Eg3007 Engineering Analysis: Greenhouse Automation Assessment Answers

Topic: Automated Greenhouse

Instruction:

A primary aim of any business plan is to set out your strategy and action plan

• This typically covers the next one to three years, or sometimes five years.
  
  
• The plan explains your objectives and how you will achieve them.
  
  
• Putting the plan in writing helps you focus and develop ideas. Priorities are identified. Non-priorities are dropped, saving precious time.

• Once written, the plan is a benchmark for the performance of the business.
  
  
• By involving your employees in the complete planning process, you continue to build up a successful, committed team.

Answer:

Purpose of the plan

Mission: 

It is the mission of Greenhouse Automation Ltd. to provide the best and finest quality of green energy solutions for the existing building owners as well as new construction. Through proper and careful analysis, cost effective solutions and attentive customer support. Greenhouse Automation ltd. would become stable and efficient business serving the community.

Vision statement:

The organization vision is to become the leading greenhouse automation provider not just on United Kingdom but in all the countries of the world.

Action plan:

• Conducting a feasibility research for ensuring that the market is efficient for the greenhouse business in the coming five years.
• Hydroponic techniques like Nutrient Field Techniques (NFT) are to be used as it automatically monitors and renew the growing solutions.
• It helps in providing a controlled greenhouse automated system which produces more yields to the farmer than the traditional farming methods (Yang et al., 2014).
• Lower transportation as well as production costs for the organization as automated technology process reduces the requirement for manual labor in the community.

Business structure: Profit sharing arrangements would be provided to all the senior management and it will completely be based on the individual performance for a time period of five years or more as per the trustees and board of the organization. Competent and qualified individuals would be required in the positions for Chief Operating Officer, Accountants, and Plant Supervisor

Content of the plan

Objectives:

Greenhouse Automation Ltd. has identified various elements required for success, which would helpful in creating sustainable business. Greenhouse automation ltd has identified major three objectives that would be pursued for obtaining long-term success in the business.

• Reach the organizational profitability within the time period of three years.
• Efficient cost-benefit analysis should be used for maintenance, structure building and energy consumptions.
• Become the major environmental energy consultancy for promoting greenhouse in the next within the next five year.
• Offering solutions as per the requirements of the consumers.
• To ensure that all the automation solutions should be built as per the economic considerations
• Providing 100 % or maximum customer satisfaction.

Priorities:

Greenhouse Automation Ltd. offers variety of environmentally conscious solutions for greenhouse promotion that is linked to existing and new structures. The fully automated system helps in making profitable and sustainable production for herbs and lettuces (Tekale & Thorat, 2016). The primary services provided will help in producing more leafy vegetables using less resources and spaces. In every step of the plants growing progress from seeding to harvesting everything is totally automated.  

In the current times, solar greenhouses have gained major popularity (Liying et al., 2016). Greenhouse Automation Ltd. helps the farmer to collect solar energy during day which can be stored and used during the night to extend the crops and herbs growing seasons.

Sales Forecasts:

Greenhouse Automation Ltd. has forecasted it sales for $ 200,000 in the year 2 and rising to $ 300,000 for the year three.  The net profit of the organization will be achieved in its second year. The organization will achieve long-lasting profit in the business by combination of strong management team and well defined energy business plan. The sales generated by the Greenhouse Automation Ltd. depend on size and nature of the commercial farm. The agricultural and commercial industry where greenhouse automation is to be used should be properly analyzed to generate enough income.

References:

Aytekin, S., & Levent, M. L. (2016). Greenhouse Automation using Wireless System. International Journal of Engineering Science, 3785.

Liying, H., Yipu, Y., Yang, W., Hongmei, T., & Xinhuan, N. (2016). Design on the greenhouse intelligent monitoring system based on MCU. Journal of Chinese Agricultural Mechanization, 37(1), 65-68.

Tekale, P. D., & Thorat, M. P. (2016). Green automation and monitoring over MATLAB. Imperial Journal of Interdisciplinary Research, 2(12).

Yang, I. C., Hsieh, K. W., Tsai, C. Y., Huang, Y. I., Chen, Y. L., & Chen, S. (2014). Development of an automation system for greenhouse seedling production management using radio-frequency-identification and local remote sensing techniques. Engineering in Agriculture, Environment and Food, 7(1), 52-58.