DSCI 304 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Decision Analysis
Class notes Op MGMT October 18, 2016
Problems for exam 2
1. 5S decision analysis
2. 6 assemply line balancing
3. 8 location factor ratings
4. xbar and r charts
Assembly line balancing
-assembly line processes are very repetitive
-job shops: everything is different
-robotics have made assembly lines completely different than what they used to be
when they were all labor oriented
-different types of ways to lay out a warehouse
-process layout all you do is go to the spot where you need to go to
Biggest problem with assembly line =bottle neck
Bottleneck: if machine breaks down or person is abscent, basically anything that
stops a assembly line from flowing smoothly
- sometimes assembly lines designed with bottleneck in them to start with, on
accident, the goal is to structure an assembly line properly
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