The Meaning Of Production:
Overview
Production is where a business actually creates the value it sells: raw materials, labour, machines and ideas go in, and finished goods and services come out. How well a firm manages that transformation decides whether it makes a healthy profit or quietly bleeds money on waste.
In this lesson you will learn the difference between production and productivity, how to raise efficiency, why firms hold inventories, and the powerful idea of lean production with its tools of just-in-time and Kaizen. You will be able to calculate productivity and judge how a firm could produce more from the same resources.
Objectives
- Managing resources effectively to produce goods and services
- Difference between production and productivity
- Benefits of increasing efficiency and how to increase it, e.g. increasing productivity by automation and technology, improved labour skills
- Why businesses hold inventories
- The concept of lean production: how to achieve it, e.g. just-in-time inventory control and Kaizen; benefits of lean production
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- Productivity is best described as: A. the total output of a firm B. output per worker in a given time C. the number of workers employed D. the cost of raw materials Answer: B
- A factory of 10 workers makes 2000 units a week. Labour productivity is: A. 20 units per worker B. 200 units per worker C. 2000 units per worker D. 20000 units per worker Answer: B
- Just-in-time inventory control means: A. holding large buffer stocks B. materials arrive only as they are needed C. producing for stock in advance D. never using suppliers Answer: B
- Kaizen refers to: A. one large change to production B. continuous small improvements by employees C. holding more inventory D. raising prices gradually Answer: B
- A firm doubles output by doubling its workforce, each making the same as before. Its productivity has: A. doubled B. halved C. stayed the same D. fallen to zero Answer: C
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