Your software development company wants to continue developing and enhancing a software for internal use. The Software Development Company is now requesting that you change your data structure from an array to a .Net List.

For this week’s assignment, the application is required to read from a file (data.txt) containing employees’ data. Your tasks include:

• Use the data file from the previous week (data.txt)
• The C# data structure class/methods must demonstrate the use of object-oriented collections
• Implement an employee record objects List Collection
• Meet specifications by displaying on a Windows Form Application

Program Input File:

Using Visual Studio® and C# programming concepts, and using the previous data.txt file as your source file, write a program to meet the specifications of the company’s request. The program should have the following characteristics:

• Compile and execute without errors
• Meet specifications by demonstrating file handling, List Collection data structure manipulation, and Windows Form output mastery by accomplishing the following:
  • Read employees’ data from a file
  • Input the data into a List Collection data structure
  • Display the employees’ data on the console
• Logic flow is clear, concise, and effective
• User inputs and outputs should be clear on screen
• Validation for input types and data format
• Appropriate indentation to logically illustrate program structure
• Identifiers logically describe use
• Naming conventions are consistent
• Comments and headers to explain processing that is not obvious

I need discussion replies for the two discussions attached. The discussion replies must answer the following questions below.  I have also attached the discussion assignment details, along with the system (Chiro link) embedded in the pdf.

1. Comment on the selected implementation (on-premise or cloud-based) and whether you believe a correct and appropriate explanation was provided.
2. Comment on the completeness and correctness of the explanation of the implementation consideration, explaining your comments.
3. Provide at least one additional statement relating to the consideration and the implementation of the ChiroTouch system.  (You should use different statements for each of your response postings.)

Assignment Content
Resources: Ch. 16 of Management: A Practical Introduction, Appendix: The Project Planner’s Toolkit and the Excel Template

Apply the concepts of the tools described in the Project Planner’s Toolkit.

Refer to the Excel Template as an example.

After studying and evaluating the components included in the Project Manager’s Toolkit, evaluate which of the tools (Gantt Chart or Flow Chart) would be most appropriate for each of the following tasks and use that tool to complete the task.

Outline the steps involved in undertaking a job search and choosing a job. 

Include an analysis of the advantages and limitations of the tool as well as ideas for ways you can use the tool in business.

Build a schedule showing the steps for planning and preparing for your vacation. 

Include a description of the advantages and limitations of this tool and ideas for ways you can use it in business.
Combine the charts into one file.

Description:

In this project, your team will put to use the skills you have learned for reading RFPs, creating detailed requirements and then a detailed design.  Either or both parts may be documented with text, unit tests, UML, or a combination of these.

Requirements:  The RFP

Carrying a pencil and score card when playing mini-golf is a pain; holding the club, ball, and trying to write the score down (with no table) is difficult.  A local mini-golf course chain has contracted your software development company to automate scoring.  At each hole is a keypad on a card-swipe station.  The customer hopes such high-tech mini-golf courses will attract more customers.

For cost reasons, the various courses around Tampa Bay all use the same central computer (already installed), connected to the card-swipe stations at each course using a network.  All the hardware has been installed already and the network is up and running.

Use-Cases and Other Requirements

The one use-case for the RFP is:

1. The users are issued disposable (cardboard) swipe cards when they pay, before the round starts.  They provide their name when issued their card, which gets printed on the card.
2. After completing each hole, the user swipes their card at that hole’s swipe station, and enters the number of strokes.  The card-swipe stations also display the player’s name and current score (the number of strokes over or under par, so far).  Once a score is entered for a hole, the player can’t change it.Note the score and the player’s name do not have to be stored on the swipe card itself.  That data can be kept (how is up to you) on the central computer.
3. After playing the last hole, the play can turn in their swipe card and request a printout of their round (the score card).  (That usually has a discount coupon on the back, for next time.)

 Think about what happens when the computer or network goes down. 

