BU398 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Job Rotation, Everwood, Workflow
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Core technology: the work process that is directly related to the organization"s mission, such as teaching in high school, medical services, or manufacturing. Non-core technology: a department work process that is important to the organization but is not directly related to its central mission, such as hr, marketing, r&d, and accounting. Core organization manufacturing technology: they include traditional manufacturing processes and contemporary applications, such as flexible manufacturing and lean manufacturing. Joan woodward developed a scale and organized the firms according to technical complexity of the manufacturing process: technical complexity is the extent of mechanization of the manufacturing process, group 1: small-batch and unit production. Organic: group 2: large-batch and mass production long production runs of standardized parts. Example: car assembly lines: group 3: continuous-process production. The entire process is mechanized, and there"s no starting and stopping. Automated machines control the process ad outcomes are predictable. 3 subcomponents: computer-aided design (cad, computer-aided manufacturing (cam, integrated information network.
