Copyright © Texas Education Agency, All rights reserved. 1 Production Processes Statistics & Risk Management

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Copyright © Texas Education Agency, All rights reserved. Ideas Concepts Concepts – Original Ideas – Copies of Products – New and Improved Design Design – Drawings – Models – Prototypes 3

Copyright © Texas Education Agency, All rights reserved. Planning Product Engineering Product Engineering – What to produce Process Engineering Process Engineering – How to produce it – Manage bottlenecks 4

Copyright © Texas Education Agency, All rights reserved. Planning Inputs Inputs Outputs Outputs Within Factory Within Factory Next Factory Next Factory End Buyer End Buyer 5

Copyright © Texas Education Agency, All rights reserved. Scheduling Forward Scheduling is planning the tasks from the date resources become available to determine the shipping date or the due date Forward Scheduling is planning the tasks from the date resources become available to determine the shipping date or the due date Backward Scheduling is planning the tasks from the due date or required-by date to determine the start date and/or any changes in capacity required Backward Scheduling is planning the tasks from the due date or required-by date to determine the start date and/or any changes in capacity required 6

Copyright © Texas Education Agency, All rights reserved. Scheduling Companies use forward & backward scheduling to: Companies use forward & backward scheduling to: – allocate plant and machinery resources, – plan human resources, – plan production processes – purchase materials 7

Copyright © Texas Education Agency, All rights reserved. Benefits of Scheduling Process change-over reduction Process change-over reduction Inventory reduction, leveling Inventory reduction, leveling Reduced scheduling effort Reduced scheduling effort Increased production efficiency Increased production efficiency Labor load leveling Labor load leveling Accurate delivery date quotes Accurate delivery date quotes Real time information Real time information 8

Copyright © Texas Education Agency, All rights reserved.Implementation Set Up Set Up – Materials – Equipment – Routing Production Runs Production Runs – Monitoring – Adjustments 9