Title: Plan for production.
Course: Manufacturing Systems II, Advanced (13002-II) > Section: Using Advanced Manufacturing Systems Processes

Planning for production should include

- basic components of production planning: company’s capacity for production, production rate, production strategies
- demonstration of technical writing skills in development of a product plan
- rapid prototyping
- ability to calculate output capacity
- use of spreadsheet to graphically display a monthly production schedule.

Process/Skill Questions:

- What is an example of rapid prototyping?
- Why is production planning necessary?
- What are some common methods of generating a production schedule?
- How is a time study conducted for a process?