Part of a series of articles on Industry Manufacturing methods; Batch production, Continuous production, Job production Improvement methods; LM, TPM, QRM, TOC, Six Sigma, RCM Information & communication; ISA-88, ISA-95, ERP, SAP, IEC 62264, B2MML Process control; PLC, DCS

Job production involves producing a one-off product for a specific customer. For other uses of this term see Industry (disambiguation An industry (from Latin industrius, "diligent industrious" The primary characteristic of batch production is that all components are completed at a workstation before they move to the next one Continuous production is a method used to manufacture, produce or process materials without interruption Lean manufacturing or lean production, which is often known simply as " Lean " is the practice of a theory of production that considers the expenditure Total Productive Maintenance is a new way of looking at maintenance or conversely a reversion to old ways but on a mass scale Theory of Constraints (TOC is an overall Management philosophy. Six Sigma is a Business management strategy originally developed by Motorola, that today enjoys wide-spread application in many sectors of industry Reliability-Centered Maintenance, often known as RCM, is an industrial improvement approach focused on identifying and establishing the operational maintenance and capital S88, shorthand for ANSI/ISA-88, is a standard addressing batch process control ANSI/ISA-95, or ISA-95 as it is more commonly referred is an International standard for developing an automated interface between enterprise and control systems Enterprise resource planning ( ERP) is the planning of how business resources (materials employees customers etc SAP R/3 is the former name of the main Enterprise resource planning software produced by SAP AG. IEC 62264 is a International standard for Enterprise-control system integration B2MML or Business To Manufacturing Markup Language is an XML implementation of the ANSI/ ISA -95 family of standards ( ISA-95) known internationally A programmable logic controller ( PLC) or programmable controller is a Digital computer used for Automation of industrial processes such as A distributed control system (DCS refers to a Control system usually of a Manufacturing system, Process or any kind of Dynamic system, 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

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)

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. A Public Limited Company ( PLC, plc or plc or p l c is a type of Limited company in the United Kingdom or the Republic of Ireland which is Mass production (also called flow production, repetitive flow production, series production, or serial production) is the production of Mass production (also called flow production, repetitive flow production, series production, or serial production) is the production of The primary characteristic of batch production is that all components are completed at a workstation before they move to the next one Mass production (also called flow production, repetitive flow production, series production, or serial production) is the production of
• Clearly outlined decision making process.

See also

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

Manufacturing (from Latin manu factura, "making by hand" is the use of tools and labor to make things for use or sale Craft production (or One-off Production is the process of manufacturing by hand with or without the aid of tools The primary characteristic of batch production is that all components are completed at a workstation before they move to the next one Mass production (also called flow production, repetitive flow production, series production, or serial production) is the production of Just-in-time ( JIT) is an inventory strategy implemented to improve the Return on investment of a Business by reducing in-process Inventory and Lean manufacturing or lean production, which is often known simply as " Lean " is the practice of a theory of production that considers the expenditure

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