flow – getting ready to bed] The metric is time in this flow chart. I wish there was some way that the time spent doing homework, cooking and...
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...Design a Flowchart Christy Harrell University of Phoenix April 2, 2012 Everyday individuals develop a routine in their everyday lives. When one gets into his or her routine, they may not realize just how much time is used in completing the task. Getting up in the morning and going to work is probably a task many individuals would like to find a faster way in doing so. Now within a routine, there are several factors that affect the process. Using a flowchart is a great way to identify the factors and find a more resourceful way to complete the task in a shorter amount of time. Here are a few factors that affect the design process: 1. What time do I get up? 2. Do I get up at 7:30 or hit the snooze until 8:00? 3. Do I take a shower before I get my son ready for school, or an hour later? 4. Are my work clothes already selected, or do I have to pick them out in the morning along with ironing them? 5. Do I eat breakfast at home or grab it at a restaurant 6. Is traffic flowing steady, is there an accident, or is it just congested? All of these factors play a huge role in process of the routine. In order to measure this process, is using the metric of time. How long will it take to get to work? According to Google Maps, I live 5.8 miles away and without traffic, it estimated time is 10 minutes. Here is the data information collected for week one. Monday; March 26, 2012 Time: 25 minutes Tuesday; March 27, 2012 Time: 23 minutes Wednesday; March...
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...Bottlenecks in a Process University of Phoenix Bottlenecks in a Process Making a decision on what to eat for breakfast is a constant battle for me every morning. Eating breakfast is very important to me personally because it affects my mood for the rest of the day. Deciding on what to each morning is a routine, from the time the alarm goes off to taking a shower, I have the same question is in my head: What do I eat for breakfast? Although eating breakfast is routine, I find that there is always a constraint or a bottleneck in the process. Behind every process there is always a limiting factor whether it’s trying to get to work on time or trying to complete a degree, there are always bottlenecks that set the speed of your progress. The Key to speeding up my breakfast process is to find the limiting factor and alleviate them as fast as possible. After paying a good amount of attention to my daily breakfast routine, I found that the main bottleneck in the process is my food options, what is available to eat in the house? I found that I spend majority of my time looking for what is available to eat. To alleviate this process, I used the Goldratt’s theory of constraints to overcome the process bottleneck. The First step is to: 1. Identify the system constraints: the constraint in my process is my food options and the availability of food in the house. 2. Decide how to exploit the system constraint: To develop the constraint of my breakfast process, I would have...
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...Bottlenecks in a Process Week one observation of getting my children ready and taking them to school identified many steps that add to the time spend on doing this process every morning. The observing and recording of the flow each morning over the last three weeks has created opportunity for the process to be streamlined. A bottleneck is any step that would slow down the speed of any process. In my daily routine bottlenecks could be potentially caused by two main sources: children’ mood and traffic. The progress of work flow depends on how these two criteria work together on every day. Childrens’ mood; their acceptance to get ready and what they want for breakfast and lunch are the main cause contributing to creating bottleneck in the morning that delay the whole process. When children are still sleepy and cranky, dressing them up and preparing their breakfast and lunch boxes would take longer time. Once realizing the concept of bottleneck the opportunity was clear that this stage could be speed up by asking the children what they want for breakfast and lunch at night and preparing what is possible the night before. Another way of speeding up the process is preparing lunch boxes while the children are having their breakfast. As well, putting the children to sleep exactly at 7:30 pm allows them to get enough sleep; by doing these steps ahead of time enhanced the flow of daily routine. Another bottleneck in my process is traffic, in order not to get stuck in the traffic jam...
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...An alarm going off on a bedside table, and the student reluctantly getting out of bed. This immediately recognizable high school experience for most people will establish the desired frame of reference for the audience, as almost everyone has experienced that at some point. This will be followed by a homeless person explaining their morning, alongside shots of their sleeping conditions, and morning routine. The narrative will then progress, following each person through their morning routine. Differences in hygiene, health, and comfort will be highlighted, offering to the audience the two different ways of life, or pathways. After this sequence, both subjects will be introduced. Their names, ages, and backgrounds will be revealed. Through this, the audience will get a sense of the socioeconomic conditions that have led to each path in life. In no way will this shame or frown upon either path, however it will show the ways in which society is currently failing those who are homeless, not through any fault of their...
