Process Choice and Layout Decisions in Manufacturing and Services
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Managers face a plethora of choices when deciding on a speific process. What are a few general principles to keep in mind when selecting and implementing a manufacturing process?
2) different manufacturing process have different strengths and weaknesses. Some are best suited to making small numbers of customized products, while others excel manufacturing processes support the overall business strategy.
3) The manufacture of a particular item might require many different types of manufacturing processes, spread over multiple sites and organizations in the supply chain.
What has changed in manufacturing over the past 20 years?
What is the continuous flow process (manufacturing process)?
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What are Flexible manufacturing systems (FMSs)?
What is a production line?
they follow first a Product-based layout where resources are arranged sequentially according to the steps required to make a product
What is batch manufacturing (manufacturing process)?
e.g. 50 engines are build by the same machine. After all engines went through the machine, the entire batch will be moved to the next machine, etc.
low batch is less than 500 units
high batch is more then 500 units
What are two drawbacks of product lines?
2) lines are inflexible with regard to products that do not fit the design characteristics of the production line
What is the continuous flow processes?
Appart from that job shops must be very flexible in their planning. Job shops typically follow a functional layout what is this?
What is a hybrid manufacturing process?
What are the machining centres?
What is the level of customer contact?
as the degree of customer contact increases -> more of the service package is provided in the front room. Decreases -> more are provided by back-room operations.
What is group technology?
What is the front- and back room about?
Back room = part of a service operation that is completed without direct customer contact. (package sorting ad FedEx, testing medicine, etc)
What is a product family?
One of the most interesting developments in manufacturing in recent years is 3D printing what is 3D printing?
What are the four levels of customizaiton and what does it mean?
assemble-to-order (ATO) or finished-to-order products= products that are customized only ate the very end of the manufacturing process.
make-to-order (MTO) products= products that use standard components but have customer-specific final configuration of those components
Engineer-to-order (ETO)= products that are designed and produced from the start to meet unusual customer needs or requirements. They represent the highest level of customization.
What are downstream activities?
Completing activities offline has two advantages what are those?
2) law of variability, -> according to roger schmenner and Morgan Swink, 'the greater the random variability either demanded of the process or inherent in the process itself or in the items processed, the less productive the process is.' This law is relevant to customization because competing activities offline helps isolate these activities from the variability caused by either the timing or the unique requirements of individual customers
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