Process Design - How do volume and variety affect process design?

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High-contact processes where customers spend a considerable time in the service process is called?

Professional service

What deals with discrete, usually highly customized products; often with a relatively long timescale between the completion of each item, where each job has a well-defined start and finish. 

project processes

Many customer transactions, involving limited contact time and little customization is called?

Mass services
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That many of the more important elements of process design are strongly related to the volume-variety position of the process is the underlying idea of?

Product-process matrix

......... have even higher volume and usually lower variety than mass processes.

Continuous process

Each product has to share the operation’s resources with many others in the ..... process

Jobbing process

Each part of the process has periods when it is repeating itself, at least while the ‘batch’ is being processed in?

Batch processing

Those which produce items in high volume and relatively narrow variety have which process?

Mass process

Name a batch process example

kitchen

What are the Manufacturing Processes? From High-Low variety

1) Project processes
2) Jobbing processes
3) Batch processes
4) Mass processes
5) Continuous

What are the service process types? name from high variety to low

  • professional service
  • service shop
  • mass service

Name for each process type a example? professional service, service shop, mass service

  • consultancy
  • gym
  • call centre

What is process mapping?

Involves describing processes in terms of how the activities within the process relate for each other

What are these process mapping symbols? arrow, circle, half-circle triangle.

transport, operation (add value), delay, storage

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