MGO 302 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Job Satisfaction, Variable Cost, Weighted Arithmetic Mean

• School: University at Buffalo
• Department: Management Operations Analysis
• Course: MGO 302
• Professor: Natalie Simpson

Document Summary

Inflexible: low job satisfaction, more prone to disruptions, major design issue - line balancing (dividing the work) : 8 departments would generate 8! different possible layouts. Fixed position layout: the product or customer doesn"t move. Workers, materials, and machinery move instead: examples: shipbuilding and aircraft manufacturing, advantages, suitable for large projects, can incorporate changes, disadvantages, communication and coordination, major design issue - project management. Cycle time: maximum time allowed at each workstation to perform its assigned tasks, amount of time that passes between the system finishing one unit of product and finishing the next one, smaller cycle time = faster production. Load distance: process layout technique that addresses traffic between areas in the layout, goal is to minimize the score, formula: (v*d), where v = load and d = distance. A: absolutely | e: especially | i: important | o: ordinary.