Manufacturing and service processes

Question 1

What types of firms do we have?

Answer 1

Make-to-Stock -> serves customer from finished inventory

Assemble-to-order - Preassembled modules to meet customer specifications

Make-to-order - Customer desides product of raw materials, parts and components.

Engineer-to-order - work with the customer to design and make the product. Fex a tailor

Question 2

What is Lead time?

Answer 2

The time needed to response to a customer order

Question 3

Customer order decoupling point

Answer 3

inventory is positioned to allow entities to operate independently

Question 4

Lean manufacturing

Answer 4

A means of achieving high levels of customer service with minimal inventory investment

Question 5

Issue in A-T-O?

Answer 5

Issue in Satisfying customers : to balance the level of inventory against the level of customer service

Question 6

how is production process organized?

Answer 6

Project, workcenter, manufacturing cell, assembly line, continuous process