This week’s topics
Process Design and Workflow
- Process types and manufacturing volumes
- Facility layout design
- Process mapping symbols
- Identifying process bottlenecks
- Lecture 6 Process Selection and Facility Layout
- Process Mapping
- Facility Layout in Operations Management - Product vs Process Oriented Layout & Fixed
What you will be able to do
- 1.2 Describe basic process design and workflow concepts used in operations.
Activity
Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: describe basic process design and workflow concepts used in operations.
Study materials
Videos
- Lecture 6 Process Selection and Facility Layout · YouTube · Eddy Witzel · 23 min · for registered students
- Process Mapping · YouTube · Galton College · 30 min · for registered students
- Facility Layout in Operations Management - Product vs Process Oriented Layout & Fixed · YouTube · Dr. Haywood · 4 min · for registered students
Further resources
- Operations Management (Fanshawe), ch. 10: Layout Strategy and Design · Reading · Other, textbook chapter; PDF pp. 399–440 · for registered students
- Introduction to Business 2e, ch. 10: Achieving World-Class Operations Management · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 341–374 · for registered students
- Exploring Business, ch. 11: Operations Management in Manufacturing and Service Industries · PDF · Saylor Academy, textbook chapter; PDF pp. 565–614 · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.
