ordered the Production Departments Project Leader Alison Passette, to create a p

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ordered the Production Departments Project Leader Alison Passette, to create a project immediately to find out precisely what was causing the failures and to find a way to solve the problem. This project was to take prior ity over all other projects in the department Broken Welds A manufacturer of mountain bicycles designed an auto mated system for weldig bike frames. the system worked nicely, handling about 1000 frames per shift. Production was scheduled for two shifts per day The system was designed to weld the frame and then to check the quality of each weld. The welded frames were then transported to another plant for assembly. For three years, Recently, a few of the frames had failed. Careful test ing showed that a foreign substance in the welding rod purchased from an outside vendor possibly contributed to the failure. When checked, however, the rods conformed to the specifications given to the Purchasing Department and guaranteed by the vendor. The Chief Engineer Alison was familiar with the Chief Engineer's ten dency to overreact to any glitches in the production process, so she decided to determine the impact of the proposed project on all the other projects in the depart ment. She also discussed the problem with Ken Kelsey one of her welding experts, who felt sure he could solve the welding problems by determining what foreign sub stance, if any, caused the problem. He could then set up a system to detect the presence 40 CHAPTER 1/ THE WORLD OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT reweld the affected frames. Of course, he added, they would also have to change their specifications for the detrmine the probable impact of Kelsey's proposed project welding rod to eliminate the chemical responsible for on the other projects in the department? Should her find- the failures. Questions: What information does Alison need to ings affect her decision about Kelsey's project? How

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Aliston the project leader of production department was ordered by Chief engineer to create a project immediately on the cause of failure of welding..he made it very serious and gave high priority to this than the remaining projects. This behaviour of the cheif Engineer was very common to the Aliston so she decided the failure impact on other projects by discussing it with the respective project members. as a part of this she also discussed this with the Ken Kelsey who was one of her welding experts, he said that he finds a solution to the problem by determining the foreign substance which is causing failure. And to reweld the damaged parts.he also said that they have to change the specifications of that foreign substance so as not to repeat this problem once again ...

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