Manufacturing Systems

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Manufacturing Systems
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Table of Contents
Part A...............................................................................................................................................2
i) Review of Manufacturing Systems and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)..........................2
ii) Approach for Establishing Performance Measures at Shop Floor Level Production.............3
iii) Product Flow Analysis (PFA) and Value Stream Mapping (VSM).......................................5
iv) Description of Plant Layouts..................................................................................................7
v) Critical Review and Comparison of Various Tools and Techniques......................................8
vi) Definitions of Terms..............................................................................................................9
Part B.............................................................................................................................................10
Case Study: Performance Assessment of Manufacturing Plant................................................10
Part C.............................................................................................................................................14
Question 3..................................................................................................................................14
Question 7..................................................................................................................................15
References......................................................................................................................................17

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Part A
i) Review of Manufacturing Systems and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
The Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are defined as the use of quantifiable and
strategic form measurement approaches, which would be helpful for reflecting the primary form
of success factors within an enterprise. The international standard ISO provides a definition to
the KPIs based on evaluating on the type of performance within the various operations systems
located within the manufacturing companies (Parmenter 2015). The rapid kind of expansion
within the industry of manufacturing have been the leading factor for the production enterprises.
This would majorly help for maintaining a sufficient level of sustainability, high standards of
quality, flexibility and improved level of productivity. In the present context, the different
manufacturing systems have a plan for the implementation of performance measurement
systems. The main purpose of these systems is to evaluate the current state of operations based
on the different manufacturing activities (May et al. 2015). The use of IT systems have majorly
led for the development of modern tools within the manufacturing systems. Hence, with the help
of such IT systems, it has thus been helpful for gathering a vast estimation and necessary data.
The proper kind of selection of KPIs would help in the systems of manufacturing in order to
fulfil the demands of business.
Based on certain level of standards, KPIs would be mainly described as per their basis of
formula, measurement of unit timings and certain level of characteristics (May et al. 2015).
Despite the efforts for designing the standards in a general form, the KPIs would mainly be
designed based on serving the purpose based on evaluation of performance during the
functioning of various manufacturing tasks.

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In the present years, there have been major kinds of developments within the
manufacturing systems. There are several kinds of major trends within the manufacturing
systems. Different large executives within the manufacturing industry have to play major roles in
leading the organisation towards much higher concentration and consolidation (Bai and Sarkis
2014). There are various kinds of competitive pressures within the manufacturing industry. The
most common form of development is based on significant restructuring (May et al. 2015). The
various kinds of recommendations based on certain competitive issues would emerge in recent
forms of developments. The creation of a competitive advantage would be helpful for
determining several factors in keeping a competitive advantage within the manufacturing
marketplace. This would help the organisation to realise their potential faults and would thus be
able to take certain proactive measures in order to gain a better position in the global marketplace
(Anand and Grover 2015). Based on the massive kinds of developments, there have been a
massive change within the systems of manufacturing. There are different kinds of new forms of
invention in the field of technology, which have been able to address issues within
competitiveness.
ii) Approach for Establishing Performance Measures at Shop Floor Level Production
Performance measurement is defined as one of the most necessary criteria within a
manufacturing organisation. This technique could thus be applied within the organisation based
on measuring the level of performance made by the organisation. There are several kinds of
indirect methods of measures based within the context of performance. This would also the
measures based on performance, which would include operation costing (Hill 2017). It would
also include the identification of several kinds of problems. There are several kinds of methods
and planning techniques based on scheduling that have been majorly developed for their use in

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manufacturing industries. Different kinds of approaches based on modelling would be required
within the manufacturing systems. In the present scenario, the approach that is been used by the
plant management would mostly be able to prioritize the quality of products.
One kind of approach at the shop floor level is the Simple Heuristic approach. This
approach helps in defining the optimal product sequencing based on their due data in a single
machine based on manufacturing (Negahban and Smith 2014). Within this approach, the models
based on linear programming were primarily been developed. This form of approach is mostly
applied based on the major purpose of solving of problems. This form of approach could also be
applicable based on large-scale constraint satisfaction and scheduling problems. This form of
measure have been based on a simple heuristic approach. This approach could be implemented
within several manufacturing companies. This would thus be helpful for different operations of
scheduling based on the exploitation of critical path within a certain network.
Another kind of approach used within the manufacturing systems is also known as linear
programming model (Negahban and Smith 2014). This model would be dependent on
synchronized production planning and scheduling of multi-product batch systems of
manufacturing. There are various scheduling problems that would be able to include the
operational pre-conditions (Fullerton, Kennedy and Widener 2014). It would be important for the
avoidance of comprising for the final delivery product. The different kinds of research within the
activity scheduling based on manufacturing system is also able to include the certain models of
development (Negahban and Smith 2014). The primary objectives of study is based on
scheduling of production within the systems of manufacturing. The study also puts focus on
inventory, planning of horizon costs and production.

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A proper form of mentioned approaches would be helpful for the determination of certain
arising problems within the systems of manufacturing. The following of such kind of strategy by
the manufacturing companies would mostly be benefiting these companies (Barbosa et al. 2015).
Effective type of strategic planning would help the manufacturing business to adopt a dynamical
and methodical process. This would help the companies to focus on their issues and thus take
necessary actions.
iii) Product Flow Analysis (PFA) and Value Stream Mapping (VSM)
Product Flow Analysis (PFA) is defined as an established methodology that would be
mainly used for the purpose of transformation of the functional layout into a product-oriented
layout. The type of methodology used within PFA is part routings based on finding natural
clusters based in certain workstations. This would help in forming of production cells. The PFA
would be helpful in the completion of parts and thus form major components in a swift process
(Snead and Jamison 2015). This would be possible based on simplified kind of material flow.
Based on the successful implementation of PFA, the system of scheduling would be based on the
control of period batch. The main objective of PFA would be to establish production, fixed form
of planning and final delivery cycles. This would entirely be based on the entire production unit.
The methodology of PFA is mainly been applied within the layouts of function. PFA helps in the
improvement of quality, reduced lead times and thus also providing motivation among the
employees within an organisation (Otsuji et al. 2014). The impacts made by PFA also helps in
adding value to operations and also reduces the process variability. Efficient management of
operations is mostly been contributed with the several impacts made by PFA.
Value Stream Mapping (VSM) can be defined as the method of lean management. This
method is entirely based on proper analysis of present state. Based on such kind of analysis, it