Operations Management Process Spectrum
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Briefly discuss the concept of the "cost of quality". Consider both positive and negative costs associated with a typical quality program in a manufacturing facility.
Define a fictitious organization that manufactures frozen food products that are packaged for sale to your retail customers. Briefly identify the levels of vertical integration that you would anticipate being possible for such an operation (include both backward and forward integration in your response). Identify any cautions that you would address when making your decisions to increase vertical integration.
Discuss the concept of the "Process Spectrum". Use examples where appropriate.
Compare and contrast the "Worker Paced Line Flow Process" and the "Machine Paced Line Flow Process" as relates to:
a. Capital use
b. Process speed:
c. Pacing
d. Materials requirements
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Briefly discuss the concept of the "cost of quality". Consider both positive and negative costs associated with a typical quality program in a manufacturing facility.
The cost of quality is representative of the ability to effectively discern between what represents good quality as in the cost of conformance and what represents poor quality, which is predicated upon the cost of non-conformance. When a manufacturing facility engages in poor quality and poor performance that doesn't produce quality products and services, this negatively impacts the internal and external costs that emanate from the company's inability to successfully meet their obligations and business requirements. In reference to the cost of good quality, this impacts the organization's ability to appropriately invest in their future assets and acquisitions to improve the organization's market position and market shares. ...
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