Lc. 6: Production Planning and Design Flashcards
What is a job shop?
A functional or process based production layout. Locating similar machines in same departments. Optimal for responsiveness.
What is a flow shop?
A product based production layout. Resources are arranged according to the sequent of the operations, e.g. assembly line. Optimal for efficiency.
What are the 4 principles of scientific management?
Replace rules-of-thumb with optimal methods
Scientifically train and develop
Cooperate with workers
Divide work; mangers manage, workers work.
Lean
A production strategy trying to remove everything that does not add value, and focus only on value adding processes.
Why does Lean focus on productivity rather than on quality:
Because improved productivity leads to leaner operations, which help to expose further waste and quality problems.
How does improvement work in Lean?
Scientific and hypothesis-based problem-solving, with involvement on worker-level.
Explain mass customization.
A core concept in agile SC strategies. different finished products from largely mass-produced products.
what is a decoupling point?
In a standardized, agile production system, the decoupling point is the point at which production moves from the base product to the customised products.
What are the three A’s of SCM?
Agility
Adoptivity
Allignment
Explain when to apply lean and when to apply agile.
Use lean for predictable demand and functional products, use agile for uncertain demand and innovative products.
Explain Leagile and when to use it.
Leagile combines agile and lean, and should be used with unpredictable demand and long lead times. A leagile production will have a decoupling point, hence upstream activities will be lean, and downstream activities will be agile.
What is a fixed positions layout?
A production layout used for products that cannot be moved.
