Management and Organizational Studies 1021A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Flexible Manufacturing System, Job Shop, Job Design

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 1021A/B
• Professor: May Tajima

Document Summary

Manufacturing technology product design basics introduction classification by type of product flow approach to customer orders amount of customization our focus classification by volume and standardization intermittent operation : low standardization&low volume labour intensive faster processing and low material handling cost, but resources are highly specialized and inflexible. cannot repspond to repaid change in need. project process: (one at a time): shipbuilding medical procedure construction job shop batch process (small quantity of products in batches based on actual or expected customer orders): education printing shop general purposes technology adoption: group technology: one type of manufaturing technology continous operation : high standardization&high volume capital intensive. For continous operations hybrid between process and product layout : fixed position layout: when product is too big and hard to move. e. g. brige construction. retail layout: located based on customer behaviour cell layout: grouping product based on similar requirement manufacuturing technology group technology.