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i. Analysis of operations in the manufacturing operations
ii. Creation and revision of procedures and programs used in manufacturing e.g. use
of queuing models and linear programming.
iii. Decision making in manufacturing e.g. decision tree method.
iv. Quality measurement and controls. Science is used to create standards and criteria
of measurements.
v. Motion study; to create suitable steps and weed out unworthy steps.
vi. Time management; Time is very important in quality improvement. Time study
method can be used.
vii. Factory layouts.
viii. Measurement of profitability and productivity such as use of ratio analysis.
ix. Production planning
x. Improvement of physical working conditions.
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