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Chapter 5
Process Analysis
OBJECTIVES
Process Analysis
Process Flowcharting
Types of Processes
Process Flowcharting
Defined
Process flowcharting is the use of a
diagram to present the major elements
of a process
The basic elements can include tasks or
operations, flows of materials or
customers, decision points, and storage
areas or queues
It is an ideal methodology by which to
begin analyzing a process
Flowchart Symbols
Purpose and Examples
Tasks or operations Examples:
Examples: Giving
Givingan an
admission
admissionticket
ticket to
toaa
customer,
customer, installing
installingaa
engine
enginein
inaacar,
car, etc.
etc.
Flowchart Symbols
Purpose and Examples
Storage areas or Examples:
Examples: Sheds,
Sheds,
queues lines
linesofof people
people waiting
waiting
for
for aaservice,
service, etc.
etc.
Flows of Examples:
Examples: Customers
Customers
materials or moving
moving to toaa seat,
seat,
customers mechanic
mechanicgetting
gettingaa
tool,
tool, etc.
etc.
Example: Flowchart of
Student Going to School
Go to Yes
Drive to Walk to
school school class
today?
No
Goof
off
Flowcharts
Marketing
lead
Follow-up
Sales: Initial Sales and/or conversation
conversation consulting drafts between client
with client proposal and sales
Sales
lead No Is proposal
complete?
Consulting: Follow-up
Consulting Initial Consulting conversation Yes
lead conversation with drafts between client
client proposal and consulting Nested Process
Client agreement
and service
delivery
Line of visibility
No
No Payment Yes
received?
Finish Flowchart of the Sales Process for a
Consulting Company
Flowcharts
CUSTOMER
Payment
Order
SALES
Order
completed and
cancelled
submitted
Order cancellation
Order
Notice of shipment
Product packages
`
Order Inventory Production Items Order
entered adjusted scheduled manufactured stopped
PRODUCTION
Production Control
and Manufacturing
Packages
assembled and
inventoried Order Order
Order picked shipped
Assembly and
Shipping
Solved Problem 1
Create a flowchart for the following telephone-ordering process at a
retail chain that specializes in selling books and music CDs. It
provides an ordering system via the telephone to its time-sensitive
customers besides its regular store sales.
The automated system greets customers, asks them to choose a
tone or pulse phone, and routes them accordingly.
The system checks to see whether customers have an existing
account. They can wait for the service representative to open a new
account.
Customers choose between order options and are routed
accordingly.
Customers can cancel the order. Finally, the system asks whether
the customer has additional requests; if not, the process terminates.
SOLUTION
SOLUTION
Types of Processes
Single-stage Process
Stage 1
Multi-stage Process
(Continued)
Make-to-order
– Only activated in response to an actual order
– Both work-in-process and finished goods
inventory kept to a minimum
Make-to-stock
– Process activated to meet expected or
forecast demand
– Customer orders are served from target
stocking level
Metrics
Operation time = Setup time + Run
time
Process Performance
Metrics (Continued)
Cycle time = Average time between
completion of units
Throughput rate = 1 .
Cycle time
Efficiency = Actual output
Standard Output
Productivity = Output
Input
Process Performance
Metrics
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Suppose
Suppose you
you had
had to
to produce
produce 600
600 units
units in
in 80
80 hours
hours
to
to meet
meet the
the demand
demand requirements
requirements ofof aa product.
product.
What
What is
is the
the cycle
cycle time
time to
to meet
meet this
this demand
demand
requirement?
requirement?
Answer:
Answer: There
There are
are 4,800
4,800 minutes
minutes (60(60
minutes/hour
minutes/hour xx 80
80 hours)
hours) in
in 80
80 hours.
hours. So So the
the
average
average time
time between
between completions
completions would
would have
have
to
to be:
be: Cycle
Cycle time
time == 4,800/600
4,800/600 units
units == 88 minutes.
minutes.
Reduce interruptions
Question Bowl
Question Bowl
Which of the following are used as
symbols in a Process Flowchart?
a. Decision points
b. Blocking
c. Starving
d. Bottleneck
e. All of the above
Question Bowl
Which type of process is configured as
follows?
1 2 3
a. Single-stage process
b. Multi-stage process
c. Make-to-order process
d. Make-to-stock process
e. All of the above
Answer: b. Multi-stage process
Question Bowl
Question Bowl
When a company waits until they have an
order for their product in hand before
beginning any production for that order, we
can characterize their operation as which of
the following processes?
a. Single-stage process
b. Multi-stage process
c. Make-to-order process
d. Make-to-stock process
e. All of the above
Question Bowl
If the Run Time for a batch of parts is 45
minutes on a machine, and the Setup Time is
65 minutes, which of the following is the
Operation Time?
a. 75 minutes
b. 110 minutes
c. Only 45 minutes
d. 65/45 minutes or 1.44 hours
e. Can not be computed on the data above
Question Bowl
End of Chapter 5