Report: Decision Analysis for Catanza Technologies' Robotic Sector

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of Catanza Technologies, a company in the industrial sector specializing in robotic technology. The company faced challenges and sought solutions to expand its business, particularly in the declining robotic sector. The report analyzes the company's decision to develop robotic lawnmowers using two methods: electric wire technology and GPS. It includes an executive summary, an overview of key facts, and a statement of assumptions. The report also presents a decision tree with net present value calculations and expected values for different scenarios. The analysis evaluates market conditions, production timelines, and financial outcomes for each technological approach, offering insights into the strategic decisions the company should make for future growth. The report also includes the strengths and limitations of the analysis in the context of the problem faced by the organization.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
TASK...............................................................................................................................................3
1. Decision Analysis Techniques and through which the Catanza Technology can solve their
problem.......................................................................................................................................3
2. Discuss in detail the strengths and limitations of your analysis in the context of the problem
faced by your organisation/Catanza Technologies:...................................................................9
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Management is considered as the most important function for the business organisation.
By the help of which the key persons of the company can take the effective decisions so that they
can grow their business operation for long period of time (Assumma and et.al., 2021). This
report contain complete analysis of the problems faced by the company known as Catanza
Technologies. This company was established in 2002 at Eagle farm, Brisbane (Australia).
Catanza technologies is comes under a Industrial sectors which provide effective industrial robot
through which the industrialist can easily achieve their tasks. After analysing the problems the
management of the company have figure out two different ways by the help of which they can
solve their major problems and can expand their business to the next level. This report also
include the analysis of the solutions bringing by the mangers of the organisation.
TASK
1. Decision Analysis Techniques and through which the Catanza Technology can solve their
problem.
a). An executive summary`
This report contains a complete information about the Catanza Technologies. It means
the solutions which are introduced by the companies so that they can fulfil the demand of the
consumer. The management of the company decided to expand their business activity in the
robotic technologies so that they can earn large of money. The management of the Catanza
technologies decided it because in 2008 their old business sector was declining continuously
which gives losses to the companies that's why they decided to go with the robotic system. The
company have done a complete research in the year 2015-16. Through this research they are able
to find out the need and requirements of the consumer. After this research the company also able
to identify the product which they have to manufacture so they can run their business operations
smoothly. The product which the company have choose is the Lawnmower. To manufacture this
product the Catanza technologies have two different ways. The analysis of both the methods are
going to be discussed in the below report. The Catanza technologies have been able to do this
because they have already hire professional and skilled persons. Due to them they are able to
analyse the future condition of their industrial sector (Darabi and et.al., 2019). All these types of
act can only be done by the by the effective management system of the company. For achieving

the objectives of the organisation they also have to arrange the raw materials, tools and
techniques so that they can manufacture the product. But these tools, techniques and resources
require large amount of investment which is not easily available in the business organisation.
b) A brief overview of the key facts and your approach to the problem:
The problems faces by the Catanza Technologies in their business operations are as follows-
Suitable for every condition- The very first problem faced by the Catanza Technologies
is that they have to figure out the way through which their product can became flexible in every
situation (Dhivyaa and et.al., 2020). Here every kind of situation, means that the robot can be use
in every kind of geographical condition whether it can be desert area, plane area or many be the
hills area. It have to be suitable. For figuring out the idea the Catanza have to incurred large
amount of money in their operations so they grow their image and goodwill which will lead them
earn the huge profit for longer period of time.
Determination of Price- The next and most basic problem face by each and every
company is determining of price off the product which they are producing. It is because price of
product is considered as a key factor for the success of their organisation. The Catanza
Technologies also have to face the same problems because they also incurred huge of investment
in their business and always wants their money back as soon as possible. This thing can nly be
done if the company have a good research of the market and consumer. If the price of the
product is set according to the consumer then it will lead them toward the success. If they price is
not set according to the consumer then the business operation can be suffer.
Sources of Finance- The next problem faced by the Catanza Technologies is find out the
sources of finance for the expansion of the business operations. It is because business did not
have the enough money by themselves so they can expand their business when ever they want.
The organisations have to figure out their best suitable option of source of finance which did not
cause any further issues in their business life cycle. If the company chooses the wrong source of
finance then they can face the consequences which can lead them to the losses.
Designing of Product- The next and very important problem face by the Catanza
Technologies is designing. The product design is very important it should be made according to
the needs and demand of the consumer (Do Xuan, Dao, and Nguyen, 2020). They should not be
too big in size and money it should be decent and flexible according the requirement of the
consumers in the market. It should also look attractive which can also attract the customer

