MGT 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 59: Job Shop
10 Jun 2018
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• Flexibility of Manufacturing Operations:
➢ Manufacturing Flexibility: the degree to which manufacturing operations
can easily & quickly change the number, kind, & characteristics of products
they produce.
o Allows companies to respond quickly to changes in marketplace.
▪ Respond to competitors & customers.
o Also allows companies to reduce lead time between ordering & final
delivery of products.
o There is often a trade-off between flexibility & cost.
▪ The most flexible manufacturing operations frequently have higher
costs per unit.
▪ The least flexible operations have lower costs per unit.
o Most production processes generate finished products at a discrete rate.
o A product is completed & then— perhaps a few seconds , minutes, or
hours later—another is completed & soon.
▪ Some common manufacturing operations, arranged in order from the
least flexible to the most flexible, are:
1. Continuous-Flow Production: products are produced
continuously rather than at a discrete rate.
❖ Production of final product never stops.
2. Line-Flow Production:
❖ Processes are pre-established.
❖ Processes occur in a serial or linear manner.
❖ Processes are dedicated to making 1 type of product.
◆ Despite their many advantages, processes are the most
standardized & least flexible manufacturing operations.
◆ Inflexible b/c they’re typically dedicated to manufacturing
1 kind of product.
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