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systems approach to process planning and designknowledge about operations strategies product service designs technologies of the production system
evaluation of the process design one of the objectives in designing the process flow is to ensure that goods and services are produced at minimum
relation of process design to types of process flowthere is a definite relationship between the production process and process flow for continuous
organizing process flows five types of process are distinguished they are project production system job shop production system batch production
group technology- cellular manufacturing systemin group technology cellular manufacturing cm machines are grouped into cells and the cells functions
process focused production systemthis is a form of production system in which production operations are grouped according to the type of process in
product focused production systemin this type of production processing the production departments are organized according to the type of product
types of process designsthe basic type of production system and the finished goods inventory policy to be used must be decided at the earliest stages
degree of customer contactthe extent to which customers get involved in the production system has important implications for the design of production
factors affecting process design - level of productin today marketing environment mass produced products with high product quality offer a better
factors affecting process design - degree of automationthe degree of automation to be adopted and integrated into the production
productservice and volume flexibilityability to respond fast to the customers needs known as flexibilitytwo forms of flexibility are product service
degree of vertical integrationvertical integration is the amount of production and distribution chain from suppliers of raw materials and components
scope of process design design of manufacturing process starts with the receipt of product specifications and ends with the final plan for the
process design new product is not realities unit they are manufactured process design is necessary to manufacture new products process design is
step in process selection 1 establish the process selection a preliminary decision regarding process can be taken from but it stand point of function
factors for selection of processesthe following factors should be considered for selection of processes quantity to be produced some processes are
process selection there are many production processes moreover a part or a component can be manufactured by two or more processes the process
quantity to be manufacturedwhen only few parts are to be manufactured we cannot use the processes involving more setups costly tools and special
tolerance and surface finishdesign engineers are always blamed of specifying closer tolerances than necessary it is obvious that to achieve a
capacities of machine tools and surface finishcapacities of machine toolsthe dimensional limitations of machine or equipment and their capacities
factor affecting process planning - choice of plant layoutwhile deciding the sequence of operations the plant layout is to be taken into
processing methodthe process by which product is made has a direct impact on the process planning because variation of the process will
factor affecting process planning size and form of raw materialsprocess planning actually starts with the blank selection the blank or initial raw
aims of functions of process engineering to determine what parts are to be manufactured and what parts to be purchased from outside to determine the