OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT

XLRI

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DID YOU KNOW?

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DID YOU KNOW?

ClockSpeed

Charles Fine MIT

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GOAL

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WILL HUMANS REMAIN IN OPERATIONS

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OIL

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OIL

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RARE EARTH

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OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
THE CONSTANTS?

1. Process
2 Inventory
3. Project

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COUNTRY TO WATCH

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COUNTRY TO WATCH:CHINA

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WHAT MAY NOT CHANGE?

1. Process
2 Inventory
3. Project

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SHELL GAME LEARNINGS

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STRENGTHS

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OPPORTUNITIES FOR IMPROVEMENT

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BAD APPLE THEORY
BAD APPLE THEORY

• Process or Person
THE CONCEPT OF BOTTLENECK

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 THE CONCEPT OF BOTTLENECK

 The neck or mouth of a bottle

 The narrow section of road or traffic junction that impedes traffic
 THE CONCEPT OF BOTTLENECK

5 Focusing Steps of the Process of Ongoing Improvement

Step 0: Agree on the System GOAL (to define “Constraint” and “problem”)
Step 1: IDENTIFY the System Constraint (the Weakest Link)
Step 2: Decide how to EXPLOIT (protect - not Waste) the System Constraint
Step 3: SUBORDINATE everything to the above decision
Step 4: ELEVATE the Constraint
Step 5: If the constraint was removed in previous steps, GO BACK to Step 1

Supply Demand
10/hr 12/hr 8/hr 11/hr 10/hr
10/hr 10/hr
System Constraint

Step 1 Step 2 : Step 3: Step 4:

Identify the System Decide how to Exploit Subordinate (Decide when and how to )
Constraint the System Constraint everything to this Elevate the System Constraint
decision 120%
$120m Potential for Constraint
100% 100% Elevation
100%
$100m $100m Murphy / Common Cause $100m Murphy / Common Cause
Potential for more
Overproduction / Rework
Goal Units 80%
Starvation, Blockage
(Constraint Exploitation) $80m
60% Planned/Unplanned Downtime New level of
60% Constraint
$60m Current level of Current level of
$60m Exploitation
Constraint Constraint
Exploitation Exploitation
Step 5: Go back to Step 1
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DIFFICULTY IN IDENTIFYING BOTTLENECKS

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MEASUREMENTS DRIVE BEHAVIOR!!!

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VALUE ADDED WORK

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VALUE ADDED WORK VS NON VALUE ADDED

If a customer could see all of

the activities in your company,
would he be prepared to pay
Transporting for them?

Overproduction Because that is what he does!

Seven Muda
(waste)
Non Value adding to product or Waiting
service from the POV of the Customer

Unnecessary
Motion

Inappropriate Unnecessary
Processing Inventory
Defects
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CANNOT HAVE A ONE SIZE FIT ALL

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THE CAST OF CHARACTERS

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WHOM SHOULD WE REMEMBER FROM
HISTORY?

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 LESSONS FROM HISTORY

YEAR CONTRIBUTION BY

1776 SPECIALIZATION OF LABOUR ADAM SMITH/

BABBAGE

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 EARLY PRACTICES – ADAM SMITH

 An Economist
 1776 – “Wealth of Nations”
 Proposed the “Division of Labor”
 Example : Pin Manufacturing Industry
10 workmen
Individually making pins - 10 / day
Workmen doing specialized tasks – 48000 / day

Domestic System (USA) versus Craft Guilds (UK)

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 EARLY PRACTICES – CHARLES BABBAGE

 Work in 1852
 A Mathematician
 Expanded on Adam Smith’s ideas
 Costing
 Four more Reasons
 Reduces time for learning
 Reduces Waste
 Attainment of higher Skills
 We can match skill to task

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CLAUDE SHANNON – HICK HYMAN LAW

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CLAUDE SHANNON – HICK HYMAN LAW

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A HISTORICAL SUMMARY

YEAR CONTRIBUTION BY

1776 SPECIALIZATION OF LABOR ADAM SMITH/

BAGGAGE
1779 INTERCHANGEABLE PARTS WHITNEY

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 INTERCHANGEABLE PARTS

• Born 1765; died 1825

• In 1798, received government
contract to make 10,000
muskets
• Showed that machine tools
could make standardized parts
to exact specifications
– Musket parts could be used in any
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musket

Eli Whitney • Other Examples

Was helped by the ability to machine hardened steel: Dimensional Creep

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THE IMPACT OF STANDARDS

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 FILE CLIP

• File Clip

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 PEN

• Pen

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THE CONTAINER

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AFTER INTERCHANGEABLE PARTS WHAT?