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...Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, Submitted for publication 24 July 2002 Accepted for publication 20 April 2003 Correspondence: Susan Waterworth, School of Nursing, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, 85 Park Road, Grafton, Auckland, New Zealand. E-mail: susanpw@xtra.co.nz W A T E R W O R T H S . ( 2 0 0 3 ) Journal of Advanced Nursing 43(5), 432–440 Time management strategies in nursing practice Background. With the increasing emphasis on efficiency and effectiveness in health care, how a nurse manages her time is an important consideration. Whilst time management is recognized as an important component of work performance and professional nursing practice, the reality of this process in nursing practice has been subject to scant empirical investigation. Aim. To explore how nurses organize and manage their time. Methods. A qualitative study was carried out, incorporating narratives (22 nurses), focus groups (24 nurses) and semi-structured interviews (22 nurses). In my role as practitioner researcher I undertook observation and had informal conversations, which provided further data. Study sites were five health care organizations in the United Kingdom during 1995–1999. Findings. Time management is complex, with nurses using a range of time management strategies and a repertoire of actions. Two of these strategies, namely routinization and prioritizing, are discussed, including their implications for understanding time...
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...Design a Flowchart for a Process Daily tasks such as getting ready for work can be a challenging and a race to the end. Daily regular routines can be time consuming and tiresome. This paper will demonstrate the daily process and a designed flowchart of how a daily routine can affect the processing flow in one’s life. The flowchart is a visual representation of the sequence of the content of the product showing what comes first, second, and third. (Levine 2001) This particular flowchart will be designed to assist in minimizing the amount of time that is involved in a daily routine and how the process could be made more resourceful. Factors that Affect the Process Design The factors that can have an effect on the process design is the daily decision that are being made within a routine and the amount of time it takes the routine to be made. There are two decisions that have an effect on how the morning will be accomplished. First are the major decisions such as: * Getting up in a timely manner * Pressing the alarm’s snooze button at least twice * Getting clothes out to wear (both mines and child) * Finding something for breakfast * Getting myself ready * Bath * Hair * Teeth brushed * Make-up * Clothes * Ensure child is dress correctly * Clothes * Teeth brushed * Hair brushed * Backpack ready including lunch * Ensure child eats * Getting child to the bus stop * Leave early...
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...to a classroom setting follows. Classroom Management Classroom management begins before the students even step into the school at the beginning of the school year. Each teacher is challenged to create their own system of classroom management which encompasses many things. The personality of the teacher will strongly determine the types of classroom management they will use (Bullock, Coplan, & Bosacki, 2015). Classroom management requires procedures to be in place, plans to be prepared, organization of the classroom and materials, and structure (Ediger, 2013). Establishing procedures is the first major aspect of classroom management. This involves setting up routines for the students that will take place on a regular basis. As my students walk into my second grade classroom each morning, they know the morning routine and get straight to it. They hang up their coats and book bags in the coatroom and bring their materials into class. I have an attendance table where the students pick up the popsicle stick with their name on it and place it in the cup for the lunch choice of the day. They then sharpen their pencils and use the restroom. Finally each day the students arrive, they find some...
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...1. Situation:! Beginning of the Day! Routine:! Turning in homework! a.! Enter the room politely and quietly.! b.! Hang up jacket, coat, or hat (if wearing them) in locker.! c.! Remove homework folder and agenda book from backpack.! d.! Place backpack in locker.! e.! Place homework folder in homework basket.! f.! Sit down at your own desk. ! g.! Sit quietly and listen during any morning announcements.! h.! View “Do Now” activity instructions on board. (items will vary) ! i.! Quietly work until class begins. ! ! 2. Situation:! End of the Day! Routine:! Preparing to leave! a. When instructed to start, clean up your desk and surrounding area.! b. When your group is called get everything from their cubby.! c. When called get backpack, jacket, coat, and hat from locker.! d. Quietly and politely line up.! ! 3. Situation:! Transition Between Activities (In- Class)! Routine:! Getting excited about whats next! a. When the verbal notification is given, the students should quietly start cleaning up ! their work area.! b.! When the second verbal or audible notification is given, they should stop and ! ! give their attention to the teacher for further instructions.! c.! Depending on the next subject, the students should follow the instructions to ! ! obtain materials needed or politely and quietly go to a specific work area.! ! 4. Situation: Distribution of Materials! Routine:! Patiently wait for my Mail Carrier! a.! When materials are needed, the teacher will ask the predetermined...
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...A common problem at many schools is the lack of control over what apparel the students show up in. Several schools have a regulated dress code, such as Athens Bible School. This dress code, however, has been manipulated plenty of times in the past and could be easily resolved if a simple uniform rule was put into place. Some people may not appreciate the thought of the school taking away their ability to express their originality, but it would be more beneficial for everyone in the long run. A dress code would alleviate much of the morning stress of picking out a proper outfit for school. It would also allow the teachers to no longer worry about the students’ clothing, especially since they would all be properly dressed. Lastly, a student’s...
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