Do the tactical issues include plant layout and structure, project management methods, and equipment selection and replacement?

Yes, the tactical issues does include plant layout and structure, project management methods, and equipment selection and replacement.

"Operations Management deals with the design and management of products, processes, services and supply chains. It considers the acquisition, development, and utilization of resources that firms need to deliver the goods and services their clients want. The purvey of OM ranges from strategic to tactical and operational levels. Representative strategic issues include determining the size and location of manufacturing plants, deciding the structure of service or telecommunications networks, and designing technology supply chains. Tactical issues include plant layout and structure, project management methods, and equipment selection and replacement. Operational issues include production scheduling and control, inventory management, quality control and inspection, traffic and materials handling, and equipment maintenance policies." Directions:

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Yes, very much after settling the issue of your huge and bulky material getting to your site and large body of water for cooling, the equips mounting floor need to be prepared to match the equipement load (weight) so that the floor do not cave-in under the weight. the structure put in place will also determine your selection and replacement both now and furture.

almost yes. project management is important and method of planting and harvesting.

Equipment selection and replacement

Partly, sometimes replacement and equiment selection

Operations Management deals with the design and management of products, processes, services and supply chains. It considers the acquisition, development, and utilization of resources that firms need to deliver the goods and services their clients want.

The purvey of OM ranges from strategic to tactical and operational levels. Representative strategic issues include determining the size and location of manufacturing plants, deciding the structure of service or telecommunications networks, and designing technology supply chains.

Tactical issues include plant layout and structure, project management methods, and equipment selection and replacement. Operational issues include production scheduling and control, inventory management, quality control and inspection, traffic and materials handling, and equipment maintenance policies.

methods, and equipment selection and replacement. Operational issues includeproduction scheduling and control, inventory management, quality control and inspection, traffic and materials handling, and equipment maintenance policies

Yes, all these Parameters need to be considered in depth.

The selection of the production process in all its components makes possible the implementation 

the next phase of the "feasibility study", which consists in identifying the 

"Layout solutions": 

 at the macro level (the general layout of the factory); 

 at the intermediate level (floor plan of the units of production); 

 at the micro level (layout of the machine). 

The layout choices are strongly characterized by the type of "production process" that is 

previously identified, particularly interested to know if it is a process to 

cycle obliged or less and, more particularly, if it is a process of intermittent type, 

intended to limit the production unitary, or continuous type. 

The main types of layouts generally identified in the literature are the following: 

 layout for the product; 

 layout process; 

 layout to a fixed location.

The choice of the production process and its definition requires you to make choices about 

the two "types of industrial plants on the farm": 

1. the "process plants properly so called"; 

2. the "service systems". 

These different types of systems, which together contribute to constituting 

the industrial plant, can assume a greater or lesser importance, depending on the 

The selection of the production process in all its components makes possible the implementation 

the next phase of the "feasibility study", which consists in identifying the 

"Layout solutions": 

 at the macro level (the general layout of the factory); 

 at the intermediate level (floor plan of the units of production); 

 at the micro level (layout of the machine). 

The layout choices are strongly characterized by the type of "production process" that is 

previously identified, particularly interested to know if it is a process to 

cycle obliged or less and, more particularly, if it is a process of intermittent type, 

intended to limit the production unitary, or continuous type. 

The main types of layouts generally identified in the literature are the following: 

 layout for the product; 

 layout process; 

 layout to a fixed location.

The choice of the production process and its definition requires you to make choices about 

the two "types of industrial plants on the farm": 

1. the "process plants properly so called"; 

2. the "service systems". 

These different types of systems, which together contribute to constituting 

the industrial plant, can assume a greater or lesser importance, depending on the 

type of product offered and the type of process chosen (this aspect will assume 

particular significance in the design phase of the lay-out). The two types of plants, of 

process and service, they are also quite dissimilar, both for the purposes and 

technical characteristics, both for the type of actions required for their selection / design. 

The choice of the production process falls mainly on figures with expertise in 

field of mechanical technology, that must be committed in the design process and 

select the related plants having regard to the type of product that the company intends to achieve and the strategy that the company intended to refer. In function of the production process 

chosen will be selected production facilities required, as well as the installations involved 

the provision of services required to productive resources and human resources present in the 

establishment. The selection of service facilities appears, moreover, quite less 

difficult than the design / selection of process plants. In fact, the 

machinery for the provision of services are sufficiently standardized to 

allow their selection based on the knowledge of certain functional parameters that 

acquire the value of index figures, representative of assigned production processes. 

It is sufficient to note here that the production processes hosted in a larger system 

manufacturing / industrial (itself considered to be placed in a broader context, that 

of an industrial company) can be variously classified according to different 

considerations: 

 based on the determination of the sequence of operations which must be subject to the 

material for obtaining the finished product (process cycle obliged / cycle not 

obbligato); 

 depending on how you answer the question (production to order / of the program); 

 according to the mode of production (volume / intermittent / continuous); 

 based mode of realization of the products (for parts-assembly / manufacturing); 

 according to size; 

 based on the relationship between capital and labor (an expression of the degree of automation 

the company).