This weeks' discussion board post requires you to role play! Take note of the interactive lecture and then step into role. I do believe you will enjoy thinking about this topic and trying to identify risks that others in class have not yet identified. Hopefully you will find the assigned reading and your own references to be just as engaging.? Good luck!? I'm looking forward to your posts!??

Here is something to think about. I've used a 2019 source byLazovto frame some thoughts.

(1) Objectives.

For this lesson, our learning objectives are to determine which manufacturing system(s) produces the most correct outputs (outcomes) with the least amount of errors (cost efficiencies), given the same risk-level.

(2) Definitions.

A manufacturing system consists of a machine and conveyor.

Types of manufacturing systems include 1. Information Linear, 2. Erlang Held, 3. Binomial Held, and 4. Pascal Held.

Metrics are measurements that include quantitative and qualitative, objective and subjective, economic and non-economic categories. All measurements are subject to error, including Manufacturing System Measures.

Low-error-free measurements are labeled as reliable. The more reliable a measurement is, the fewer errors it has.

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) tend to be a mixture of quantitative and qualitative, objective and subjective, and economic and non-economic categories.

(3) Observations.

The authors analyze a manufacturing system, which consists of a machine and conveyor. The authors assume that a machine continuously processes parts such that raw materials are always available.

Moreover, the authors assume that a finished part is transported immediately by an automatic conveyor to an assembly cell. Also, the authors assume the machine is stopped as soon as there are M parts on the conveyor, which prevents too many parts from being simultaneously on the conveyor. Finally, the authors assume that the conveyor is stopped when there are no parts on it, and the conveyor is turned on again when a part comes on the conveyor.

See Table 1. for a Comparison of System Measures, given the target throughput of 300,000 computer printer parts per month.

(4) Questions.

In your role as Project Leader, which System would you identify as the best, given the information in Table 1?

Table 1. Comparison of system measures, given target throughput (Csys = 300, 000 parts/month), for a manufacturing system (M = 10, T = 1 part/min). System type P PM,max P (U mach =U con) S(p) SM,max S/SM,max (%) U con (p) (70) U mach (p) (70) U(P (U mach =U con)) (%%) range(p) Linear 1.57 1.763 2.398 73.52 99.598 63.44 90.909 4.51 I. Lazov Pascal 0.70 0.38 0.32 1.734 2.250 77.07 99.988 67.87 97.787 - 7.87 Erlang 11.8 5.77 4.53 1.716 2.164 79.30 99.998 70.63 98.913 -9.58 Binomial 5.0 1.538 1.876 81.98 99.999 83.85 99.902 - 16.09