Added Value manufacturing  Neil Towers

Market winners and qualifiers 

Supply Characteristics Mason-Jones et al. (2000)

Fashion attributes

Added value activity of Manufacturing  An increase in the value of the manufacturing process in the eyes of the customer

Production operations  Shop floor layout Determined by process choice  Order Progress Work orders Shop floor documentation

Operations Management  Performance measurement  Resource allocation  Facilities management  Preventive management  Transaction, data and information

Performance measurement  Schedule adherence  Comparing actual against planned lead times  Variance control  Scrap/yield

Resource allocation  People Skills, knowledge, training  Facilities, Tools and equipment Availability, condition and repair

Preventive maintenance  Condition monitoring  Planned maintenance programmes  Operator responsibility and involvement  Process control

Transaction, data and information  Routing file  Process planning  Stock status  Order banks

Waste elimination  Lean and mean operation  Quality considerations  Process Improvement  Managing change