Manufacturing Strategy Course Outline

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Session 1 Manufacturing - Missing link in Corporate StrategyPDF document From Filing and Fitting to Flexible ManufacturingPDF document

Session 2
Discussion: Contribution of Manufacturing to business strategy Discussion: Changing role of manufacturing Pre reading: From filling and fitting to flexible manufacturing: A study in the evolution of Process Control (R Jaikumar, Foundation and trends in technology, operations and information management, Vol 1, No 1, 2005) Pages 5 to 17 and 96 to 114 to be read by all groups Group 1: pages 18 to 24 Group 2: pages 25 to 37 Group 3: pages 38 to 53 Group 4: pages 54 to 69 Group 5: pages 70 to 82 Group 6: pages 83 to 95

Extension of Jaikukmar's articleAssignment

Session 3
Discussion: Operations intervention in business strategy

Submission: Current changes in gun making process and role of manufacturing

The Five Competitive forces that shape strategyPDF document

Session 4
Operations strategy and Location

The Plant Location PuzzlePDF document

Case Questions: 1. Map the business of Eldora on the basis of 5 forces model 2. Should Eldora set up a plant in China? Why 3. Evaluate the advantages and of the different options that Eldora has.

Pre reading Competetive advatage of foreign plantsPDF document New World manufacturing orderPDF document

Session 5
Discussion: Steel industry from large plants, to mini mills to large plants Assignment: Groups to document history of steel industry in different countries Groups 1: United Kingdom and Europe Group 2: USA Group 3: Japan Group 4: India Focus on the type of technologies used, capacity growth, product variety, plant locations, etc. To be submitted at the beginning of the class. (4 marks)

Session 6
Case: Copeland Corporation: Evolution of Manufacturing Strategy( A) (HBS Case 9 686 088) Case Questions 1. In what ways has Copeland's manufacturing strategy changed between 1975 and 1982? 2. What did the company learn from its experiences at Hartselle, Rushville, and Shelby?

Pre reading

Competing through ManufacturingPDF document

Session 7
Case: Copeland Corporation: Evolution of Manufacturing Strategy( A) (HBS Case 9 686 088) Case Questions 1. How should the Sidney plant be focused? 2. What implementation issues do you see?

Pre reading The focused factory (Skinner, Wickham. Harvard Business Review, May/Jun74, Vol. 52 Issue 3, p113-121)PDF document

Session 8
Case: Eli Lilly and Company: Manufacturing Process Technology Strategy (1991)

(HBSP 9 692

056)
Case Questions: 1. Write a note on the role of Manufacturing at Eli Lilly before 1987? 2. What have been the strategies for growth till 1987?

Do a cost analysis for the three possible strategies. Do consider the time value of money

1. Strategies for capacity expansion (Lieberman, Marvin B.. Sloan Management Review, Summer87, Vol. 28 Issue 4, p19-27)file

10 Session 9 Case: Eli Lilly and Company: Manufacturing Process Technology Strategy (1991) (HBSP 9 692 056)
Case Questions: 1. Which of the three strategies do you recommend? Why? 2. What are the difficulties in implementation that you foresee?

Pre reading Another look at how Toyota Integrates Product Development (Sobek II, Durward K.; Liker, Jeffrey K.; Ward, Allen C., Harvard Business Review, Jul/Aug98, Vol. 76 Issue 4, p36-49)PDF document

11 Session 10 Discussion: Flexibility, product features and speed as advantage Pre reading 2. The Management of Manufacturing flexibility (Upton, David M.. California
Management Review, Winter94, Vol. 36 Issue 2, p72-89)PDF document

3. Clockspeed based strategies for supply chain design (Fine, Charles, Production and Operations Management, Volume 9, Number 3, Fall 2000, p 213 221)PDF document Submission of Term paper