MGMT 610- OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT 1. What are the differences between job-enlargement‚ job-enrichment‚ and job-rotation? Discuss the benefits of using each of these. Job design is an approach that specifies the tasks that constitute a job for an individual or a group. There are seven components of job design‚ and JOB expansion is one of them. It includes: • Job enlargement: We add tasks requiring similar skill to an existent job. You are using the same skills‚ but the tasks are different
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away from the worker and into separate staff departments. This had the effect of making quality a technical‚ as opposed to managerial‚ function. This thinking carried through Western industry until about 1980. • W. Edwards Deming and Joseph Juran taught techniques of quality control and management to the Japanese in the 1950s. Over the next 20 years‚ Japan made massive improvements in quality‚ while the quality of U.S. products increased at a much slower rate. • Four significant influences
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MMIE – 201 Product Design and Lifecycle Management Unit 1Product Design : Product specifications‚ concept development‚ configuration design involving synthesis‚ analysis and optimization‚ Detailed design‚ Presentation of design‚ Oral and Visual presentations‚ various types of models used in product design‚ Design through creative routes‚ Adaptive and variant design‚ Concurrent Engineering theory. Unit 2Product Lifecycle Management definitions‚ Product data management‚ Evolution of
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K. A. POTOCKI AND R. C. BROCATO QUALITY MANAGEMENT A System of Management for Organizational Improvement Kenneth A. Potocki and Richard C. Brocato F aced with cutbacks in funding‚ escalating costs‚ global competition for limited resources‚ and a demand for higher-quality outcomes‚ organizations of all types have felt the pressure to operate more effectively. Organizational improvement is required. Based upon various management approaches‚ five guiding principles are being used to make
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Total Quality Management “EVALUATE THE PROPOSITION THAT THE USE OF TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES IS ESSENTIAL IN APPLYING TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT.” Assignment One Amy Brown B00557532 Hand in: 06.11.2013 @ 2pm Word Count : 2‚711 Contents Page Introduction ................................................................................................ 1 What is Quality? ......................................................................................... 1 Evolution
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Alfred Sloan of General Motors – electrical engineer The management gurus: many of them were trained as engineers! Michael E Porter – “competitive advantage” – aeronautical/mechanical engineer W. Edward Deming – “quality” - electrical engineer Joseph Juran – “quality” – electrical engineer Henry Mintzberg – “strategic management” – mechanical engineer Tom Peters – “Excellence” – civil engineer F.W. Taylor – “scientific management”‚ “time motion study” – mechanical engineer (?) Henry Fayol – “Industrial
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Introduction Before the concepts and ideas of TQM were formalised‚ much work had taken place over the centuries to reach this stage. This section charts the evolution‚ from inspection through to the present day concepts of total quality. From inspection to total quality During the early days of manufacturing‚ an operative’s work was inspected and a decision made whether to accept or reject it. As businesses became larger‚ so too did this role‚ and full time inspection jobs were created. Accompanying
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Execution Test Tools and Automation Test Team Organization and Management Software Testing and QA Theory and Practice (Chapter 1: Basic Concepts and Preliminaries) © Naik & Tripathy 2 The Quality Revolution • • • Started in Japan by Deming‚ Juran‚ and Ishikawa during 1940s In 1950s‚ Deming introduced statistical quality control to Japanese engineers Statistical quality control (SQC) is a discipline based on measurement and statistics – SQC methods use seven basic quality management tool •
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accessed December 21‚ 2010 http//www.iso.org/iso/home.htm‚ accessed December 24‚ 2010 International Systems Organisation (2000) ISO 9001‚ Quality Management System Requirements‚ 3rd Edition‚ Geneva‚ 335 – 345 Juran J. M. (1986) The Quality Trilogy‚ Quality Progress 19 Volume 18 August 1986‚ 19 – 24 Juran M Kubal M. T. ( 1994) Engineered Quality in Construction‚ 1st Edition‚ McGraw-Hill‚ New York Lapin L Lombard F. (2006) Managing the Quality of Engineering on Large Construction Projects in the South African
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National Innovation Systems Group 1: Angela M. Zimbleman Deniro Chase Revanth Mahareddy Thomas Russo Wonchul Shung Florida International University National Innovation Systems 1) Introduction to the concept of National Innovation Systems 3 2) Brazil and its System of Innovation 10 3) Taiwan’s
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