BU385 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Geographic Information System, Computer Hardware, Canadian Natural Resources
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Process design: determines the form and function of how production of goods or services occurs sequence of operations. Occurs when new product, change or redesign, technological change, quality improvement. Make or buy: insourcing or outsourcing determining whether to buy or make the product. Reduce bottleneck: parallel workstations, create mixed model line by adding more products or cross train to allow dynamic line balancing. Job shop: low quantity of high variety customized goods. Process is intermittent; work shifts from one small job to next; each with diferent requirements; in a sequence. Challenge; schedule jobs so that due dates are met and resources utilized. Batch process: moderate quantity and variety of goods desired. Equipment does not need to be lexible but process intermittent; one job depends on other. Example is a bakery; or movie theatre or plane. Challenge is scheduling batches in order to meet demand while utilizing resources. Slight lexibility of equipment, skilled workers are low.
