Job Shop Production usually refers to manufacturers that produce items that are "one of a kind"‚ for example‚ manufactures of automation systems and tooling. Manufacturers who produce a wide variety of items in very low volumes also fall into the job shop category. For example‚ very large mining trucks are produced in volumes typically less than 400 annually. Each truck has thousands of components so you can imagine that there are significant challenges in production scheduling‚ purchasing and inventory
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Investment Office ANRS PROJECT PROFILE ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF SOYBEAN PRODUCTION FARM Development Studies Associates (DSA) October 2008 Addis Ababa Table of Contents 1. Executive Summary...........................................................................................1 2. Product Description and Application ..............................................................1 3. Market Study‚ Plant Capacity and Production Program..............................2 3.1 Market Study .......
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Case Study – JIT Failure at Sony Ericsson Once one of the world’s leading cell-phone manufacturers‚ Ericsson knows only too well how painful a disruption in the supply chain can be. It is a story that has become something of a legend in supplychain circles. In March 2000‚ a lightning bolt struck a Philips Electronics semiconductor plant in Albuquerque‚ N.M.‚ triggering a small fire in a chip-processing machine that took the plant offline for months. Although the plant was Ericsson’s sole supplier
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Harvesting Cacao is Hard Work We tend to think of chocolate making as an assembly-line process. Most people picture automated presses plopping out candies onto conveyor belts at speeds unmatched by humans. But before cacao reaches the machinery of a chocolate factory‚ it must first pass through the hands of a farmer. Making chocolate takes years of manual labor. Like most agricultural crops‚ cacao must be closely monitored by farmers. They regularly walk their fields and check for pests‚
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Music Production Techniques 1 Assessment 3 – Portfolio Section A Dynamic Microphone So we are in the studio rearing to go‚ our musicians are well practiced and have a great track ready to lay down. As an engineer or a producer we need to decide what is the best possible way to capture the sound we want from the band. We are faced with a number of challenges at this point‚ such as where are we going to set the instruments up in the room? What order shall we record the artists in? What is the
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PRODUCTION & OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT Forecasting helps managers and businesses develop meaningful plans and reduce uncertainty of events in the future. Managers want to match supply with demand; therefore‚ it is essential for them to forecast how much space they need for supply to each demand. 1.1 QUANTITATIVE TECHNIQUES * LINEAR TREND Show steady‚ straight-line increases or decreases where the trend-line can go up or down and the angle may be steep or shallow
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when to order what supplies from whom to bring products to the market. Assof [1957]‚ he sees diversification as being one of four possible growth strategies of a business‚ these are; market penetration‚ market development‚ product development and diversification. Diversification is the final alternative; it calls for simultaneous departure from a present product line and present market structure. The main aim of diversification in a company is to allow the company to establish
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Production Planning and Control In any manufacturing enterprise production is the driving force to which most other functions react. This is particularly true with inventories; they exist because of the needs of production. In this chapter the relationship of production planning and control to work-in-process inventories is stressed. Objectives of Production Planning Control: The ultimate objective of production planning and control‚ like that of all other manufacturing controls‚ is to
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or similar good/service. Lower Price and better quality of a product will ensure and higher profitability. To estimate the actual cost of production‚ the operations manager must address labour‚ materials‚ scrap generations‚ overhead and other initial cost of design and development. QUALITY is defined by the customer. The Operations Manger mainly looks into two aspects namely highly performance design and Consistent quality. High Performance design includes superior features‚ great durability‚ and
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Toyota Production System The Toyota Production System (TPS) is an integrated socio-technical system‚ developed by Toyota‚ that comprises its management philosophy and practices. The TPS organizes manufacturing and logistics for the automobile manufacturer‚ including interaction with suppliers and customers. The system is a major precursor of the more generic "Lean manufacturing." Taiichi Ohno‚ Shigeo Shingo and Eiji Toyoda developed the system between 1948 and 1975. Originally called "Just In Time
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