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The major decisions involved in design planning deal with:
a. type of business ownership, financial planning, and human resources.
b. human resources, community development, and use of technology.
c. required capacity, financial planning, and physical location.
d. product line, required capacity, and use of technology.
e. financial planning, product line, and supply-chain management.

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Three important aspects of operations management

1) Developing ideas for new products
2) Planning for production
3) Effectively controlling operations after production has begun

Operations management

Consists of all the activities required to produce goods and services.

Three major factors explain why employment in this economic sector has declined.

1) Many of the U.S. manufacturing jobs that were lost were outsourced to low- wage workers in nations where there are few labor, safety, and environmental regulations.

1) It costs about 20 percent more to manufacture goods in the United States than it does anywhere else in the world.

3) The number of unemployed factory workers increased during the economic crisis that began in 2008 because of decreased consumer demand for manufactured goods. Although the number of jobs in manufacturing has increased during the economic recovery, manufacturing employment is close to all-time lows.

1) Innovation—finding a better way to produce products—is the key factor that has enabled American manufacturers to compete in the global marketplace.
2) Today's workers in the manufacturing sector are highly skilled in order to operate sophisticated equipment.

Although the number of manufacturing jobs has declined, productivity has increased. At least two very important factors account for increases in productivity:

Reshoring

Sometimes referred to as onshoring or insourcing, describes a situation where U.S. manufacturers bring manufacturing jobs back to the United States.

Primary reasons why U.S. firms are "coming back home"

1) Increasing labor costs in foreign nations
2) Higher shipping costs
3) Significant quality and safety issues
4) Faster product development when goods are produced in the United States
5) Federal and state subsidies to encourage manufactures to produce products in the United States

The bottom line: The global marketplace has never been more competitive and successful U.S. firms will focus on the following

1) Meeting the needs of customers and improving product quality
2) Motivating employees to cooperate with management and improve productivity
3) Reducing costs by selecting suppliers that offer higher quality raw materials and components at reasonable prices
4) Using computer-aided and flexible manufacturing systems that allow a higher degree of customization
5) Improving control procedures to help ensure lower manufacturing costs
6) Using green manufacturing to conserve natural resources and sustain the planet

Mass production

A manufacturing process that lowers the cost required to produce a large number of identical or similar products over a long period of time.

Analytics process

Breaks raw materials into different component parts.

For example, a barrel of crude oil refined by Marathon Oil Corporation—a Texas-based oil and energy exploration company—can be broken down into gasoline, oil, lubricants, and many other petroleum by-products

Synthetic process

The opposite of the analytical one; it combines raw materials or components to create a finished product.

Example, Black & Decker uses this process when it combines plastic, steel, rechargeable batteries, and other components to produce a cordless drill.

Today's successful operations managers must:

1) Be able to motivate and lead people
2) Understand how technology can make a manufacturer more productive
3) Appreciate the cost-control processes that help lower production costs and improve product quality
4) Understand the relationship between the customer, the marketing of a product, and the production of a product.

Utility

The ability of a good or service to satisfy a human need.

Four types of utilities

1) Form
2) Place
3) Time
4) Possession—operations management focuses primarily on form utility

Form utility

Is created by people converting raw materials, finances, and information into finished products.

Three ways to describe conversion

1) The resource or resources that make up the major or most important input
2) the degree to which the resources are physically changed
3) Number of production processes employed.

Service economy

One in which more effort is devoted to the production of services than to the production of goods.

The production of services is very different from the production of manufactured goods in the following five ways:

1) When compared to manufactured goods, customers are much more involved in obtaining the service they want or need
2) Services are consumed immediately and, unlike manufactured goods, cannot be stored. For example, a hair stylist cannot store completed haircuts
3) Services are provided when and where the customer desires the service. In many cases, customers will not travel as far to obtain a service. 4) Services are usually labor-intensive because the human resource is often the most important resource used in the production of services
5) Services are intangible, and it is therefore more difficult to evaluate customer satisfaction

Research and development (R&D)

Involves a set of activities intended to identify new ideas that have the potential to result in new goods and services.

Three type of general R&D

1) Basic research - consists of activities aimed at uncovering new knowledge. The goal of basic research is scientific advancement, without regard for its potential use in the development of goods and services.
2) Applied research - In contrast, consists of activities geared toward discovering new knowledge with some potential use.
3) Development and implementation - Involves research activities undertaken specifically to put new or existing knowledge to use in producing goods and services.

