GMS 401 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Aisle, Takt Time, Software
16 Jan 2017
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An organization"s approach to transforming resources into goods and services. To build a production process that fulfills customer requirements, meets product requirements and is within the cost and other managerial constraints. Selected processes will have long-term effect: efficiency of production, flexibility of production, quality of final product, cost of the goods produced. A production facility organized around processes to facilitate low-volume, high-variety production. The vast majority of global production is devoted to making low-volume, high variety products in places called job shops. Tool & die shop: produce one of a kind tools and dies. Emergency room: able to process (deal with) a variety of injuries/diseases. A product-oriented production process that uses modules. The repetitive process is the classic assembly line. Modules: parts or components of a product previously prepared, often in a continuous. It has more structure and consequently less flexibility than a process-focused facility process. Slight equipment management goods or services flexibility. Low wip inventory management variety in output.
