Utilizing Technology for Manufacturing Efficiency

Part 1 Directions: class discussion and a classmate respouse

If you were an operations manager for a large manufacturing company, how would you use technology to lower the company’s operating costs? Give an example and explain.
classmate respouse:

Jon Boggess
2 hours ago, at 4:43 PM

Perfect discussion to start with. As a current manager in a manufacturing facility, being able to upgrade the way many of the things we do within the plant would help save money. Being able to get a scanner and barcode system that automatically puts in or takes out inventory would save money. This is a bottleneck as some of the products that we store technically aren’t ours until we order them. This would only save minutes on the day-to-day, but if you take those minutes and expand them into weeks, months, to years, the savings would be outstanding. If we used technology to automate some of our other equipment this would also be a savings. An investment to start but with the current issues with getting employees and down time this technology would pay for itself in no time.

PART 2: Assignment – Memo about Operations Management
You are an operations manager at a large car manufacturing plant in the United States. Your Chief Operating Office (COO) has sent a request that you write a memo to address the following:

Define operations management for the car manufacturing industry and give an example.

Define each function of operations management as it relates to the car manufacturing industry and provide examples.

Summarize the value of technological support of operations management and provide a technological support example used by the car manufacturing industry.