level: Process/production planning
Questions and Answers List
level questions: Process/production planning
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Manufacturing support systems | The procedures and systems used by a firm to manage its production operations and solve the technical and logistics problems associated with: - Designing the products - Planning the processes - Ordering materials - Controlling WIP (inventory) as it moves through the plant - Delivering quality products to customers |
| Types of process planning | traditional computer aided process planning - retrieval (older) - generative (newer) - dynamic (developing) |
| Process planning | (carried by manufacturing engineers) - Electing appropriate processes and their sequence - Determining tooling requirements - Electing equipment - Estimating costs |
| Production planning | - Logistics of manufacture - Ordering materials - Obtaining resources |
| When determining the most appropriate manufacturing processes to fit the designs of the product, you need to consider: | - Available processing equipment - Technical capabilities in the factory - Parts or subassemblies that cannot be made internally and must be outsourced (i.e. need to work around standards) |