2/21/2014 EM 502 OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT INTRODUCTION Middle East Technical University 1 Department of Industrial Engineering 06531 Ankara / Turkey General Information • Textbook: Operations Management by Heizer and Render‚ Prentice Hall‚ 10th Edition‚ 2010. • Grading – Midterm Exams (2) 60% – Final (Comprehensive) 20% – Case Studies (2 or 3 – team work) 20% Middle East Technical University 2 Department of Industrial Engineering 06531 Ankara / Turkey 1 2/21/2014 Outline • • • • • • • •
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Objectives: 1. List and briefly explain the elements in the control process 2. Explain how control charts are used to monitor a process‚ and the concepts that underlie their use 3. Use and interpret control charts 4. Perform run tests to check for nonrandomness in process output 5. Assess process capability * What is Quality Control? 6. A process that evaluates output relative to a standard and takes corrective action when output doesn’t meet standards
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STUDY OUTLINE FOR CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION TO Operations Management 1. Operations management is… 1) Operations management is the management of systems or processes that create goods and/or provide services. 2. What are the three basic functions in business organizations? 2) 1) Finance 3) 2) Operations 4) 3) Marketing 3. A supply chain consists of 4. What is meant by the term value-added? The value-added is the difference between the cost of inputs and the value or
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Introduction to Operations Management Contents: 1- What Is Operations Management (OM)? 2- OM Decisions. 3- Contributions of OM to the society. 4- The emergence of OM. 5- The Ever-Changing World of Operations Management. 6- Historical Development of OM. 7- The Main Challenges Face OM (+ in Sudan) – “ASSIGNMENT” 1-What is Operations Management? 1- Operations Management (OM) is the management of the direct recourses that are required to produce and deliver an organization’s goods
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APPLICATION OF SIX SIGMA METHODOLOGY FOR INSPECTION PROCESS TIME REDUCTION IN AEROSPACE INDUSTRY Author Muhammad Younas Ghafoor 08-MS-EM-08 Supervisor Dr. Shahab Khushnood Professor DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY TAXILA December 2012 APPLICATION OF SIX SIGMA METHODOLOGY FOR INSPECTION PROCESS TIME REDUCTION IN AEROSPACE INDUSTRY Author Muhammad Younas Ghafoor 08-MS-EM-08 A thesis submitted in
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Six Sigma at 3M 1. What are the potential benefits and risks of implementing Six Sigma at 3M? Benefits: Six sigma not only provides a platform to improve existing processes but also enables 3M to design new processes in an efficient manner so that it results in lowered costs‚ increased sales‚ improved customer satisfaction‚ improved managerial development‚ increased cash flow and increased pace of development of 3M. 3M Acceleration was implemented by 3M to improve efficiency and pace of product development
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address these issues by decreasing the turnaround time between surgical cases and increasing the percentage of first cases of the day beginning at their scheduled time. These two performance metrics were targeted for improvement through the use of lean work system principles implemented by a cross-functional process improvement team of OR employees aided by external consultants. This systematic improvement project resulted in significant improvement in on-time first case starts and slight overall
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1 | Module: Module 6 / Topic: Distributions | An event has historically averaged 1.4 occurrences per time period‚what is the probability of exactly 4 occurrence(s) in a randomly selected time period of the same length? | you answered wrong and the Correct answer is 0.03947 Explanation: In this case‚ probability of getting exactly 4 occurrences is obtained using the following function: =POISSON(4‚1.4‚0) | | | | | 2 | Module: Module 6 / Topic: Distributions | | Given a normally distributed
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Using Six Sigma to Modernize Our Company Michael Maeder American Military University MGT 500 Table of Contents Introduction 3 Current Methods 4 The Plan 5 Proposed Process for Change 7 Summary 9 Introduction Times are changing in the world of automotive manufacturing. As global markets emerge‚ new methods
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INTRODUCTION Nowadays‚ companies have to continuously develop their strategies to be at par with other competitors. For this they always strive to adopt new methods or they try to develop on their present methodologies. Companies always look to upgrade their intrinsic technologies to produce the best results for them. Out of the many strategies adopted for this improvement process Lean Six Sigma is one of the most widely used strategy. Lean Six Sigma has been adopted in various industries in our
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