Production and Operation Management

A Quality Management System (QMS) is a complex system consisting of all the parts and components of an organization that deal with the quality of processes and products.

Facility layout planning deals with the arrangement of the physical facilities and the workforce required to manufacture a product or perform a service.

The lean manufacturing production system results in productivity advancements by highlighting waste. It results in quality gains by making problems visible when and where they occur and then by having the internal customer take measures to solve the problems to prevent recurrence,

Statistical Quality Control (SQC) monitors, controls, and enhances a process through statistical analysis. Also known as statistical process control, statistical quality control employs statistical techniques to identify deviations in processes or product quality from specified standards.

Acceptance sampling is a sampling inspection in which a decision about the acceptance or rejection of a lot is based on one or more samples that have been inspected.

The difference between production and operations management has been suggested by many to indicate the general applications of the management techniques of machines and materials.