February 21, 2009

OPMT2171 Jose's Mexican Restaurante

The course name for OPMT2171 is Applied Management Engineering, however the core focus is Project Management. This course has taught me all of the essential skills of managing a project from planning to closing.

In addition to acquiring skills in project management, I also applied learned theory on process improvement in the case study: Jose's Mexican Restaurante. The main problem the restaurant faced was that customers were not being served in a reasonable time. In order to develop a feasible solution to this problem, several of Six Sigma's quality tools were used including Pareto diagrams and flowchart as exhibiting below:

Through the analysis, it was clear that the waiters were spending a significant portion of their time helping the chef in the kitchen instead of waiting on tables. Thus, the recommended solution was to hire a full-time assistant cook which would definitely increase table turnover, customer satisfaction, and decrease wait times during peak periods.

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