Production system: manufacturing support systems and facilities

Mfg costs – fixed and variable costs.

• Mfg costs – fixed and variable costs.
• Fixed costs-remains constant for any level of prod.
• Variable costs-varies in proportion to the level of prod.
• Let TC = total annual costs (RM/yr), FC = fixed annual costs (RM/yr), VC= variable costs (RM/pc) and Q = annual quantity produced (pc/yr).

• Typical Factory Overhead Expenses

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Industrial Automation

• Industrial Automation
• The technology by which a process or procedure is accomplished without human assistance.
• A technique that can be used to reduce costs and/or to improve quality.
• Can increase manufacturing speed, while reducing cost.
• Can lead to products having consistent quality, perhaps even consistently good quality
• It is implemented using a program of instructions combined with a control system that executes the instructions

To automate a process, power is required, both to drive the process itself and to operate the program and control system.

• To automate a process, power is required, both to drive the process itself and to operate the program and control system.
• Automated processes can be controlled by human operators, by computers, or by a combination of the two.

• Industrial Automation

• Automated Assembly lines

Automation is a technique that can be used to reduce costs and/or to improve quality. Automation can increase manufacturing speed, while reducing cost. Automation can lead to products having consistent quality, perhaps even consistently good quality.

• Automation is a technique that can be used to reduce costs and/or to improve quality. Automation can increase manufacturing speed, while reducing cost. Automation can lead to products having consistent quality, perhaps even consistently good quality.
• OR
• Automation is a technology concerned with application of mechanical, electronic and computer-based system to operate and control system. This technology includes;