toward the company. For designing of the product the company hire employees which can
reduce the profitability of the business.
c) A clear statement of assumptions about the information provided and your analysis:
After analysing and figuring out the problems of the Catanza Technologies it can be
assumed that all these problems can be solved by taking proper measures and precautions. These
types of problems arise in every kind of business firms (Dolianiti and et.al.,2018). Just the owner
and managers of the company have to manage them effectively and efficiently. It can understand
by providing the measures of the very first problem which is already discussed above is the
Flexibility or Suitability. The Catanza Organisation can hire more professional workers which
can provide their effective and innovative ideas through their business condition can be improve
for longer period. The another problem faced by the business organisations is price. For solving
these problems the Catanza Technologies have to regularly analyse their business condition so
that the can determine the best of their product.
d) Decision Tree of potential decisions paths and events through net present value
calculation, and expected value:
Electric Wire Technology: It refers to an electrical installation of devices and cabling like
distribution boards, switches, light fitting, sockets in a structure. the main subject of wiring is
safety standards for the purpose of installation and design. Allowable types of cable and wire and
sizes are particularly specified in term of or in concern according to the electric current and
circuit operating capability.
As per the above case study Catanza technology company now searching to develop an effective
production prototype. First one is electric wire technology, which helps the company in their
effective production. Company utilize electric wire (EW) model, by placing Wire around the
parameters of the area to be mown and after then connected to an electrical sources. The term
mower is mainly programmed or designed not to cross the wire. Company requires to build
electric wire model because of the highly requirement to lay wire and the battery life of Electric
wire will have a mowing area which is around 3000 square meters per day.
Global Positioning system: It refers that GPS is an effective technology which operates or
functions through a technique which is known as trilateration, which mainly used to calculate
velocity, location, and elevation. This technique used widely for the purpose of tracking and
navigation (Doumpos and et.al., 2019). This system functions by sending light speed signals to a

given GPS device from the various satellite at various locations. Utilization of GPS in business
can provides various benefits in the competitive advantages, such as enhance efficiency, control
like using GPS gives an unprecedented control level over the mobile units from a centralized
location (Gao and Zhang, 2021).
As per the above case of Catanza technology company wanted to install or utilize the Global
Positioning system (GPS) model, in this company use various sensors to find or detect garden
edges and also helps in mapping data to navigate without utilization of the wire. This helps the
company to be highly suited and versatile to larger areas.
In Electric wire technology(EW) if company successful in installing Electric wire prototype by
2019Dec, then the commencement of production would be in July 2020. If the development of
prototype for the EW solution took until 2020 June, then the commencement of production
would be in 2021 Jan. Cost of retooling and production line for EW solution could be $1.25m
and expected selling unit could be $3500. Similarly if company catanza successful in installing
the GPS prototype by Dec 2019, commencement of production would be in Jan 2021. If the
development of prototype for GPS solution take in Dec 2020, the the commencement of
production would not take till 2022 Jan. Cost of production line set and retooling for solution
could be $2.7m and expected selling units of GPS could be $14000.
Net present value and expected value of EW Model:
Option1 Production ready by December and sales by July 2020 ('000,000)
It shows the good market condition as 80%. from the year 2019 to 2025 which represents the
company overall inflows and outflows of cash, companies net cash flow. In this the working
capital ( discounted rate) is 8%, Net present value $40.01 which indicates the difference amount
between the sum of discounted cash inflows and outflows, Internal rate of return is 204% which
helps the company to estimate the profitability of investment and payback period is 1 year which
required to recover the original investment of cash.
Option2 shows the poor market conditions as 20% from the year 2019 to 2025 which also shows
the company cash inflows and outflows. Discounted rate at 8%, Net present value is $ 16.44,
expected rate is $3.29, internal rate of return 95% and payback period of 2 years (Griol-Barres,
Milla and Millet, 2019).
Option3 shows again good market conditions as 65% from year 2018 to 2025 which shows the
company net cash flow, Rate of discount 8%, Net present value which is $ 32.50, Expected value

is $ 21.13. Internal rate of return 80% with the pay back period of 1.91 year (Karunathilake and
et.al., 2020).
Option4 shows the poor condition of market as 35% from 2019 to 2025 which shows the
companies net cash flow, discounted rate as 8%, net present value $ 14.90. expected value $5.21
with internal rate of return of 72%, and pay back period of year 2.45.
Net Present value and Expected value of GPS model
Option5 Production ready by december and sale by Jan 2021, shows the good condition of
market as 65% from year 2019 to 2025 which represents the companies net cash flow balance,
discounted rate of 8%, net present value which is $ 55.61, expected value $36.15, internal rate of
return is 124%, and the pay back period of 1.6 year.
Option6 shows the poor market conditions as 35% from the year 2019 to 2025 which shows net
cash flow, discounted rate of 8%, net present value $23.59, Internal rate of return 67% with the
pay back period of 2.29 years.
Option7 Production ready by December and sale by Jan 2022, shows the good market condition
as 50% which represents the net cash flow, discounted rate of 8%, Net present value $35.59,
expected value of $17.80, internal rate of return 77% with the pay back period of 1.79 years.
Option8 shows the poor condition of market as 50%, which represents the net cash flow,
discounted rate of 8%, net present value of $ 12.97, Expected value $6.48, Internal rate of return
42%, with pay back period of 1.44 year.
e) SMART Analysis
Smart analysis refers to the main four parameters such as self-monitoring, Analysis and
Reporting. Basically smart analysis is an effective monitoring system which includes computer
hard disk drives, solid-state drives, emcee drives, which has primary function is to report and
detect different indicators of drives reliability with the intent of anticipating imminent hardware
failures (Kauffmann and et.al., 2020). It states that when SMART data shows a possible drive
imminent failure, software running on the host system may get notify the user so that the
preventive action can be taken to prevent the loss of data, and the failing drive can be replaced
and there is maintenance of data integrity. This is an effective technique which removes
guesswork and generalities, establish and maintain a effective timeline, and make it simpler to
track the progress and helps in searching out missed milestones.