To be turned in:

A copy of the requirements and design documents for your team.  This should include use-case(s), functional, and non-functional (operational) requirements.  Your team must make those up, but feel free to consult the customer (that is, your instructor) if you want guidance.  The design should include any technology requirements and system description, in addition to a detailed design of any classes your design calls for, with their important members listed.  You can list those in text or UML

Process selection consists of determining the utmost appropriate method for task conclusion. It is a series of resolutions that contain technical or engineering problems and volume or scale issues. As Vonderembse and White (2013) stated, product design, capacity and process selection, are decisions that must be reflected on at the same time. The method for making a product must be contingent on the decisions made when designing a product. Likewise, the process selected and process technology impact product design. Simultaneous engineering was created in response to industrial challenges towards shorter lead times, lower costs and better customer satisfaction. In concurrent engineering, the dissimilar tasks in the product and production development process are integrated and performed concurrently rather than in sequence. Since the duties are being executed in parallel, by incorporating product and process design, this not only decreases the lead time but also improves quality. (Martin (2015). Furthermore, it leads to developing communication, decreases the number of variations in orders, evades delays and enables quick delivery of products thus preventing any mistakes that could increase costs (Vonderembse & White, 2013).  Martin (2015) further noted the prominence of taking into account, the stipulations of the products and the restrictions involved in the process during the design phase. By using the approach of Design for Manufacture, which combines the manufacturing information into the product during the product definition stage, many problems can be resolved (Martin, 2015).

Process selection is also related to the volume demanded in the market place. In process selection, managing leaders always aim to meet their goals by choosing the process that will best balance the costs, effectiveness, and quality. According to Ficko and Borojevic (2017), process forecasting is one of the most challenging tasks in product development because of a number of technological, economic and environmental issues. As a consequence, selecting a manufacturing process is considered a complex multi-criteria decision problem because it involves considering numerous possible alternative manufacturing processes (Fico & Borojevic, 2017). Capacity choices mandate careful deliberation of a business’s long-run goals and the market demand. These decisions must be dependable with existing and expected demand. So, based on the current or estimated market demand, corporations must choose the most suitable process to produce a good or service. The amount of capital put in production methods such as machinery should be warranted by the market demand for the product. If the demand is not enough to cover the cost of the machinery, then the organization should not invest in lavish, specialized equipment (Vonderembse & White, 2013).

Reference

Ficko, M & Borojevic, S. (2017). Multi‐criteria selection of manufacturing processes in the conceptual process planning. Journal of Production Engineering and Management, 12(2), 151-162, DOI: 10.14743/apem2017.2.247. , D

Martin, P. (2015). Product design-process selection-process planning integration based on modeling and simulation. International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 77(1), 187-210, DOI: 10.1007/s00170-014-6446-7.

Vonderembse, M. A., & White, G. P. (2013). Operations management [Electronic version]. Retrieved from https://content.ashford.edu/

Respond to… 

The concept of process selection is inter-connected and closely related to a product’s design, along with the necessary capacity for having a seamless production to completion.  In order to properly design a product and maximize its effectiveness, it is vital to consider those three attributes simultaneously because they are directly linked, and they should never be done independently of each other(Vonderembse, & White, 2013).  The theory of process selection is concerned with the most appropriate method of completing a task based on technical, engineering or scale issues. The product design encompasses all the aesthetics needed to provide a viable and marketable product necessary to meet demands.  The capacity that is selected by the organization is based on the estimated demand of a product and the proper price point that consumers are willing to pay,

The type of operation that is needed by a company is contingent on the type of product that the business produces, and it is also correlated to the market demands, which is based on process selection that is a function of the volume demanded.  There are also different process types that encompass, different projects along with manufacturing cells, line flow, assemble line, batch, job shop and flexible manufacturing systems(Vonderembse, & White, 2013)

Reference

Vonderembse, M.A., & White, G.P. (2013). Operations Management [Electronic version].

     Retrieved from https://content.ashford.edu/