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Pecan Peanuts produces a variety of packeted nut products from its main factory in the UK. Two main packet sizes are available, a smaller one for snack-size sales and a larger one for home baking sales. Pecan Peanuts also sells other snack nut products (cashews and pistachios) but both pecans and peanuts are by far the best sellers.
The Company imports shell-on nuts mainly from Australia.
Business has fared well since the Company set up production in 2017. Indeed, there has been a steady increase in net profits every year since start up. Recently the Company has noticed various trends among customers, including an increasing interest in healthy snacks. One of the older machines in the production line seems to be labouring and breaks down more regularly these days.
Accordingly, as a work placement from the University of Roehampton, you have been set a number of tasks, the results of which should be presented in business report format for Pecan Peanuts (word length 2000, excluding graphs/figures/references) and written in English. 
These tasks are detailed in the following pages and generally concern (in alphabetical order):
•    Customer information
•    Production information
•    Quality assurance information
•    Recommendations for factory improvement
•    Summary nut information

Your report should not be simply be a list of tasks. Rather, it should read as a professional business report with an introduction, sections, summary, references and appendices, all in Word format.
All tasks are worth ten marks each.

Task 1
You have been asked to write a brief overview of pecans and specifically the Australian pecan industry and you have found a suitable report written by Jacquelyn Simpson at an Australian government website: Pecan Report (Note: This report is also available in Moodle)
Write a brief overview based on the two sections Pecans and Australian Pecan Industry. Your overview should be no more than two paragraphs. You should not copy verbatim the information contained in the report. The proper Harvard reference for this report should be included as one of your references in task 10.

 

Task 3

Having gained a better understanding of the pecan, peanut, cashew and pistachio market, you decide to start analysing the nutritional values of each. A good starting point can be found at an Australian website:Createhealthfitness Unfortunately, the stacked column chart contained in the website is not very clear although it does contain good value information about fat content. Therefore, you have decided to make your own table based on the saturated fat content in pecans, peanuts, cashews and pistachios. From your table, create a stacked column chart for pecans, peanuts, cashews and pistachios. Give a brief summary of the relative ‘healthiness’ of these four nut types with regard to saturated fat content.

 

Task 4

Currently, all of Pecan Peanuts’ operations are carried out on two separate production lines, one driven by a new machine and the other by a relatively older machine. Recent monitoring of each machine show that the probability of failure in the new one is 0.20 % and in the old one is 0.80 %. Given that the quality assurance department insists on a probability of 99.999% that at least one machine is working at all times, advise Pecan Peanuts if this condition is being satisfied. 

 

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