Production
What is Production?
The creation of goods using land, labor, materials, capital,entrepreneurship, and knowledge (factors of production)
What is Operations Management?
A specialized area in management that converts or transforms resources into goods and services
What does CAD mean / stand for?
The use of computers in the design of products.
Assembly Line Layout
Workers do only a few tasks at a time
This is the only fruit that bears it's seeds on the outside.
Strawberry
What is Production Management?
All the activities managers engage in to help firms create goods
What does it consist of?
Inventory management
Quality control
Production scheduling
Follow-up services
What is Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAM)
The use of computers in the manufacturing of products
Modular Layout
Teams produce more complex units of final product
This is the only U.S. state that grows coffee.
Hawaii
The production process
Inputs-> Production Control-> Outputs
What is the objective?
Provide high quality goods and services in response to customer demand
What is Computer-Integrated Manufacturing (CIM)
Uniting of computer-aided design with computer-aided manufacturing
CAD & CAM united
Expensive!
Cuts up to 80% of time to program machines to make parts
Layout Options
Modular Layout
Assembly Line Layout
Fixed-Position Layout
This animal is the only marsupial in North America. No seriously they're not all dead.
Opossum
Continuous Processes
Long production runs turn out finished goods over time
Purchasing is
Function that:
searches for high-quality material resources
finds the best suppliers
negotiates best price for goods and services
Production problems
When things are not ideal
Fixed-Position Layout
Allows workers to congregate around product
This vertebrae lives the longest.
Tortise
Intermittent Processes
Production runs are short and the producer adjusts machines frequently to make different products
What problems does this solve?
Facility location
Facility layout
Materials requirement planning
Purchasing
Inventory control
Quality control
Technology benefits
Robotics allows manufacturing to occur 24 hours/day
Sensors can detect problems immediately
Changes made quickly
Nanomanufacturing can manipulate material on molecular level
What is facility layout
Physical arrangement of resources, including people, to most efficiently produce goods and provide services
This large country is the world's leading producer of bananas.
India