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Production and Operations Management
• What is the current state of manufacturing in the United States?
Activity in the nation’s manufacturing sector has declined since its height.
they have become more productive,
meaning that they need fewer employees to do the same amount of work
• What have U.S. manufacturers done to achieve increased output?
U.S. manufacturers have increased output by emphasizing close relationships with suppliers and other companies to satisfy customer needs
continuous improvement
quality
site selection
use of the Internet to unite
companies
production techniques
enterprise resource planning
computer-integrated manufacturing
flexible manufacturing
lean
manufacturing
robotics
• What is production management?
consists of all the activities managers do to help
their firms create goods
What is process manufacturing, and how does it differ from assembly
processes?
Process manufacturing physically or chemically changes materials. Assembly processes put together components.
• What kind of firms use operations managers?
Firms in both the manufacturing and service sectors use operations
managers.
• What is operations management?
is the specialized area in management that converts or transforms resources, including human resources, into goods and
services.
• How do CAD/CAM systems work?
Design changes made in computer-aided design (CAD) are instantly incorporated into the computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) process. The linking of CAD and CAM is computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM).
• What is flexible manufacturing?
Flexible manufacturing means designing machines to produce a variety of
products.
• What is lean manufacturing?
Lean manufacturing is the production of goods using less of everything than in mass production: less human effort, less manufacturing space, less investment in tools, and less engineering time to develop a new product.
• What is mass customization?
Mass customization means making custom-designed goods and services for a large number of individual customers
• How do robotics help make manufacturers more competitive?
Industrial robotics can work 24 hours a day, seven days a week, with great precision. Most of the jobs they replace are dirty or so repetitive that robots are necessary, or at least helpful.
• What is facility location and how does it differ from facility layout?
is the process of selecting a geographic location for a company’s operations
• How do managers evaluate different sites?
Labor costs and land costs are two major criteria
• What is just-in-time (JIT) inventory control?
JIT requires suppliers to deliver parts and materials just in time to go on the assembly line so they don’t have to be stored in warehouses.