Transcript Technology in Operations

By Terri Cochrane
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Increased capacity of production
Higher quality products
Lower operating costs
Shorter cycle times
Mass customization of products
Improved organizational effectiveness
Greater agility and efficiency
Development of seamless processes
• Transmission of business transactions from one company's
computer to another company's computer. Transmission is
achieved through an electronic communication network that uses
translation software to convert transactions from a company's
internal format to a standard EDI format.
• Examples:
online banking
online retailing
electronic funds transfer (payroll checks)
FMS (Flexible Manufacturing
Systems)
• is a manufacturing system
in which there is some
amount of flexibility that
allows the system to react
in the case of changes,
whether predicted or
unpredicted.
• Incorporates machine
flexibility- the ability to
produce different product
types and change the
order on parts
• Incorporates routing
flexibility – the ability to
use multiple machines to
perform the same function
on a part and to make
large scale changes in
volume and capacity
CAM (Computer-Aided
Manufacturing)
Commonly refers to the use of
numerical control (NC) computer
software applications to create
detailed instructions (G-code) that
drive computer numerical control
(CNC) machine tools for
manufacturing parts.
• can maximize utilization of a full
range of production equipment
• can aid in creating, verifying, and
optimizing NC programs for
optimum machining productivity
• product lifecycle management
MRP (Materials Requirements
Planning)
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A materials requirement planning
(MRP) information system is a sales
forecast-based system used to
schedule raw material deliveries
and quantities, given assumptions
of machine and labor units
required to fulfill a sales forecast.
• includes inventory control, bill of
material processing and
elementary scheduling
• helps organizations to maintain low
inventory levels
• used to plan manufacturing,
purchasing and delivering activities
Attempts to integrate all departments and functions across a
company onto a single computer system that can serve all those
different departments’ particular needs.
• ERP takes a customer order and provides a software road map
for automating the different steps along the path to fulfilling it.
• People in different departments all see the same information
and can update it. When one department finishes with the
order it is automatically routed via the ERP system to the next
department.
• To find out where the order is at any point, you need only log in
to the ERP system and track it
Because of the value and investment associated with inventory,
companies seek to track the movement of their inventory as closely as
possible.
• The bar code or Universal Product Code (UPC) serves as the most
common inventory tracking method. Designed for use in the retail
environment, the standard bar code allows retailers to track inventory
through point-of-sale (POS) equipment.
• Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology can scan more than
one unit at a time, it does not require line-of-site between tags and
readers and most fixed RFID readers do not require human
intervention to work.
• Tag System- At the point-of-sale, the retailer removes the tag. The
collected tags get crosschecked against the physical inventory to
determine sales quantities.
CAD (Computer Aided Design)
Architects, drafters, engineers, and
artists use CAD software to create
plans and construction drawings.
• Switch between twodimensional (2D) and threedimensional (3D) views.
• Zoom in and out for close-up
and distant views.
• Rotate images to view them
from different perspectives.
• Change the scale of images:
• Manipulate the shape of
images
Technical Data Management
Systems (TDMS)
Management of technical
and engineering drawings and
technical archives.
• record management involving
purely technical or technocommercial or techno-legal
information or data
• Steel Plants (ISP), Automobile
factories, Aero-space facilities,
Infrastructure companies, City
Corporations, Research
Organizations