Management and Organizational Studies 3330A/B Final: Exam 3

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 3330A/B
• Professor: Bernd Marcus

Document Summary

Type of product flow (fixed position, jumbled flow, line flow, continuous flow) Batch: small quantity of products in batches based on actual or expected customer orders. Mass: large volume of a standardized product, assembly line format. Continuous: continually producing a large volume of a fully standardized product. Process layout: group resources based on similar processes. Cell layout: grouping of products based on similar requirements. Fixed position layout: used when product is too big and cannot be easily moved. Retail layout: allocation of space based on customer demand. Grouping of dissimilar automated machines to produce a family of parts. Numerous programmable machine tools connected by an automated materials handling system. Integration of product design, process planning, and manufacturing through computers. Process selection: dependent on cost, volume, product maturity level, labour, technology factors. Processing of defining all of the product"s characteristics. Concurrent engineering: multifunctional team approach to simultaneously design the product and the process.