September 2010
Intermediate to advanced
829 pages
35h 34m
English
book
Operations Management: Creating Value Along the Supply Chain, 7th Edition
by Roberta S. Russell, Bernard W. Taylor III
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Chapter 9. Project Management
In this chapter, you will learn about . . .
Project Planning
Global and Diversity Issues in Project Management
Project Scheduling
Project Control
CPM/PERT
Probabalistic Activity Times
CPM/PERT Analysis with OM Tools
Microsoft Project
Project Crashing and Time-Cost Tradeoff
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OM Tools Software
Animated Demo Problems
Internet Exercises
Online Practice Quizzes
Microsoft Project
Lecture Slides in PowerPoint
Virtual Tours
Company and Resource Weblinks
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Project Management AT MARS
In November 2009, Mars Chocolate North America completed two significant large-scale projects in Hackettstown, New Jersey: a solar garden, one of the largest solar projects in the state; and a renovated, state-of-the-art headquarters facility. The solar garden consists of more than 28,000 ground-mounted solar panels on 18 acres next to the Mars headquarters in Hackettstown, where M&M chocolate candies are also manufactured. The solar garden (owned and operated by PSEG Solar Source) provides about 2MW of power to the plant—enough power for about 1,800 homes—and approximately 20% of the plant's, peek energy consumption. The solar garden reduced carbon dioxide emissions by more than 1,000 metric tons, the equivalent of removing 190 cars from the road each year. The renovation project to the Mars headquarters included an open, flexible workplace ...
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