Production Planning and Scheduling Flashcards
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What is 'capacity planning' in production management?
Answer: Determining the production capacity needed to meet demand over time
Capacity planning ensures a manufacturing facility has sufficient production resources to meet current and future demand.
What does 'bottleneck' mean in a production system?
Answer: The operation with the lowest throughput that limits the entire system's output
A bottleneck is the constraining resource whose limited capacity determines the maximum output of the entire production system.
Finite capacity scheduling (FCS) differs from infinite capacity scheduling by:
Answer: Considering actual resource limits when assigning work
FCS accounts for real constraints like machine hours and labor availability, unlike infinite scheduling which assumes unlimited capacity.
What is a Gantt chart used for in production?
Answer: Visualizing the schedule of tasks over time on a timeline
A Gantt chart shows production tasks, their durations, sequences, and timing on a horizontal timeline.
What does 'cycle time' mean in manufacturing?
Answer: The total time to complete one unit from start to finish at one workstation
Cycle time is the elapsed time to produce one unit at a given process step, used to balance workloads and calculate output rates.
In production scheduling, 'job shop' scheduling refers to:
Answer: Managing highly customized orders that follow unique routing through various work centers
Job shop scheduling handles custom orders where each job may have a different sequence of operations through shared machines.