Manufacturing Process: Technical Analysis and Optimization

Technical Feasibility Study

The aim of this study is to verify the technical feasibility of manufacturing a product or delivering a service. It intends to accomplish this with the project, analyzing and determining the optimum size, location, investment, and organization required for production.

Production Process

The production process is the technical process used in the project to obtain goods and services from inputs. It is identified as the transformation of a series of inputs to turn them into

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Business Intelligence and Enterprise Systems: Key Concepts

Business Intelligence and Data Analysis

Social Network Analysis

Social Network Analysis (SNA): A technique that attempts to find groups of people who work together, identify people who should collaborate but do not, or find experts in a particular subject area.

Measures

Measures: The values or numbers a user wants to analyze.

Master Data

Master Data: The data deemed most important in the operation of a business.

Web Content Mining

Web Content Mining: Extracting textual information from web documents.

Continuous

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Practical Price Analysis: Cost Breakdown & Valuation Methods

Practical Price Analysis

1) Analysis of Prices: The rationale for the price of each item is the budget of the work. It is formed by the addition of the following:

  • Cost of Materials: Cost-price or cost of application
  • Cost of Labor
  • Overhead
  • Final Cost Benefit of the Work
  • Taxation
  • Financial Cost
  • Other Eventual Costs
  • Contingencies
  • Security
  • Fee

Materials

Unit

Amount

Unit Cost

Partial Cost

Cement

kg

28

1.002

28.06

Sand

M3

0.24

190.60

45.74

Hydraulic lime

kg

47

0.75

35.25

Common Brick

a

364

0.70

284.80

Subtotal

363.85

LABOR

Official

Assistant

Hs

hs

7

8

15.

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NIF A-3, A-4, and A-5: Financial Statement Analysis

NIF A-3: User Needs and Objectives of Financial Statements

The primary focus of NIF A-3 is to identify user needs and establish the objectives of financial statements (EF) for entities.

Objective of EF According to NIF A-3

The objective of EF is derived mainly from the needs of users in general.

Evaluating Financial Performance

EF allows users to evaluate:

  • The financial and economic behavior of the entity, its stability, and vulnerability.
  • The entity’s ability to maintain and optimize resources, obtain
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Tourism Evolution: Elitist, Mass, and Sustainable Models

Elitist Tourism

  • Grand Tour:
    • Purpose: Education and personal development of the traveler.
    • Practitioners: Young men of the English aristocracy.
    • Destinations: European cities with significant historical and cultural heritage.
  • Craft Tourism:
    • Emergence of a new adventurous spirit.
    • Purposes: Education, therapeutic health, and meditation.

Mass Tourism

Fordist Tourism

A model of production and growth within the capitalist economic system, which began in the early twentieth century with the American Ford company and

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Understanding Organizational Structures: Types and Components

Item No. 3

1. What is an Organizational Structure?

It is the system of positions established to define roles, based on the analysis and study of each profile.

2. Explain Mechanistic and Organic Structures and their Adaptation to the Environment

  • Mechanistic Structure: Characterized by high complexity, significant formalism, general relations, and centralism. This hinders creativity and innovation.
  • Organic Structure: Collaboration is both vertical and horizontal. Functions are adaptable, with little formalism,
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