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Production and Operation Analysis

By Steven Nahmias

Production and operations management is the process of managing people and

resources in order to create a product or a service. Operations involve the logistics

required to support the production function. This book has 12 chapters the first chapter

discusses that we are evolving into a service economy and disastrous consequences in

economic health. Introduction of the quality movement success of the Japanese in the

business industry is also tackled. In this chapter you will know all about Supply Chain

Management, behind Wal-Mart’s success in the snap shot application, time based

competition, strategies and hi-tech industries are being presented in this area. Chapter two

of this book includes the discussion of forecasting issues and most popular methods for

predicting stationary series including moving averages and simple exponential

smoothing. This chapter explains the difference of one step ahead and multiple step

forecasts is made clear. Chapter three talks about comprehensive treatment of aggregate

planning and considers several issues were opened in this area. Questions that made

students confused like what is the difference between normal units and aggregate units

was explained by few authors in this section. Supplement on linear Programming is being

tackled in this chapter. Chapter four shows the description of types of inventories,

motivation for holding inventories and types of inventory control system. EOQ model

was being discussed in this chapter. EOQ models for production planning, production

scheduling and classical inventory models are also discussed in this area. Chapter five

talks about Inventory Control Subject to uncertain demand. Newsboy model as well as

careful discussion of the interpretation of cost is tackled in this chapter. Chapter six of

this book is about Push and Pull Production Control System focuses in MRP and JIT.

MRP and JIT philosophies for manufacturing control were presented in this area. Chapter

seven is about Operations Scheduling. It tackles about the most important results for

sequence scheduling and the effect of sequencing rules on several measures of

performance is made clear by presenting a detailed example showing the effect of the
force sequencing rules. First Come First Serve, Shortest processing time and Critical

Ration. Sequencing algorithm for multiple machines is also presented in this chapter.

Project scheduling, description of the project scheduling problem and how projects are

presented as networks are being discussed in chapter eight. Chapter nine shows

traditional charts for assisting with layout decisions including the from-to-chart and the

Rel chart, brief discussion of several other extensions including models for locating

multiple facilities, location-allocation problems, discrete location model and network

location models are found in this chapter. Quality and assurance is briefly viewed in

chapter ten. Chapter eleven explains reliability and maintability as part of the body of

information comprising production and operation management. Last chapter which is

chapter twelve discussed the recent advances in manufacturing technology, supply chain

management flexibility in manufacturing system, integrating designs of manufacturing

bottle neck scheduling and application of artificial intelligence and expert system to

production control was explained chapter.


Production Organization and Administration

Part one- Organization and Production Management

In this section Production Management, Production and Production Operation is defined.

The three basic elements of production operation are production design, process design,

and material flow. Intermittent process is a one –shift-a-say basis.

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