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

[edit] Benefits and disadvantages

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)

[edit] Essential features

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.

[edit] See also

• Manufacturing
• Craft production
• Batch production
• Mass production
• Just In Time
• Lean manufacturing
• Production, costs, and pricing