Titlebook: Managing Manufacturing Operations; A Casebook T. A. J. Nicholson Book 1978 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1

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Quoting Delivery Dates: Parsons Peebles Electric Motorsers has many of the characteristics of flow line production, and, although dealing with very large items, control problems in the transformer company are relatively straightforward in principle. The two companies are managed quite separately.

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Controlling the Jobbing Shop: Midland Components Machine Shop turnover of these three shops in 1972 was respectively £1,150,000, £274,000 and £330,000. The machine shop provides the tool shop with pre-cut blanks for tool manufacture and the machine erection shop with machine parts; it also supplies the finished goods stores with machine parts for stock or spares for customers.

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Producing a Product Range: Perivale Gütermann Threadsread market. The company is located in Perivale, Middlesex and manufactures a range of threads for industrial and domestic use. It has 300 staff of whom 130 are machine operators. The distribution operates through a warehouse at Perivale in the factory premises and through depots at Manchester, Leeds and Nottingham.

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Integrating separate processes: English Steel Plate Mills, delivery performance, and utilisation, while ‘line’ (equipment and running) responsibilities remain under individual plant managers. As Ron Vincent put it: ‘The plant managers have to keep output up regardless of what it is and the production controllers have to make sure that what comes out is the right stuff at the right time.’

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Group Working on a Product Line: Midland Components Star-line00,000 saws and 9000 cutters. The manufacture of the tool requires a blank (often a bar or strip of metal) to be processed on a series of machine tools, lathes, presses, grinders, etc. The blank itself is manufactured from bought-in stock in the Engineering Division’s own machine shop adjacent to the tool shop.