MAN 4504 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Job Shop
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Chapter 6 notes: process selection and facility layout. Process selection: refers to deciding on the way production of goods or services will be organized. It has major implications for: capacity planning, layout of facilities, equipment, design of work systems. Abel to handle a wide variety of work. Diadvantages slow, high cost per unit, complex planning and scheduling. Flexibility; easy to add or change products or services. It allows us to use labor and equipment more efficiently: to avoid fairness issues that arise when one workstation must work harder than another. Cycle time: the maximum time allowed at each workstation to complete its set of tasks on a unit to complete its set of tasks on a unit, cycle time also establishes the output rate of a line. Cycle time = operating time per day / desired output rate. Output rate = operating time per day / cycle time.
