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| The time needed to respond to a customer order. |
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| Customer order decoupling point |
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| The place where inventory is positioned to allow processes or entities in the supply chain to operate independently. |
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| A production environment where the customer is served on-demand from finished goods inventory. |
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| A production environment where preassembled components, subassemblies, and modules are put together in response to a specific customer order. |
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| A production environment where the product is built directly from raw materials and components inresponse to a specific customer order. |
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| Here the firm works with the customer to design the product, which is then made from purchased materials, parts, and components. |
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| The attempt to achieve high customer service with minimum levels of inventory investment. |
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| The product, because of its sheer bulk or weight, remains fixed in a location. Equipment is moved to the product rather than vice versa. |
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| A process structure suited for low-volume production of a great variety of nonstandard products. Workcenters sometimes are referred to as departments and are focused on a particular type of operation |
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| An area where simple items that are similar in processing requirements are produced. |
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| A process structure designed to make discrete parts. Parts are moved through a set of specially designed workstations at a controlled rate. |
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| An often automated process that converts raw materials into a finished product in one continuous process. |
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| Shows the relationships between different production units and how they are used depending on product volume and the degree of product standardization. |
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| refers to the strategic decision of selecting which kind of production processes to use to produce a product or provide a service |
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| When developing this, visualize the product as the hub of a wheel, with materials and equipment arranged concentrically around the production point in order of use and movement difficulty. A high degree of task ordering is common |
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| sometimes referred to as a department and is focused on a particular type of operation |
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| is formed by allocating dissimilar machines to cells that are designed to work on products that have similar shapes and processing requirements |
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| Assembly Line and Continuous process layouts |
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| a layout design for the special purpose of building a product by going through a progressive set of steps. Done in areas referred to as stations and typically these are linked by some form of material handling device. |
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| simply an exploded view of the product showing its component parts |
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| uses the information presented in the assembly drawing and defines (among other things) how parts go together, their order of assembly, and often the overall material flow pattern |
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| operation and route sheet |
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| specifies operations and process routing for a particular part. It conveys such information as the type of equipment, tooling, and operations required to complete the part |
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| a standard approach to choosing among alternative processes or equipment |
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| less specialized equipment that can be used easily in many different ways if it is set up in the proper way |
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| more specialized equipment that is often available as an alternative to a general-purpose machine |
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