Supply Chain Ch. 4

• Know:
  
• How production processes are organized
  
• The trade-offs that need to be considered when designing a production process
  
• What the product-process matrix is
  
• Understand how break-even analysis is just as important in operations and supply-chain analysis as it is in other areas
  
• Understand how to design an assembly line
  
• Key Terms
  
• Project layout
  
  • The product, because of its sheer bulk or weight, remains fixed in a location. Equipment is moved to the product rather than vice versa
    
• Workcenter
  
  • A process structure suited for low-volume production of a great variety of nonstandard products. Workcenters sometimes are referred to as departments and are focused on a particular type of operation
    
• Manufacturing cell
  
  • An areas where simple items that are similar in processing requirements are produced
    
• Assembly line
  
  • A process structure designed to make discrete parts. Parts are moved through a set of specially designed workstations at a controlled rate
    
• Continuous process
  
  • An often automated process that converts raw materials into a finished product in one continuous process
    
• Product-process matrix
  
  • Shows the relationships between different production units and how they are sued depending on product volume and the degree of product standardization
    
• Workstation cycle time
  
  • The time between successive units coming off the end of an assembly line
    
• Assembly-line balancing
  
  • The problem of assigning all the tasks to a series of workstations so that each workstation has no more that can be done in the workstations cycle time and so that idle time across all workstations is minimized
    
• Precedence relationship
  
  • The order in which task must be performed in the assembly process