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MAN 1033-1 Operations and Supply Chain Management

Assignment # 5

The purpose of this assignment is to learn different types of processes used to produce goods and

services:

2. What type of process – project, job shop, flow shop, and continuous flow – would most

likely be used to produce the following?

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a. Gasoline: Continuous Flow

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Gasoline is processed into a single product, so it requires a continuous production flow without

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b. Air-conditioners: Flow shop

While producing air conditioners, most parts, subassemblies, raw materials should follow a flow
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or step by step method of production in order to get finished product.

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c. Specialized machine tools: Job Shop

The specialized machine tools are customised products required by the customers. Hence, it
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comes under job shop process.

d. Ships: Project
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Ships are sequentially built to be indistinguishable from each other. It is a long run process and
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takes much time to build one. Hence, it is considered as a Project.

e. Producing many flavors of ice cream: Continuous Flow or Job Shop

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Different flavors are required by customers and each should satisfy the customers. Continuous

flow happens with changeovers for cleaning and adding flavours. It also has some characteristics

of job shop.

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