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Operations Management - Shop Floor Control

The control of work in progress is one of the most complex day-to-day tasks facing the operations manager. Planning capacity, ensuring that bottlenecks are avoided and generating high levels of shop floor productivity are all part of the challenge. In today's fast moving environment knowing the current status of jobs out there on the factory floor is essential. To achieve excellence in all these tasks requires very good systems and their effective operation.

Some references to shop floor control are as follows:

• Start Magazine - view the archives for relevant articles.
• Institute of Operations Management - search on 'shop floor control'.
• Also try using the keyword 'shop floor control' together with a search engine

Assignment

Compare and contrast a "make to order" with a "job shop" environment in terms of the management task in controlling the shop floor.

Students may like to search for similar sites using keywords such as:

work centres, routings, set up times, capacity planning, bottlenecks, quality circles

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