Please Help With Work Method Ergonomic Analysis

1) Studying the example of a Process Flowchart, show a process flowchart for a process that you are familiar with at your place of work.

2) What is the difference between a single stage and a multi-stage process?

3) What is buffering of a process?

4) What is blocking of a process?

5) What is the difference between a make to stock, made to order, and a hybrid system to produce products?

6) Compare and contrast the processes used by McDonalds, Burger King and Wendy's for serving customers?

7) What are paced and non-paced processes?

8) What are problems with metrics as they are utilized in industry?

9) How are the metrics of utilization, total factor productivity, partial factor productivity and efficiency used in industry?

10) What do you understand by run time, setup time, operation time, throughput time, throughput rate, process velocity, and value-added time.

11) What is Little's Law?

12) Provide an example of performing activities in parallel to reduce process throughput time.

13)Provide an example of changing the sequence of activities to reduce process throughput time.

14) Provide an example of reducing interruptions in activities to reduce process throughput time.

15) Explain using a funnel how inventory in a process can be explained.