OM 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Automatic Identification System, Automated Guided Vehicle, Flexible Manufacturing System

• School: University of Alabama
• Department: Operations Management
• Course: OM 300
• Professor: David Cooper

Document Summary

Materials as needed system just in time. Process strategy: the objective is to create a process to produce products that meets customer requirements within cost and other managerial constraints. Process strategies: how to produce a product or provide a service that: Meets cost and managerial goals: has long term effects on: Costs and quality: four basic strategies, process focus, repetitive focus, product focus, mass customization. Within these basic strategies there are many ways they may be implemented. Repetitive focus: facilities often organized as assembly lines, characterized by modules with parts and assemblies made previously, modules may be combined for many output options, less flexibility than process-focused facilities but more efficient. Product focus: facilities are organized by product, high volume but low variety of products, long, continuous production runs enable efficient processes, typically high fixed cost but low variable cost, generally less skilled labor.