 Process (ISO 9000)

 Business process
 Interoganization Process

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 THE EGG SHELL

REVERSING THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

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 OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT

A HISTORICAL SUMMARY

YEAR CONTRIBUTION BY

1776 SPECIALIZATION OF LABOUR ADAM SMITH/

BABBAGE
1779 INTERCHANGABLE PARTS WHITNEY
1900 SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT TAYLOR

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 SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT

• Born 1856; died 1915

• Known as ‘father of scientific
management’
• In 1881, as chief engineer for Midvale
Steel, studied how tasks were done
– Began first time & motion studies
• Created efficiency
principles
Frederick W.
Taylor
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• What is Scientific Management?

Frederick W.
Taylor
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Taylor: Management Should

Take More Responsibility for
• Matching employees to right job
• Providing the proper training
• Providing proper work methods and tools
• Establishing legitimate incentives for
work to be accomplished

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 SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT

 F.W. Taylor, Mechanical Engineer, 1900

 e.g. Life as an UPS pickup driver
 Taylor’s Studies
 12.5 tons being loaded increased to 48 tons
 Optimum size of shovel is 21 pound size

“one best way to do a job exists”

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 SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT - PROPONENTS

Frank & Lillian Gilbreth

• Frank (1868-1924); Lillian
(1878-1972)
• Husband-and-wife engineering
team
• Further developed work
measurement methods
• Applied efficiency methods to
their home & 12 children!
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SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT IN PRACTICE

‘Make them all

alike!’

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SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT IN PRACTICE

Henry Ford
• Born 1863; died 1947 ‘Make them all
alike!’
• In 1903, created Ford
Motor Company
• In 1913, first used
moving assembly line
to make Model T 1995 Corel
Corp.

– Unfinished product
moved by conveyor
past work station
• Paid workers very well for 1911 ($5/day!)
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SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT - PROPONENTS

Henry Ford
• Model A to T in 5 years ‘Make them all
alike!’
• Model A, time – 8.56 hrs

• Parts Interchangeability and

Material handlers to give 1995 Corel
Corp.
parts: Time = 2.3 mins
(Car stationary on stands,
Worker Moved)
• Assembly line Time = 1.19mins
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SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT - PROPONENTS

Andrew Carnegie
• Steel Industry: 1870 $100/Ton, 1890: $12/Ton

Sears
• Automated Order processing / Warehouse
– Mail Order Company
– Stock turns (Inventory Turns)

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 SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT

To American production, without which this war would have been lost

Joseph Stalin
Toasting US at the Teheran summit, 1943

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 SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT

“one best way to do a job exists and manager’s responsibility to find it”

Biography: The One Best Way, Harvard school Rajiv Misra

 OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT

A HISTORICAL SUMMARY

YEAR CONTRIBUTION BY

1776 SPECIALIZATION OF LABOUR ADAM SMITH/

BABBAGE
1779 INTERCHANGABLE PARTS WHITNEY
1900 SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT TAYLOR
1901 SCHEDULING TECHNIQUES GANTT

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 OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT

A HISTORICAL SUMMARY

YEAR CONTRIBUTION BY

1776 SPECIALIZATION OF LABOUR ADAM SMITH/

BABBAGE
1779 INTERCHANGABLE PARTS WHITNEY
1900 SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT TAYLOR
1901 SCHEDULING TECHNIQUES GANTT
1915 ECONOMIC ORDER QUANTITY HARRIS
1927 HUMAN RELATIONS MAYO
1931 SQC SHEWART
1935 SAMPLING DODGE/ROMING

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 GANTT CHART

Time Period
Activity
J F M A M J J
Design
Build
Test

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GANTT CHART

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 COSTS ARE ALSO IMPORTANT

A HISTORICAL SUMMARY

YEAR CONTRIBUTION BY

1776 SPECIALIZATION OF LABOUR ADAM SMITH/

BABBAGE
1779 INTERCHANGABLE PARTS WHITNEY
1900 SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT TAYLOR
1901 SCHEDULING TECHNIQUES GANTT

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 OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT

A HISTORICAL SUMMARY

YEAR CONTRIBUTION BY

1776 SPECIALIZATION OF LABOUR ADAM SMITH/

BAGGAGE
1779 INTERCHANGABLE PARTS WHITNEY
1900 SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT TAYLOR
1901 SCHEDULING TECHNIQUES GANTT
1915 ECONOMIC ORDER QUANTITY HARRIS
1927 HUMAN RELATIONS MAYO

