CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION TO Operations Management Teaching Notes Many students come to this course with negative feelings‚ perhaps because they have heard that the course includes a certain amount of quantitative material (which many feel uncomfortable with)‚ or perhaps because the course strikes them as “how to run a factory.” Others seem to have very little idea about what operations management is. I view the initial meeting with my classes‚ and this first chapter‚ as opportunities to dispel
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Part 1a Statement 1: “The airport transfers passengers and freight between ground and air.” I agree with statement 1 as stated above. The airport is a facility or a ‘gateway’‚ which bridges passengers and freight from the ground to the aircraft‚ which brings them through the air. At the destination‚ another ‘gateway’ meets them‚ and bridges them from the air back to the ground. The “gateway” uses many other facilities and/or services to ensure a seamless transfer of passenger or freight between
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and labor became highly dependent on jobs and urbanized. At the commencement of the 20th century‚ the one element that was missing was a management (the ability to develop and use the facilities to produce on a maximum capacity to meet massive markets of today.) 1. Frederick Winslow Taylor’s Scientific Management (1911) Frederick W. Taylor’s scientific management theory involved time studies in an attempt to establish the most productive way to undertake a process. • Scientific laws govern work
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centralized or on-site location 4. Whether to inspect attributes or variables * How Much to Inspect? * Typical Inspection Points: * Raw materials and purchased parts * Finished products * Before a costly operation * Before an irreversible process * Before a covering process * Effects on cost and level of disruption are a major issue in selecting centralized vs. on-site inspection * Centralized * Specialized tests that
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FUNCTIONS OF MANAGEMENT Planning It is the basic function of management. It deals with chalking out a future course of action & deciding in advance the most appropriate course of actions for achievement of pre-determined goals. According to KOONTZ‚ “Planning is deciding in advance - what to do‚ when to do & how to do. It bridges the gap from where we are & where we want to be”. A plan is a future course of actions. It is an exercise in problem solving & decision making. Planning
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Operations Management Final Report Case Study (1) Gate Turnaround at Southwest Airlines (Chapter Six) (2) Constraint Management at Southwest Airlines (Chapter Seven) (3) Lean Systems at Autoliv (Chapter Eight) 德瑞克(Derek Silkebaken) D974557 2012年1月2日 Chapter 6 Planning Capacity Video Case: Gate Turnaround at Southwest Airlines Q1. How can Capacity and utilization be measured at an airline such as SWA? Answer: Capacity is the maximum rate of output of a process or a system. And utilization
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and it is integrally related to all the other business functions.All‚organizations market‚finance‚and produce‚and it is important to know how the activity functions. OM let us understand what operations managers do‚regardless of you job in an organization‚you can perform better if you understand what operations managers do. OM provides a major opportunity for an organization to improve its profitability and enhance its service to society. OM is such a costly part of an organization.A large percentage
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1. Executive Summary A ll organizations possess operations functions of some sort because every one of them provides product and or services to its customer. According to Slack‚ Chambers & Johnston (2010)‚ the operations function actually ranks as one of the three core functions in any company. As a central function in any organization‚ it produces the output required that the company needs to stay in business. What makes operations management so important is the critical role it plays in making
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products and even offering a no questions money back guarantee‚ ALDI’s leads the way to a competitive advantage. Not only does the quality of the products allow ALDI’s to pursue a differentiation strategy‚ but modern quality methods like total quality management (TQM) and just-in-time (JIT) also promote low-cost and response strategies. By only keeping max 2 brands per product and only 700 products in ALDI’s stores the makes sure that stock moves fast and the possibility for old stock is very slim. ALDI
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