RSM100Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Canada Green Building Council, Flexible Manufacturing System, Centralisation
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Production: the use of resources, such as workers and machinery, to convert materials into finished goods and services. Production and operations management: the process of overseeing the production process by managing the people and machinery that convert materials and resources into finished goods and services. The production proves always converts inputs into outputs. Mass production: a system for manufacturing products in large quantities by using effective combinations of employees with specialized skills, mechanization, and standardization (outputs become cheaper). Specialization of work divides up work into its simplest forms so that each worker can focus on one task. In mechanization, machines do much of the work previously done by people. Standardization involves producing identical, interchangeable goods and parts. Assembly line (result of spec-, mech-, and standardization): a product moves along a conveyor belt past many workstations, where workers perform specialized tasks (i. e. painting, welding etc.
