This document serves as an extensive guide to understanding and implementing production function principles within any business framework. It meticulously delves into the intricacies of production planning, control, safety management, and quality assurance, providing a comprehensive overview for re...
Systems: an orderly arrangement of parts to achieve a specific outcome. Production
planning: the plan that is used in the production process that will decrease cost and time
and increase output.
Production control: the managing of each individual task and action in the production
process to ensure the best result.
Routing: the process to determine the best and cheapest sequence of operations.
Scheduling: the process to work out the time required to perform each production task.
Loading: the process to assign work to workers and machines. Dispatching: converts the
planning into action with instructions for the movement of material, tools, and equipment,
checking of time and flow of work, and supervising the process.
Following-up: the process whereby the business makes sure the scheduling and
production systems are running according to plan.
Inspection: involves checking the quality of the process and the final product.
Corrective action: involves any adjustments to the planning process. Safety management:
includes all the safety precautions that are essential to ensure safety in the workplace.
Occupational Health and Safety Act: outlines the health and safety roles and
responsibilities of all the stakeholders involved.
Quality control: includes the inspection of the final product to ensure that it meets the
required standards.
Quality management systems: a framework that businesses use to manage all key
processes, and to ensure that they meet the correct standards.
SABS: the South African Bureau of Standards, a body that promotes and maintains
standards in South Africa.
Role of Production function
↳ involves the process by which raw materials are transformed into finished goods of
high quality to meet the demands of customers
• To ensure process is efficient + effective → businesses need a good production
management system
System
↳ is an orderly arrangement of parts to achieve a specific outcome → B must decide
, which production system will best suit needs
• Criteria: the product variety + the volume of products that must be produced + the
machinery and equipment used
Types of Production Management Systems
Mass production
↳ production of large amounts of standardised products in a constant flow
↳ also known as flow or continuous production
Characteristics
• Large amounts of standardised products will flow through the system
• Products are identical and go through the same process
• Products move on an assembly line or production line to the next station
• Each worker is trained to do a specific job and specialises in that job
• Equipment + machinery used = highly specialised and expensive
• Mass production = fast + reduces costs
• Unit cost of the products = cheaper
• Mass production process = inflexible + can’t accommodate new products
• Quality of products = same = quality control can be planned + carefully executed
Advantages of mass production
• production = quicker → turnaround time faster
• unit cost of products = cheaper → final price of products = reduced
• Quality = standardised → easier to do quality control
• Workers = specialised → easier to train them for the job
• Work = continuously done → shifts and operators
Disadvantages of mass production
• Expensive to set up a factory + buy specialised machinery
• Mass production = inflexible + does not allow for unique products
• 1 Machine break = production process is stopped
• Workers can get bored → process is repetitive
• Equipment often requires specialised operators = need higher salaries
Batch production
↳ products go through a process in groups + are completed from beginning to the end
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