ME20026: Manufacturing Operations and
Technology Notes:
INTRODUCTION:
Definition of Manufacturing:
Traditional Value orientated
Definition Process of converting raw materials Value adding activity
into products using resources
subject to regulations and policies
Flowchart
Manufacturing Industries:
Primary Secondary Tertiary
Definition Exploit natural Convert outputs of Provide services
resources primary industries into
products
Manufacturing Processes and Operations:
Range of activities that must be carried out to convert raw material to the final product:
• Processing and assembly
• Material handling
• Inspection
• Operations management
o Strategy
▪ Understand the aims of the manufacturing company
• Allows performance of the operation to be planned and monitored
at different levels of the enterprise
▪ Develop operations strategy
• Guides minute-by-minute decision making towards company’s long
term goals
o Design
▪ Determines functionality, physical form, shape, composition and software
components of the produced services and products
▪ Processes to do these
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, o Planning and control
▪ Decided what manufacturing resources should be doing at any given time
o Improvement
▪ Continuous improvement to ensure company remains competitive in the
long run
Production Facilities:
Production quantity:
• Low volume production
o 1 to 100 units
• Medium volume production
o 100 to 10,000 units
• High volume production
o More than 10,000 units
Product Variety:
• Number of different product designs and types that are produced in a factory
• Inverse correlation between variety and quantity in factories
• Types of production facilities
o Low volume production
▪ Job shop
o Medium volume production
▪ Batch production
▪ Cellular manufacturing
o High volume production
▪ Mass production
Product and Part Complexity:
For an assembled product let
• P = product variety
• Q = production quantity
• 𝑛𝑝 = number of parts per product
• 𝑛𝑜 = number of operations required to make the parts
𝑷
𝒏𝒑𝒇 = ∑ 𝑸𝒋 𝒏𝒑𝒋
𝒋=𝟏
If all parts are produced in a factory, the total number of operations is given by:
𝑷 𝑸
𝒏𝒐𝒇 = ∑ 𝑸𝒋 𝒏𝒑𝒋 ∑ 𝒏𝒐𝒋𝒌
𝒋=𝟏 𝒌=𝟏
• 𝑛𝑜𝑓 = total number of operations performed by the factory in a year
o Important since it provides a numerical value for the level of activity in the factory
• 𝑛𝑜𝑗𝑘 = number of processing operations for each part k
• 𝑛𝑝𝑗 = number of parts in product j
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,If we assume that
• Product designs P are produced in equal numbers Q
• All products have same number of components 𝑛𝑝
• All components require an equal number of operations 𝑛𝑜
𝒏𝒐𝒇 = 𝑷𝑸𝒏𝒑 𝒏𝒐
Limitations and Capabilities of a Manufacturing Plant:
• Refers to the technical and physical limitations of a manufacturing firm and each of its plants
• Main factors in determining capability
o Technological processing capability
▪ Technologies that are available to the factory
▪ Nb sometimes lack of expertise rather that physical availability limits a
manufacturing company
o Physical product limitations
▪ Size and weight limitations for most machines and material handing devices
that limit a manufacturing plant
o Production capacity
▪ This limit is a result of capacity planning for the factory
MANUFACTURING PROCESS SELECTION:
Classification of Manufacturing Processes:
Transformative process
• Mass of part remains the same throughout process
Subtractive process
• Mass reduces during process
Additive Process
• Mass increases during process
• Direct Cost
o Spent directly on making product
o Scales linearly with quantity produced
• Indirect cost
o All costs that cannot be directly attributed to a specific product
o Manufacturing
▪ Rent ▪ Transport
▪ Rates ▪ Safety
▪ Heat ▪ Computer network
▪ Light ▪ Stores
▪ Power ▪ Production control
▪ Management staff ▪ Quality control
▪ Maintenance ▪ Production
▪ Depreciation engineering
▪ Cleaning
o Business
▪ Research
▪ Design
▪ Development
▪ Sales
▪ Marketing
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