ECON 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Ob River, Business Process
Document Summary
Productions lines type of manufacturing process used to produce a narrow range of standard. 5 classic manufacturing processes items with identical or highly similar designs: follow product based layout (resources are arranged sequentially according to the steps required to make a product, cycle time = actual time between completions of successive units. Ideally suited to the high volume production of a single products: very inflexible. Main difference is the form of the product, which usually cannot be broken into discrete units. (yarns, fabric, food products, chemical products like gas and oil: less flexible than production line, highly technical nature, highly capital intensive. Used to make a wide variety of highly customized products in quantities as small as one. Job shops are characterized by general purpose equipment and workers who are broadly skilled: depend on highly flexible equipment and personnel, follow a functional layout, where resources are physically grouped by. Items are moved through the different manufacturing steps in groups or.
