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Group Number: Group 46

Assignment Title: Wriston ManufacturingCorporation

Course Code: RSM1340HS.2013-0104)

Section #: 1 2 3 4 5

Course Name: Operations Management

Professor Name: Prof. Philipp Afeche

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1) There are two factors that impact overhead burden rates which are volume (ex. economies of scale) and complexity of the production process associated with manufacturing a given product. This is illustrated in the case of the Detroit plant, which has the highest overhead burden rate. In terms of the volume effect, given that the Detroit plant does not operate at capacity because it has been left with a “residue of low-volume products”, the fixed overhead costs (due to idle machinery for example) are not being thinly spread over a large quantity of products being manufactured, hence contributing to a high overhead burden rate. On the other hand, in the case...