Product Families
Book chapter, 2015

This article is about how products with the same or similar design characteristics can be grouped into families, which results in shorter overall setting times when they are produced on the same machine or group of facilities. This can result in improved efficiency since the time spent resetting a production facility results in a significant loss of capacity and also causes management to produce larger batches than may be required to satisfy immediate demand.

setting time

cells

product families

coding and classification

Author

David Bennett

Chalmers, Technology Management and Economics, Supply and Operations Management

Wiley Encyclopedia of Management, Volume 10, Operations Management, 3rd Edition


978-1-119-97251-8 (ISBN)

Subject Categories

Other Engineering and Technologies

Business Administration

Areas of Advance

Production

DOI

10.1002/9781118785317.weom100060

ISBN

978-1-119-97251-8

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12/13/2018