The Domain of Production and Operations Management Flashcards
carry on their world on their social and economic environment.
Product and Operation managers
Their jobs require managing the organization’s resources, people, money, physical property, and the production of products and services.
Product and Operation managers
The production system is characterized by:
1) A material transformation process
2) A degree of repetitiveness
3) An information system superimposed on the physical system
4) A material process flow.
Managing the resources needed to produce goods and services is called
production/operations management
“father of scientific management”
Frederick Taylor,
he said that management is knowing exactly what you want men to do and then seeing to it
that they do it in the best and cheapest way.
Frederick Taylor
Management is often described as consisting of:
a) Planning and establishing goals or objectives.
b) Organizing input resources and staffing.
c) Directing or motivating people to perform to attain those goals.
d) Controlling the performance or comparing actual progress with planned performance.
not confined to the manufacturing of products.
Production and operations management activities
carried on in manufacturing companies form the backbone of our consumer society through the production of a broad array of products.
production activities
aim is to create the end product in the market in the right quantity, of the right quality, at the right time,
economically.
production manager’s
top management work involving all sectors of the firm, that is, the finance, marketing, production and technical departments.
Product Planning
Production performs a stellar role in the development of the product.
Product Planning
naturally comes after product design.
Process Planning
involves determining required
machines, tools, men and methods. The determination of the general flow of work,
materials, and specific work content and methods are essential to process planning.
Process Planning
cost of plant facilities can considerably deplete the
firm’s financial reserves the arrangement of these facilities
Physical Facilities Management
must consider the heavy investment or manufacturing
facilities.
production managers
Plan location, engineering economics, plant layout, plant engineering, and materials
handling comprise this area of activity.
Physical Facilities Management
involves forecasting the demand for the company’s
product and converting the forecast
Production Planning
Sometimes this process is referred to as loading or routing.
Production Planning and Control
The aspect of the production manager’s work referred to as production
control includes.
- Scheduling the required work
- Giving the go signal to start and providing the necessary instructions to the different manufacturing sectors (dispatching)
- Checking on the progress and initiating corrective measures to ensure the effective and efficient use of the various factors of production and the delivery of the product on the stipulated date.
responsible for the provision of the correct product quality to the consumer
Quality Control
This includes the determination and specification of quality standards as well as maintenance
Quality Control
There are ten ways of skinning a cat, so the saying goes.
Methods Improvement
There are as many ways of producing a product, but not all these are equally attractive and economical.
Methods Improvement
Labor is one of the most important resources that the production manager employs.
Work Measurement
It is one of the cost associated with the production activity.
Work Measurement
To control labor cost, one must know how much he can expect from a worker.
Work Measurment
Inventories serve to decouple successive operations in the process of making a product and getting it to the consumer.
Materials Management
Too much inventory on hand or too little of it can both have a crippling effect on the company’s operation.
Materials Management
The production manager is expected to schedule
production activities so that manufacturing can be expected to purchase a raw
materials
Materials Management
