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Decribes OM as the development, execution, and maintenance of effective processes related to activities done over and over, or to one-time major projects, to achieve specific goals of the organization.
Anderson, Anderson &Parker ,2013)
Johnston 1994: 21
Defined OM as is a body of knowledge, experience and techniques covering such topics as process design, layout, production planning, inventory control, quality management and control, capacity planning and workforce management’
Johnston
Stevenson
Hospitality MPOs job shops include
table-service restaurant
a la carte restaurant
Identified that a hotel as a largely a CPO
Jones 1994
Brown et.al
1. refers to a single, fixed position at which the product is assembled or service is processed by workers who move to that position to carry out their work.
Process Layout
Fixed Position
Has machinery dedicated to a particular product, usually laid out in a sequence, with distinct stages in manufacture. Workers are usually required to perform relatively simple tasks at one particular stage in the process.
Fixed Position
Product Lay-out
has machines or activities grouped together non-sequentially to allow a range of different products to be made. Products move to a particular location for processing according to need.
Process Lay out
Production Lay out
Theory that proposed that there should be a trade-off between the volume of production or the variety as illustrated
Theory of Lean Manufacturing
Theory of Process of Choice
This Theory holds that the swifter and even the flow of materials through the process, the more productive
Theory of Swift and Even flow
Theory of Performance Frontiers
Materials processing operation MPO
mostly considered as services
more commonly referred to as manufacturing
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