BUSI 650 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Total Productive Maintenance, Materials Management, Master Production Schedule
2 Mar 2018
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Lean principles (5: womack and jones (2003, specify value from the customer"s point of view. Lean production: also known as synchronous manufacturing or simple lean, toyota production line. Design for manufacturability (dfm: also known as design for assembly (dfa, considerations about the manufacturability of the part or product. Layout: follows the job shop approach of using widely spread-out equipment with space for stockrooms, tool cribs, and work in process inventories between the equipment. Workforce: means of uncovering and solving problems. Inventories: seen as evil in japan because it sits idle wasting money, used to buffer operations so that problems at one stage don"t affect the next stage, hide problems such as defective parts. Is the focus in traditional firms: typically complex and computerized. Control: focus in lean approach, procedures are kept simple and visual and made as routine as possible, attempts to respond to what actually happens in real time with flexible, quick operations.
