Operations Management AGILE MANUFACTURING Submitted By: Flores‚ Patricia Joy A. Mojica‚ Krisha May S. Submitted to: Dr. Mario S. Mecate January 2015 DEFINITION Agile is defined as to be able to move quickly. Manufacturing is the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery‚ especially on a large scale‚ from raw materials or unfinished materials. It is the making of a finished product or good ’. Combine the two words together agile and manufacturing it is defined as is an approach
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The operating system that I have chosen is a particular service operation: the realisation of a music concert. As every other organisation that produce goods or services‚ it has a precise operating system‚ composed by a range of inputs‚ a transformation process and a final output. INPUTS - We must distinguish between two different kind of resources: transformed resources‚ that are the resources treated and transformed in some way‚ and transforming resources‚ that are the resources that act upon
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Toyota is a great company that has been very successful over the past couple of decades. Toyota was founded in 1926 by Sakichi Toyoda‚ and in 2006‚ 8.5 million vehicles had been produced. Toyota has surpassed Ford and is on its way on surpassing General Motors. Toyota still has its challenges and that is what the SWOT and Porter’s Five Force Analysis will show (Hill‚ Jones p. c61-c72). Starting off with the SWOT Analysis for Toyota is strengths are that in 2005 Toyota’s factories in the US and
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Toyota Revs up U.S. Sales Threats: The Japanese market is getting more competitive and Toyota is losing sales to Nissan and Honda. Chevrolet and Ford are selling better in the U.S. The "Toyota takeover" is not assured. Japanese manufactures gaining a foothold in the US market. American companies are working to update the styling of their cars. Opportunities: Exploiting the U.S. Attaining more local managers in order to Americanize. Import taxes and current risk
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The Toyota Production System A Case Study of Creativity and Innovation in Automotive Engineering R.Balakrishnan INTRODUCTION Automobile Manufacturing Forty years ago‚ Peter Drucker dubbed it "the industries of industries." Today‚ automobile manufacturing is still the world’s largest manufacturing activity. After First World War‚ Henry Ford and General Motors’ Alfred Sloan moved world manufacture from centuries of craft production(led by European firms(into the age of mass production. Largely
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vs. Toyota Ford Motor Company is the second-largest automobile company in the world. Ford’s main focus is automobiles; however‚ they also operate in Ford Credit and Hertz Corporation. Ford also has controlling interest in Mazda Motor Corporation. Ford was established June‚ 1903; in an old wagon factory in Detroit Michigan. In 1903‚ Ford began production on a two-cylinder‚ 8 horsepower called the Model A. They produced a total of 1‚708 of these cars in their first year of operation. Toyota Motor
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Toyota Motor Corporation Company Overview Toyota Motor Corporation is a leading auto manufacturer in the world. Toyota sells its vehicles in more than 170 countries and regions worldwide. Toyota’s primary markets for its automobiles are Japan‚ North America‚ Europe and Asia. It is headquartered in Toyota City‚ Japan and employs about 299‚394 people. Revenues The company recorded revenues of JPY23‚948.1 billion (approximately $203.1 billion) during the fiscal year ended March 2007‚ an increase
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TOYOTA PHILOSOPHY At the beginning‚ the author explains 3 chain managements of Toyota. First one is the supply chain management system. The lean manufacturing concepts are created by Toyota such as Kanban‚ Just-in-Time and Kaizen. Toyota’s production system has become so worldwide affective; lots of manufacturers are using Toyota’s lean system. Second component is‚ demand chain management which is coordination of information‚ material and financial flows in the distribution of vehicles. And the
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case of Toyota Mengtao Ji Yuting Xi Feng Huang Yudi Jiang Background Toyota Motor Corporation is a famous global automaker headquartered in Japan‚ which commonly known as Toyota (Liker‚ 2004). As a leader in the global car market‚ Toyota Motor is famous of manufacturing quality cars with low price. Toyota’s world-leading quality and the management system are remarkable. In 2003‚ the annual profit of Toyota was larger
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lebih dikenal dengan JIT Manufacturing didefinisikan oleh APICS sebagai suatu filosofi sistem manufaktur berdasarkan pada rencana pengurangan/penghapusan segala bentuk pemborosan dan perbaikan produktivitas secara berkesinambungan. Perusahaan manufaktur kendaraan bermotor di Jepang‚ Toyota‚ mempelopori pengaplikasian JIT system dalam sistem manufakturnya. Sistem produksi tersebut lebih dikenal dengan sebutan Toyota Production System (TPS). (Fogarty‚et al.‚ 1991) Toyota mengidentifikasi tujuh sumber
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