Production Planning

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It is the function of the worker to carry out management's wishes
without question.

Many of today's method's of operation management have elements of the
above stated principles. For example, part of Material Requirement Planning
system (MRP) is learning how workers to hire, fire, or lay idle. This is
because it we realize the a worker can only produce so many widgets a day, can
work so many hours a day, and so many days a year.
I will disagree with principle “c” in that the worker should blindly
carry out the wishes of management. Successful operations are based upon a two-
way flow of thought and suggestions from management to labor. This two-way flow
of ideas is incorporated into another modern system of operations management,
the Just - In - Time system. Eastman Kodak gives monetary rewards to employees
who devises an improvement in a current process or suggests an entirely new
process of manufacturing. Often a small suggestion can yield a big reward when
applied to a ...

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From this product explosion matrix I have realized that an end
product does not just happen; they consist of many subassemblies, parts and raw
material.
We also determined the minimal direct costs to each of the eight
products. The minimal direct product is the cost of the raw material, plus the
price of the amount of labor for the assembly to end product. For product one
we have a total of three raw material “twenty-one” which cost ten dollars a
piece and one raw material “twenty-four” which cost twenty dollars each. We now
have a total of fifty dollars for the price of the parts. Next we calculate the
labor that goes into transforming these parts into a viable end product. We get
a ...

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