4. INTRODUCTION – OPERATION MANAGEMENT
According to business:- operation management refers to a focus on the
practices designed to monitor and manage all of the processes within the
production and the distribution of products and services.
According to healthcare:- Healthcare is extremely diverse industry. It
includes institutions and practitioners that offer services for the diagnosis,
treatment and prevention of injury, illness, disease, and other physical and
mental impairments.
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6. ROLES OF OPERATIONS
MANAGEMENT
OPERATION MANAGEMENT transforms input into output.
INPUTS are resources such as:
People
material
money.
OUTPUT are goods and services.
7. FUNCTIONS OF OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
Product selection and design
Process selection and planning
Facilities (Plant) location
Capacity Planning
Inventory control
Quality assurance and control
Designing of product
Maintenance and replacement
8. EVOLUTION OF OPERATION MANAGEMENT
Craft management:- Process of handcrafting products and services for
individual customer.
Division labour:- Dividing a job into a series of small tasks each
performed by a different workers.
Interchangeable parts:- Standardization of parts initially as
replacement parts; enabled mass production.
9. EVOLUTION OF OPERATION MANAGEMENT(cont.)
SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT:- Systematic analysis of work methods.
MASS PRODUCTION:- High volume production of a standardized
product for mass market.
LEAN PRODUCTION:- Adaptation of mass production that prizes
quality and flexibility.