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 HUMAN RELATIONS – ELTON MAYO

 Hawthorne effect.
 Elton Mayo was trying to study the effect of lighting on
productivity at a Western Electric plant in Hawthorne, Illinois. He
divided workers into two groups. For the test group, he increased
the illumination in their work area. Productivity went up. For the
control group, he left the lighting the same. Productivity went up.
 That made no sense to Mayo, so he tried another study. He
took a group of female workers, gave them regularly scheduled
rest periods, company paid lunches and shorter work weeks.
Productivity went up. Eighteen months later, all those perks were
eliminated. And productivity? It went up once again.
 Mayo concluded that productivity increased every time he
paid attention to workers.
 Tip: Pay attention to your people.

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TQM: TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT

Six Sigma

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 OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT

A HISTORICAL SUMMARY

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 OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT

A HISTORICAL SUMMARY

YEAR CONTRIBUTION BY

1776 SPECIALIZATION OF LABOUR ADAM SMITH/

BAGGAGE
1779 INTERCHANGABLE PARTS WHITNEY
1900 SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT TAYLOR
1901 SCHEDULING TECHNIQUES GANTT
1915 ECONOMIC ORDER QUANTITY HARRIS
1927 HUMAN RELATIONS MAYO
1931 SQC DEMING/ SHEWART
1935 SAMPLING DODGE/ROMING

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STATISTICAL QUALITY CONTROL

W. Edwards Deming
• Born 1900; died 1993
• Engineer & physicist
• Credited with teaching Japan
quality control methods in
post-WW2
• Used statistics to analyze
process
• His methods involve workers
in decisions
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STATISTICAL QUALITY CONTROL

W. Edwards Deming

In God we trust, the rest must bring data

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STATISTICAL QUALITY CONTROL

Paper Tearing

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 STATISTICAL QUALITY CONTROL

Plot of Sample Data Over Time

70
60
Sample Value

Sample
50 Value
40 UCL
30 Average
20
10 LCL
0
1 5 9 13 17 21
Time

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 STATISTICAL QUALITY CONTROL
THE THREE GURUS

Juran (Cost of Poor Quality)

• Control Costs
• Prevention
• Appraisal
• Failure Costs
• Internal
• External
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 STATISTICAL QUALITY CONTROL
THE THREE GURUS

• Deming
• Juran (Cost of Poor Quality)
• Crosby (Quality is Free, Eventually) Total Cost of Ownership

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OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT

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FOCUSED

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TOC

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LEAN

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 OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT

A HISTORICAL SUMMARY (Cont’d)

YEAR CONTRIBUTION BY

1940 OR IN WAR
1948 LP/ DIGITAL COMPUTER
1950 NON LINEAR PROG./ STOCHASTIC
1970 OPERATIONS STRATEGY/ MRP SKINNER/ORLICKY
1980 QUALITY IN JAPAN/CAD-CAM Goal – GOLDRATT/ OHNO
1990 INTERNET/ERP
1995 SCM/CRM
2000 INTEGRATED SOLUTION
2015 PRESCRIPTIVE SOLUTIONS ???
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HISTORICAL SUMMARY

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THE FOUR PLANTS TO STUDY

1 Adam Smith-- Pin Factory

2 Ford
3. Hawthorne GE
4. Toyoto

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 THE SOLUTION TOOL KIT

The Designing and Improvement of Processes

1.0 of 5.0 Taylorism: Scientific Management

The One Best Way: HBS

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 THE SOLUTION TOOL KIT

The Designing and Improvement of Processes

2.0 of 5.0 Total Quality Management

Deming/Juran/Crosby

Out of Crisis: Deming

14 principles of Deming
Quality is free Crosby
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 THE SOLUTION TOOL KIT

The Designing and Improvement of Processes

3.0 of 5.0 FOCUSED FACTORIES

Tradeoffs
Skinner

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 THE SOLUTION TOOL KIT

The Designing and Improvement of Processes

4.0 of 5.0 Lean: Japanese

No tradeoffs

The Machine that changed the world: MIT

www.youtube.com/simpleximprovement
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 THE SOLUTION TOOL KIT

The Designing and Improvement of Processes

5.0 of 5.0 The Theory of Constraints: Bottleneck

The Goal: Goldratt

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THE SOLUTION TOOL KIT

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THE SOLUTION TOOL KIT

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THE FOUR PLANTS TO STUDY

1 Adam Smith-- Pin Factory

2 Ford
3. Hawthorne GE
4. Toyota

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