Operations Management

In Quality Assurance we must normally use samples of data drawn from a system that naturally exhibits variation we can make mistakes even in controlled experiments. The process either is in control or it is not or similarly we have a batch of parts of materials that has been generated by a system that either [...]

Due to high tariffs before the liberalization period, most Indian firms enjoyed protection of some kind or the other. Free imports were not forthcoming. Restrictions on royalty payments discouraged foreign suppliers to offer latest technology to Indian partners. Manufactures had a field day as this situation continued for a painfully long time, leading to the [...]

Technology strategy is basically concerned with choices between alternative new technologies, the manner in which they are implemented into new products and processes and the utilization of resources that will allow their successful implementation. It cuts across such functional policies as finance, manufacturing, marketing, R&D as well as corporate wide policies regarding product market focus, [...]

Current Work place Situation: This factory processes metal parts for automobiles. It employs eighty workers. TJ, a veteran with twenty years experience, is the foreman for the final processing operations. TJ has been concerned about something for the past two or three years. His work concerns finishing operation of the parts. It includes repairs and [...]

If we examine the array of products available to the public and to producers, it may seem unreasonable that the productive systems that manufacture them could have common characteristics – the materials   vary widely, the sizes, shapes and weights, are diverse; and the applications and uses are equally different. But if there were no common [...]