Operations Management Fundamentals

Decisions regarding the design of a production system, impacting the type of product, equipment, processes, and layout.

Choosing and designing products considering their manufacturability.

Choosing the most cost-effective equipment and processes.

Designing how parts are produced economically, considering equipment, processes, and tools.

Organizing work and matching workers with jobs to improve productivity and reduce fatigue.

Choosing a location for the production system, weighing the trade-offs among various factors.

Designing the layout of the facility, regarding capacity, production methods, and minimizing material handling costs.

Short-term decisions concerned with allocating resources to match demand and inventory levels.

Facility planning, also known as layout planning, plant layout, facilities design or facilities planning, is a process for structuring a facility to support an organization's goals.

A structured process to minimize the risk of new product failures that includes stages like idea generation, screening, concept development, marketing strategy development, business analysis, product development, market testing, and commercialization.

The initial stage of new product development where various sources are explored to identify potential product ideas. Sources include customers, R&D, employees, competition, and marketing channels.

The stage where generated ideas are evaluated to determine which ones are promising, marginal, or rejects.Promising ideas go to further development.

Refining attractive ideas in new product development into product concepts and testing them to see how well consumers respond to them

Creating a preliminary marketing plan for launching the new product that has already passed through concept testing.

Evaluating the financial attractiveness of a new product proposal before full product development.

A detailed description of a product idea that includes aspects of the product expressed in a customer-friendly manner

Plant layout objectives are influenced by factors like material, machinery, people, movement, waiting time, service, building features, and flexibility.

Design, variety, quantity, and production sequence of materials (raw, WIP, finished goods) impact the arrangement of the factory.

The equipment, tools, and their usage influence the factory layout.

The human resources in production (supervision, workers) are a key element in the plant layout decisions.

Movement of people and materials within the factory, including transport, handling, and inspection, impact the layout.

The time taken to store materials (finished goods, semi-finished goods, raw materials) is a significant factor influencing plant layout.

Maintenance, inspection, waste management, scheduling, and dispatching all affect the plant layout.

Layouts in industries with changing product models should allow for easy adjustments to accommodate modifications in the production process.