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Production - Coggle Diagram
Production
Production methods: Production Methods are the way to manage how your products or your suppliers' products are produced. The most adequate method one should select depends on the type of business and the target market.
Job Production: It is a manufacturing process in which single products are produced for a particular customer. An operator, or group of operators work on a single job before proceding to the next similar or different job. Examples include clothes and luxury cars. Ex. Rolls-Royce.
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Batch Production:
It is a manufacturing technique where sets of identical products go through all stages of production simultaneously. In batch production, individual goods do not move on to the next stage until the entire batch is completed.
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Need for more human labour than flow production, and increased employee downtime due to quality control
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Flow Production: Also known as continuous production, it allows for the continuous movement of items trough the production process. It gives the oportunity for a high level of automation on an assembly line. Some examples include bottling and car assembly plants.
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Only allows for standardized products, living little space for changes in the product.
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Technology: The use of new technologies is becoming each time more relevant when talking about production methods. Advantages of using new technologies go from impoving sustainability to increasing profits and labor productivity, allowing for a faster, cheaper, and more sustainable way of manufacturing.
Machinery: The use of modern and advanced machinery is essential to improve the product's quality, production speed, cost of production and even increasing sustainability and lowering production cost by improving labour productivity. It can even improve machine safety to prevent accidents with workers.
Software: The use of modern computers and software allows for a high level of automation and optimization of production methods, software allows a business to have easier bookkeeping, inventory management and higher control over machinery.
Techniques: Technology is not just about machinery, it is also about improving the techniques used for production. Changing a technique used in crop harvert can exponentially increase productivity, by preventing pests or crop failure.
Productivity: Real economic output per labor hour is the definition of labor productivity, commonly referred to as workforce productivity. The change in economic production per labor hour over a predetermined time period serves as a proxy for labor productivity growth. Employee productivity, a measurement of a worker's output, shouldn't be confused with labor productivity.
Increasing Labor productivity: It is essential for every business to increase labor productivity as much as possible. Strategies such as the use of machinery, technology, and proper employee training can exponentially improve the performance of each employee.
Production Methods: Selecting certain production method can affect labor productivity, wholesale production methods like flow production and batch production have the highest productivity, while job production is the least productive.
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