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operations function - scientific managementthe operations function a short account was given of the work of frederick winslow taylor 1911 in the
economic feasibility and behavioural feasibilityeconomic feasibility the value added by the job should exceed by an acceptable margin the costs
determine the layout decisionconsider a layout decision which has been made in your own organisation how was the layout devised what were the key
what effect does your organisations facility layout have on the following where appropriate inter-process movement health amp safety congestion
connected flow and disconnected flow systemsuch systems deliver very low unit costs they are vulnerable because of the absence of work-in-progress
product layout - process designwhere the volume of output is high as in large-batch and continuous operations it becomes economically viable to lay
fixed-position layout this configuration is typically used for low-volume project-type operations where the product being produced is massive and
layout planning - facility layoutlayout planning occurs at three levels of detail 1 layout of departments on the site for a public house as an
ambience of the physical surroundings - facility layoutdeacutecor noise levels music temperature and lighting may affect the customers judgement of
maximum product exposure - facility layout in layout of retail stores basic purchases and check-out stations are often positioned remote from the
facility layout - process designin addition to the sequence of the processes consideration must also be given to their physical layout in relation to
of processes - make or buywhen henry ford developed his famous moving assembly-line method of producing the model t car at the river rouge plant
alternative process sequences - servicesjust as in the selection of processes for product production typically there will be alternative ways of
process configurations - servicesschmenners service - process matrix was introduced categorising service operations by the degree of labour intensity
process configurations - products the categorisation of production systems according to volume of output was discussed project job shop batch and
statistical process control - mean and range charts1 spc can be used as a means of preventing product non-conformance 2 causes of variability may
process planningin the design of processes there is a certain similarity to the design of products in that there is a hierarchy of design stages at
alternative control chart constructionsin this treatment of the subject description has been of charts with both warning and action limits and these
number of defects - control chartsometimes the attribute of concern is the number of defects c in an item rather than the number of defective items
number defective - np chartthis type of chart can be used when it is possible to establish a constant sample size n it has the advantage that it is
control charts for attributes - statistical process controlattribute data assume only two values such as passfail or goodbad they are counted rather
process capability - statistical process controlthe controls charts described so far are concerned with maintaining the stability of a process but
control charts for variables two complementary charts are commonly used for the statistical control of process variables one controls the process
range - statistical aspects of variabilitythe range is simply the difference between the highest and lowest measurements recorded let us say that in
mean value - statistical aspects of variabilitythe arithmetical mean value micro mu of the measurements can be readily calculated as follows let the