 Failures which are Unpredictable comes without warning due to anything from the
components of electronic becoming defective to a sudden failure of mechanical, which
also includes failures which relates to the improper handling.
 Failures which are Predictable which shows results from the slow processes like gradual
degradation of storage surface (Li and Kinzelbach, 2020). Determination of monitoring
can determine when all such kind of failures are becoming more likely. It is essential to
understand that the process of decision is iterative. There some essential stages of of
decision making techniques:
identification of decision maker: This states that the person is responsible for the conducting
the analysis of decision must be called from the vary starting of the analysis.
Identification of alternatives: The various courses of plan and actions or set of alternatives and
projects should be identified.
Identification of relevant evaluation criteria: This states that the relevant criteria for the
problems of decision should be identified, so that each and every alternatives defined effectively
and efficiently.
Numerical Assessment of the performance of every alternative on each and every criterion:
This states that for the each and every identified criteria, values for the performance of every
alternative on that criteria have to be calculated.
Assignment of importance weights for each and every evaluation criteria: This states that
each and every criteria must be assigned with a weighting that shows and reflects its importance
which is relative to the decision maker (Liang and Wang, 2019).
Calculation of weighted average of the value that is assigned to each and every alternatives:
These calculation makes it possible to analyse or measures how effective and well one
alternative performs in comparison to the other alternative, at the time when performance is
measured in all defined criteria.
Provisional decisions: This is the last stage which states that final decision should not made
before the robustness of the solution.
f) Recommended course of action:
After evaluating both methods it can be observed that the GPS sensing system is more
versatile and flexible for the consumer. It is because it require battery and Electric wired

technology require electricity to start. The consumers did not have enough time so they can use
the wired because some time it can create mess around the lawn. That's the reasons GPS sensing
system is used or more recommended then then wired. It is also easy use and make the work of
the consumer more easier. The wired model can also damage the health of the consumer because
the wires can catch the fire in the rainy season due to short circuits. But the wire model is free to
use and also have large capacity then wired for covering the lawn area.
2. Discuss in detail the strengths and limitations of your analysis in the context of the problem
faced by your organisation/Catanza Technologies:
Advantages are as follows:
1. The very first advantage of these prototype model is that by this model the
organisation can easily find out their errors and mistakes done by the companies.
It reduce the chances for losing the money in the business and increase the more
and more chance of earning profit (Niu and et.al., 2021).
Electrical wire and GPS sensing system is very flexible in nature. By the help of these systems
the business organisation are earning hue profits. It is because the demand of these systems are
increasing regularly. It also satisfy the customers because the customers get all the feature which
they wants from the Catanza company.
2. These Electric wire prototype and GPS sensing models helps in bringing the
efficiency and effectiveness through which the time consumption of the consumer
get decrease and they can utilise their remaining time in some productive work .
That 's why the demand of the products of the Catanza technologies are increasing
regularly.
3. Both of these methods increases the accuracy and consumer became totally
reliable on them . It is because it make these systems make the work of the
consumer more easy which also reduce the their burden and they can do their
work freely when ever they wants. Due to these feature the robotic mowing
machine's quality is increasing continuously (Pérez-Álvarez and et.al., 2018).
Disadvantages are as follows-
1. The main disadvantage of Electric wiring perimeters in Catanza technology is that
it need for the high power transformation downstream from the motors that

develop or establish low torque or high speed to save or effective utilization of
magnet, laminates mass, coper (Rabbani, Sadati, and Farrokhi-Asl, 2020).
2. The electric wire technology is not portable as the units must be plugged into the
high power networks and outlets in order to the effective functioning. Moving of
unites take time, information-technology personnels, potential and energy. The
arrangements of these hard-wired needs equipments difficult. High level of
frequency switching of high current electromagnetic interferences.
3. Using of GPS on battery operator devices, they may cause battery failure and
company may require external supply of power which is always possible for the
company to arrange because it requires high cost.
4. GPS system sometimes leads to Inaccuracy as the signals are not accurate due to
some of difficulties like in many times by the extreme atmospheric conditions,
buildings, geomagnetic storms.
CONCLUSION
From the above report it can be concluded that the Catanza Technologies have take the
right decision for expanding their business operations in the robotic industries. This decision of
the company taken after the proper market research. It is not easy for the every businesses to get
the success because it require effective and efficient key persons of the company. If the Key
managerial persons of the company are sufficient enough then they not be able to survive in the
market for longer period. After analysing the problems of the company it can be observed that all
these issues can solved by the proper operation management of the company. The analysis of
various conditions are also included in the above report. Basically these statements contains both
types of conditions poor or good. It shows that how the business operation work in these
conditions of the business. By the help of this data the top level management of Catanza
Technologies can prepare themselves and face the worst situation of the company confidently.

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