INTG 202 Chapter Notes - Chapter Managing Processes : Fabless Manufacturing, Mass Customization, Xilinx

• School: McGill University
• Department: Integrated Management
• Course: INTG 202
• Professor: Miwako Uesaka

Document Summary

Firms exist to create and deliver value. Operations management focused on the means, the underlying processes by which firms create and deliver value. Transforms input: labour, capital, materials, and info, into outputs: product and service. Draw out the existing process, process-mapping or process-flow: eg. Cutting sewing pack and ship, inventory between steps. Clearly define the process boundaries, take into consideration managerial goals. Assumption that a worker can arrive at his or her station and immediately continue working on whatever unit he or she was working on at the end of the previous day. Run time: the time it takes to process an item at a process step: measured in time per unit, valuable for verifying that calculations are performed correctly. Independent of any setup times that may be involved in the process. Analyze in isolation first to find a simplified way to determine the capacity of the process without having to get into the details of scheduling of work.