LESSON 4: Methods and Standard Scope Flashcards
Methods Engineering includes
designing, creating, and selecting the best manufacturing methods, processes, tools, equipment and skills to manufacture a product based on the working drawings that have been developed by the product engineering section.
*The overall procedure includes:
- defining the problem
- breaking the job down into operations
- analysing each operation to determine the most economical manufacturing procedures for the quantity involved with due regard for operator safety and job interest
- applying proper time values
- following thorough to assure that the prescribed method is put into operation
Also included is the responsibility for following through to see that:
- predetermined standards are met
- workers are adequately compensated for their output,skills,responsibilities and experience;
- workers have a feeling of satisfaction from the work that they do
are frequently used synonymously.
Terms operation analysis, work design, and simplification and methods engineering and corporate re-engineering
Referring to a technique for increasing the production per unit of time or decreasing the cost per unit output
PRODUCTIVITY IMPROVEMENT
*Implies the utilization of technological capability.
Methods Engineering
What Methods Engineers DO?
*Responsible for designing and developing the various work centers where the product will be produced.
*Engineers must continually restudy the work centers to find a better way to produce the product and/or improve its quality.
*Use systematic procedure to develop a work center, produce a product, or provide a service.
What Methods Engineers DO? The process..
*Select the project
*Get and present the data
*Analyze the data
*Develop the idea
*Present and install the method
*Develop a job analysis
*Establish time standards
*Follow up the method
*Must be used to fit the task and workstation ergonomically to the human operator.
*It is necessary for the methods engineer to incorporate the principles of work design into any new method, so that it not only will be more productive but also will be safe and injury-free for the operator.
Work Design
*They are the end result of time study or work measurement.
*Establishes a time standard allowed to perform a given task, based on measurements of work content of the prescribed method, with due consideration for fatigue and for personal and unavoidable delays.
Standards
*Several techniques of time study analysts:
-stopwatch time study
-Computerized data collection
-Standard data
-Predetermined time systems
-Work sampling
-Estimates based on historical data
*A good time study analysts are good methods engineers!!
*Resulting standards are used to implement a wage payment scheme
Know that!!
Principal Objectives are:
*To increase productivity and product reliability safely
*To lower unit cost, thus allowing more quality goods and services to be produced for more people
Corollaries to the principal objectives:
*Minimize the time required to perform tasks
*Continually improve the quality and reliability of products and services
*Conserve resources and minimize cost by specifying the most appropriate direct and indirect materials for the production of goods and services
*Take the availability of power into careful consideration
*Maximize the safety, health and well-being of all employees
*Produce with an increasing concern for protecting the environment
*Follow a humane program of management that results in job interest and satisfaction for each employee.
