Fabtek
FABTEK
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Fabtek, one of the first companies to provide titanium products for industrial use, has a fabrication division which is the second largest industrial fabricator of titanium in the industry. The company is currently facing shop backlog and delivery times have increased from 8-10 weeks to 16-60 weeks. Some employees of the company were of the opinion that customers continued to place orders with Fabtek in spite of the delays and backlog, because of the quality.
The company is now faced with four orders of which they have to choose one to make a bid. Choosing more than one for bidding is not a feasible option since the added volume from any one of these orders will affect metal purchases and Fabtek’s limited facility size will make overtime or a third shift impractical and also because there will be no room to store work in process.
The criterion that operations would consider while making a bid include a technically challenging job in which the......
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