Document Type
Thesis
Date of Award
5-31-1990
Degree Name
Master of Science in Manufacturing Engineering - (M.S.)
Department
Manufacturing Engineering Division
First Advisor
Sanchoy K. Das
Second Advisor
Keith T. O'Brien
Third Advisor
Kevin J. McDermott
Abstract
Information is the catalyst of management and the ingredient that coalesces the managerial functions of planning, organizing, actuating and controlling. The implementation of management information system (MIS) provides the vehicle by which management process can be administered and integrated. Information is at the core of creative thinking, which leads to new ways of improving products, process and services to the invention of new devices and to discovery of new marketable concepts. Thus information for an organization has a dual application for internal operation and external marketing potential.
The organization studied was a small to medium sized batch manufacturer of healthcare products. Three years ago they purchased a generic type of Management Information System oriented towards plastic management. Management had difficulty understanding the mechanism with which the system operated, or the output measures displayed by the system.
This project was concerned with the enhancement of the Management Information System and development of accurate production performance measures, and development of ways to make them available to the managers through the system. To achieve these objectives, first the capabilities of the system, the measures displayed by the system currently, the structure of the organization, and the functioning of existing facilities were studied and an existing system model was developed from the information. Then the critical measures desired by the management were defined, mathematically derived and validated by manual calculations and by system results. Material utilization, labor productivity and machine utilization were evaluated for this purpose.
Recommended Citation
Shah, Bhavik, "Effective use of management information systems in manufacturing" (1990). Theses. 2915.
https://digitalcommons.njit.edu/theses/2915
