[OPER 1021] - Midterm Exam Guide - Ultimate 21 pages long Study Guide!
7 Feb 2017
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A process is a series of actions that transform inputs to outputs. The process of producing physically goods is typically called manufacturing or production operations. Processes that perform services are called service operations. Project: one of a kind working a limited time frame. Job shop: small scale, highly flexible. Repetitive/assembly line: high volume, standardized goods or services. Continuous: very high volume, standardized non discrete goods. The configuration of departments, work centers, and equipment. Advantages: high utilization of specialized labor and equipment, low material handling cost and wip inventory, low unit cost. Advantages: system can handle a variety of processing requirements, not particularly vulnerable to equipment failures, general purposes equipment often less costly. Workers, materials, and equipment are brought to it. A process flow chart is a graphical representation of the structure of the process. The first step in analyzing a process is constructing a process flow chart. An activity on a flow chart is typically treated as an indivisible task.
