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Job production
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Job production involves producing a one-off product for a specific customer. Job production is most often associated with small firms (making railings for a specific house, building/repairing a computer for a specific customer, making flower arrangements for a specific wedding etc.) but large firms use job production too. Examples include:
- Designing and implementing an advertising campaign
- Auditing the accounts of a large public limited company
- Building a new factory
- Installing machinery in a factory
Key benefits of job production include:
- work is generally of a high quality
- a high level of customisation is possible to meet the customer's exact requirements
- significant flexibility is possible, especially when compared to mass production
- workers can be easily motivated due to the skilled nature of the work they are performing
Disadvantages include:
- higher cost of production
- requires the use of specialist labour (compare with the repetitive, low-skilled jobs in mass production
- slow compared to other methods (batch production and mass production)
There are a number of features that should be implemented in a job production environment, they include:
- Clear definitions of objectives should be set.
- Clearly outlined decision making process.
- Manufacturing
- Craft production
- Batch production
- Mass production
- Just In Time
- Lean manufacturing
- Production, costs, and pricing
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