Green manufacturing - companies can reuse, refurbish, or dispose of a product's components safely and reduce total life cycle product costs. Critical to success in today's business environment. Value Analysis - focuses on production design improvement. Analysis - a listing of products in descending order of their individual dollar contribution to the firm and the total annual dollar contribution to the firm. Allows the manager to evaluate possible strategies for each product.
Standardization means interchangeable parts.
Product Documents Engineering drawing - a drawing that shows the dimensions, tolerances, materials, and finishes of a component. Identified the point of production where components flow into subassemblies and ultimately into a final product. If route sheets include specific methods of processing and labor standards, they are referred to as process sheets . Work Order - an instruction to make a given quantity of a particular item, usually to a given schedule. Engineering Change Notices - a correction or modification of an engineering drawing or bill of material.