Production Flow Analysis - cases from manufacturing and service industry

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ID Serval
serval:BIB_B5C986C633E2
Type
Article: article d'un périodique ou d'un magazine.
Collection
Publications
Institution
Titre
Production Flow Analysis - cases from manufacturing and service industry
Périodique
International Journal of Production Economics
Auteur⸱e⸱s
Hameri A.-P.
ISSN
0925-5273
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
02/2011
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
129
Numéro
2
Pages
233-241
Langue
anglais
Résumé
Production flow analysis (PFA) is a well-established methodology used for transforming traditional functional layout into product-oriented layout. The method uses part routings to find natural clusters of workstations forming production cells able to complete parts and components swiftly with simplified material flow. Once implemented, the scheduling system is based on period batch control aiming to establish fixed planning, production and delivery cycles for the whole production unit. PFA is traditionally applied to job-shops with functional layouts, and after reorganization within groups lead times reduce, quality improves and motivation among personnel improves. Several papers have documented this, yet no research has studied its application to service operations management. This paper aims to show that PFA can well be applied not only to job-shop and assembly operations, but also to back-office and service processes with real cases. The cases clearly show that PFA reduces non-value adding operations, introduces flow by evening out bottlenecks and diminishes process variability, all of which contribute to efficient operations management.
Mots-clé
Production flow analysis, Service industry, Cellular production, Functional layout, Product layout, Operations management
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24/02/2011 12:53
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20/08/2019 15:24
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