Every manufacturing manager has to know what customer wants and must be able to design a system that produces what the customer wants at a profit. No doubt a manager can take the help of many specialists in this activity and also consultants.
The course on Manufacturing and Supply Chain Design by MIT is an interesting course in this respect.
Full course lectures are available in the course page.
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sloan-school-of-management/15-763j-manufacturing-system-and-supply-chain-design-spring-2005/lecture-notes/
Faculty Stephen Graves
Some Information of the Course
Main topic covered in the course.
Manufacturing system design
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Supply chain design: network
optimization, sourcing, pricing
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Flexibility and capacity planning
Manufacturing system design
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sloan-school-of-management/15-763j-manufacturing-system-and-supply-chain-design-spring-2005/lecture-notes/desgn_of_man_sys.pdf
For the design process, Graves gives the following sequence
Design Process
• Benchmarking and best practices
• Development of design concept
• Development of design guidelines
• Detailed design process
• Development of personnel and material requirements
• Installation and verification of processes and procedures
Technology selection is an important issue in manufacturing system design and Graves has not included it in the step. Technology has a relationship to capital requirement and manpower requirement and hence optimal decision is an economic one. Capital costs and manpower costs over the life of the technology decide the technology choice whenever alternatives exist.
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