Operations managementLesson 3 of 4 in the course Achieving World-Class Operations Management

Production Control, Routing, and Project Scheduling Methods

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Summary

Production control helps an organization carry out production and operations as planned, coordinate resources, and correct problems when they occur. This lesson introduces production control, routing, and value-stream mapping.

Every company needs systems to check whether production and operations are proceeding as planned and to correct errors when they are not. Production control is the coordination of materials, equipment, and human resources to achieve production and operating efficiencies.

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Production control
Coordination of materials, equipment, and people to achieve production and operating efficiencies.
Routing
The sequence of machines and operations work follows from start to finish.
Scheduling
Specifying and controlling when each step in a production process occurs.
Gantt chart
A bar graph on a timeline comparing scheduled and actual production progress.
PERT
A project-planning technique that uses optimistic, most probable, and pessimistic task-time estimates.

Quiz questions

  1. Which production-control activity determines when each process step should take place?Answer: Scheduling
  2. What does a Gantt chart display to help a manager assess project progress?Answer: Scheduled and actual time for listed activities
  3. What is the critical path in a project network?Answer: The longest path through linked activities, whose delay can delay the whole project
  4. How does CPM treat the duration of each project activity?Answer: It assumes the duration is known with certainty and uses one estimate.
  5. Which set of task-time estimates does PERT use?Answer: Optimistic, most probable, and pessimistic estimates

Based on Introduction to Business 2e by Lawrence J. Gitman, Carl McDaniel, Amit Shah, Monique Reece, Linda Koffel, Bethann Talsma, James C. Hyatt (OpenStax), licensed CC BY 4.0. Adapted into a summary, flashcards and quizzes.

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