What is the goods, services, and ideas that result from the conversion of inputs.
100
Inventory
What is all raw materials, components, completed or partially completed products, and pieces of equipment a firm uses.
100
Quality Control
What is the processes an organization uses to maintain its established quality standards.
100
Operations
What is the processes used in making both tangible and intangible products.
100
Process Layout
What is a layout that organizes the transformation process into departments that group related processes.
200
Modular Design
What is the creation of an item in self-contained units, or modules, which can be combined or interchanged to create different products.
200
Scheduling
What is the assignment of required tasks to departments or even specific machines, workers, or teams
200
Capacity
What is the maximum load that an organizational unit can carry or operate.
200
Production
What is the activities and processes used in making tangible products; also called manufacturing.
200
Product Layout
What is a layout requiring that production be broken down into relatively simple tasks assigned to workers who are usually positioned along an assembly line.
300
Computer-Assisted Design (CAD)
What is the design of components, products, and processes on computers instead of on paper.
300
Inputs
What is the resources—such as labor, money, materials, and energy—that are converted into outputs.
300
Continuous Manufacturing Organizations
What is companies that use continuously running assembly lines, creating products with many similar characteristics.
300
Purchasing
What is the buying of all materials needed by the organization; also called procurement.
300
Standardization
What is the making of identical, interchangeable components or products.
400
Manufacturing
What is the activities and processes used in making tangible products; also called production.
400
Just-In-Time (JIT) Inventory Management
What is a technique using smaller quantities of materials that arrive “just in time” for use in the transformation process and therefore require less storage space and other inventory management expense.
400
Customization
What is making products to meet a particular customer’s needs or wants
400
ISO 9000
What is a series of quality assurance standards designed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) to ensure consistent product quality under many conditions
400
Routing
What is the sequence of operations through which the product must pass
500
Supply Chain Management
What is connecting and integrating all parties or members of the distribution system in order to satisfy customers.
500
Fixed-Position Layout
What is a layout that brings all resources required to create a product to a central location.
500
Project Organization
What is a company using a fixed-position layout because it is typically involved in large, complex projects such as construction or exploration.
500
Total Quality Management (TQM)
What is a philosophy that uniform commitment to quality in all areas of an organization will promote a culture that meets customers’ perceptions of quality.
500
Quality Control
What is the processes an organization uses to maintain its established quality standards.