Production Methods & Kaizen

1. Production Methods & Kaizen

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3. Production Methods

6. Production Methods Title: Day Labourer Harvest Sugar Canes Copyright: Getty Images, available from Education Image Gallery Whilst all output can be classed as production, different production methods may be more appropriate for different products or services. Agriculture tends to be very land intensive – efficiency could be measured in terms of output per acre/hectare

7. Production Methods Title: TV Factory 1954 Copyright: Getty Images, available from Education Image Gallery (http://edina.ac.uk/eig/) As technology and analysis of production methodology has improved, methods have changed dramatically – what used to be labour intensive production methods are now capital intensive Title: Electronic Factory Copyright: Getty Images, available from Education Image Gallery (http://edina.ac.uk/eig/)

9. Production Decisions Which method? Type of Product One-Off Order? Mass Market product? Batch? Market size and Segment Factor Costs – Land, Labour and Capital Complexity of design

11. Production Methods Which is more efficient? Operation 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Finished Product This?

12. Production Methods Operation 1 1a 1b 1c 1d 2a 2b 2c 3a 3b 3c 3d 4 Finished product Or this?

13. Production Methods Or this? Cell 1 Cell 2 Cell 3 Finished Product Finished Product Finished Product

15. Kaizen (Continuous Improvement)

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21. Production Methods

23. Kaizen (Continuous Improvement)