BUSI 5301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, Small Batch Whiskey, Mass Production
15 Mar 2016
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Technology- the tools, techniques, machines, and actions used to transform inputs (materials, information, ideas) into outputs (products and services). Technology includes things as machinery, employee education, and work procedures. Core technology- the work process that is directly related to the mission. Joan woodward"s classic study classified manufacturing firms into: Continuous process technologies- automated machines control a continuous. Woodward discovered that technology was related to structure and performance, and was based on technical complexity (extent of mechanization and predictability of manufacturing process. Mass production firms tended to be more formalized, centralized, mechanistic, had larger span of control and less-educated workers than small batch or continuous process technologies. Successful firms had complimentary structures and technologies have complimentary structures and technologies. Successful small-batch and continuous process organizations tended to have organic structures. Successful mass production organizations tended to have mechanistic structures. Computer- integrated manufacturing- also called manufacturing, agile manufacturing, smart factories or flexible manufacturing systems. Flexible manufacturing is the result of three subcomponents:
