15.769 Manufacturing Strategy Spring 2001 Second revision of syllabus Prof. Don Rosenfield: E40-419‚ 253-1064‚ e-mail: donrose@mit.edu Teaching Assistant: Melissa Falkowski‚ Office TBD‚ mfalkow@mit.edu Manufacturing strategy examines strategy for manufacturing and operations within the firm. The course will examine how manufacturing and operations can be used as competitive weapons. Traditionally‚ these areas have been viewed as narrow‚ functional areas‚ and management of them
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BW MANUFACTURING COMPANY CASE SUMMARY The owners of BW Manufacturing‚ a small manufacturer of gas grills‚ have prepared a preliminary budget for the upcoming year and would like to assess the financial impact of several alternative scenarios‚ including dropping a product; changing the price on a product‚ with a resulting increase in volume; and shifting advertising focus‚ with a resulting shift in volume from one product to another. A new budget must be prepared. At year-end‚ the actual results
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made possible. Manufacturing requirements are determined based on sales forecast‚ customer orders or inventory targets. Production schedule is generated with information provided by different modules such as customer order‚ inventory‚ manufacturing order and purchase order. With this schedule‚ management can effectively plan the production‚ monitor the inventory movement and set the production target. Furthermore‚ the system provides tools to analyze productivity and its production cost given the
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Report on Production Control Sewing‚ Finishing and Packaging TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 1.1 Production Control 1.2 Objectives of Production Planning Control 1.3 Production Planning and Control Functions 2. Basic Garment Process 3. Sewing 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Process Flow 3.3 Production Control in Sewing 4. Finishing and Packaging 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Process Flow 4.3 Production Control in Finishing
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Types of Production Primary Production This includes all kinds of extractive industries such as agriculture‚ mining and fishing. Secondary Production This includes manufacturing such as assembling‚ refining and construction (building) industries. Tertiary Production This includes all kinds of service industries such as transportation‚ communication and tourism. (1) Features of a Business Plan A business plan is a document outlining the goals of a business and the strategies to achieve
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Beck Manufacturing Bernadette Giene Cain BU644: Operations Management Professor Vanessa Washington June 23‚ 2015 The expansion of a company’s production equipment can be very costly‚ and the decision to expand is made off the assessment of the product demand behavior. The expansion must be profitable enough to minimize future decreased demand‚ and help alleviate production issues in order to increase production growth. Expansion can also be utilized in order to compete within a market‚
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ANSWERS Answer 1: * Vendor-managed inventory (VMI) is a family of business models in which the buyer of a product (business) provides certain information to a vendor (supply chain)supplier of that product and the supplier takes full responsibility for maintaining an agreed inventory of the material‚ usually at the buyer’s consumption location (usually a store). A third-party logistics provider can also be involved to make sure that the buyer has the required level of inventory by adjusting
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Shifting Gear: Chrysler Gains Edge by Giving New Flexibility to Its Factories (WSJ‚ 04/11/2006) presented the benefits and case for flexible manufacturing. Comment on the advantages and disadvantage of flexible manufacturing? Comment on the scope economies presented in the news article? What does the existence of such economies imply about the production of autos in growing fragmented market? “ In the news article‚ “Chrysler Gains Edge by Giving New Flexibility to Its Factories”‚ more emphasis
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Section 5 Operations Production Production Techniques From Jollibee’s deep wellspring of resources‚ Jollibee Worldwide Services (JWS) was formed to be the JFC Group of Companies’ partner in delivering shared services for all its business lines. Borne out of JFC’s foundational values and in full support of its mission and vision‚ JWS is positioned to be the leader in the shared services industry‚ a “partner of choice” for the most aggressive business movers in the world today. Our mission
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Agile Manufacturing In 1991‚ an industry-led study‚ sponsored by the United States Navy Mantech Program‚ and supported by the Iacocca Institute at Lehigh University in the United States‚ was conducted in order to originate a new paradigm for successful manufacturing enterprises. The report of that study‚ entitled “21st Century Manufacturing Enterprise Strategy”‚ coined the term “agile manufacturing” History of Agile Manufacturing The report which is entitled “21st Century Manufacturing Enterprise
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