1) Design planning
2) Facilities planning
3) Operational planning

Once a new idea for a product or service has been identified, planning for production involves three different phases:

Design planning

The development of a plan for converting an idea into an actual product or service.

Product line

A group of similar products that differ only in relatively minor characteristics.

Product design

The process of creating a set of specifications from which a product can be produced.

Capacity

The amount of products or services that an organization can produce in a given period of time.

Labor-intensive technology

A process in which people must do most of the work.

Capital-intensive technology

A process in which machines and equipment do most of the work.

In determining where to locate production facilities, management must consider a number of variables, including the following:

1) Locations of major customers and suppliers.
2) Availability and cost of skilled and unskilled labor.
3) Quality of life for employees and management in the proposed location
4) The cost of land and building costs
5) Local and state taxes, environmental regulations, and zoning laws
6) The amount of financial support and subsidies, if any, offered by local and state governments
7) Special requirements, such as great amounts of energy or water used in the production process

Plant layout

The arrangement of machinery, equipment, and personnel within a production facility.

Three general types of plant layout

1) Process layout - Used when different operations are required for creating small batches of different products or working on different parts of a product. The plant is arranged so that each operation is performed in its own particular area.
2) Product layout - Sometimes referred to as an assembly line, is used when all products undergo the same operations in the same sequence. Workstations are arranged to match the sequence of operations, and work flows from station to station.
3) Fixed-position layout - Used when a very large product is produced. Boeing, for instance, uses this layout plant arrangement because of the size of its products—commercial airliners.

Planning horizon

Simply the time period during which an operational plan will be in effect. A common amount of time for production plans is one year.

Operational planning steps (4)

1) Planning horizon
2) Estimating market demand
3) Comparing market demand with capacity
4) Adjusting products and services to meet demand

Market demand

The quantity of product that customers will purchase at the going price. This quantity must be estimated for the time period covered by the planning horizon.

1) purchasing
2) inventory control
3) scheduling
4) quality control

Four important areas of operations control:

The choice of suppliers should result from careful analysis of a number of factors. The following are especially critical:

1) Price
2) Quality
3) Reliability
4) Credit terms
5) Shipping costs

Operations managers are concerned with three types of inventories:

1) raw materials inventory - consists of materials that will become part of the product during the production process
2) work-in-process inventory consists of partially completed products
3) finished-goods inventory consists of completed goods

Inventory control

The process of managing inventories in such a way as to minimize inventory costs, including both holding costs and potential stock-out costs.

Materials requirements planning (MRP)

A computerized system that integrates production planning and inventory control. One of the great advantages of this system is its ability to juggle delivery schedules and lead times effectively.

Just-in-time-inventory system (JIT)

Designed to ensure that materials or supplies arrive at a facility just when they are needed so that storage and holding costs are minimized.

Scheduling

The process of ensuring that materials and other resources are at the right place at the right time.

Quality control

The process of ensuring that goods and services are produced in accordance with design specifications.

Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award

Given by the President of the United States to organizations judged to be outstanding in specific managerial tasks that lead to improved quality for both products and services.

Quality circle

A team of employees who meet on company time to solve problems of product quality.

Inspection

The examination of the quality of work-in-process.

Sigma six

A disciplined approach that relies on statistical data and improved methods to eliminate defects for a firm's products and services. Although many experts agree that this is similar to TQM, it often has more top-level support, much more teamwork, and a new corporate attitude or culture.

International Organization for Standardization (ISO)

A network of national standards institutes and similar organizations from over 160 different countries that is charged with developing standards for quality products and services that are traded throughout the globe.

Nongovernmental organization with headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, was created.

Lean manufacturing

A concept built on the idea of eliminating waste from all of the activities required to produce a good or service.

Automation

The total or near-total use of machines to do work.

Robotics

The use of programmable machines to perform a variety of tasks by manipulating materials and tools.

Computer aided design (CAD)

The use of computers to aid in the development of products.

Computer aided manufacturer (CAM)

The use of computers to plan and control manufacturing processes.

Computer integrated manufacturing (CIM)

A computer system that not only helps to design products but also controls the machinery needed to produce the finished product.

Continuous process

A manufacturing process in which a firm produces the same product(s) over a long period of time.

Flexible manufacturing system (FMS)

Combines electronic machines and CIM in a single production system. Instead of having to spend large amounts of time and effort to retool the traditional mechanical equipment on an assembly line for each new product, and this is rearranged simply by reprogramming electronic machines.

Intermittent process

A manufacturing process in which a firm's manufacturing machines and equipment are changed to produce different products.

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