Intro to Business › Section J · Operations management › Topic J.2
The production process
A bakery that makes one wedding cake at a time and a plant that bakes a million identical loaves a week face the same basic question: how should the work flow? The answer depends on volume and variety, and it decides costs, flexibility and how much the operation can produce.
In this topic
- Choosing a production process
- Mass production, mass customisation, customisation
- Job, batch and flow
- Converting inputs: process and assembly
- Continuous and intermittent processes
- Capacity and the bottleneck
- Worked example: finding the bottleneck
- Worked example: matching process to product
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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