Ib Business Management - 5.2 Production Methods Summary Notes PDF
The document discusses different production methods: job, batch, flow/mass, and cellular. It provides a table comparing the main features, essential requirements, main advantages, and main limitations of each method. Job production involves single one-off items. Batch production groups identical products together. Flow/mass production uses continuous flow and specialized equipment for standardized products. Cellular production splits flow into self-contained work units.
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Ib Business Management - 5.2 Production Methods Summary Notes PDF
The document discusses different production methods: job, batch, flow/mass, and cellular. It provides a table comparing the main features, essential requirements, main advantages, and main limitations of each method. Job production involves single one-off items. Batch production groups identical products together. Flow/mass production uses continuous flow and specialized equipment for standardized products. Cellular production splits flow into self-contained work units.
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IB Business Management – Operations Management
5.2 Production Methods – Features of Production Methods
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MAIN FEATURES OF THE DIFFERENT PRODUCTION METHODS
Job Batch Flow/Mass Cellular
Group of Mass Splitting flow
Single one-off Main feature identical production of production into items products pass standardised self-contained through each products groups that are stage responsible for together whole work units
Labour and Specialised, Well-trained and
Highly skilled Essential machines often multi-skilled workforce requirements must be expensive, workforce flexible to capital prepared and switch to equipment - but able to be making can be very flexible and batches of efficient accept a more other designs High steady responsible style demand for of working standardised products
Some There is much
Able to Low unit costs Main economies of autonomy in undertake due to the advantages scale decision making specialist constant Faster Responsibility to projects or working of production meet production jobs, often machines, high with lower unit targets and with high labour costs than job accountability of value added productivity production quality standards High levels of and economies Some flexibility – this can lead to worker of scale in design of motivation IB Business Management – Operations Management 5.2 Production Methods – Features of Production Methods
product in JIT stock high levels of
each batch management motivation easier to apply Specialisation than with other between and methods within teams can lead to high productivity
Inflexible - often Lower output
High unit High levels of Main very difficult than traditional production stocks at each limitations and time mass and flow costs production consuming to production Time stage switch from one methods consuming Unit costs likely type of product Can be capital- Wide range of to be higher to another intensive, with tools and than with flow Expensive to set specialisation equipment production up flow-line needed for each needed machinery and cell each section Capacity needs to be utilisation is lower carefully than mass synchronised production and therefore average fixed costs can be higher