Production methods
Job production
Involves customizing
an individual product
from start to finish,
tailor made to meet
the specific
requirements of the
client. Typically,
these products are
one-off, unique items
such as an office
building, a wedding
dress, a Hollywood
movie, music
composition, private
dance lesson or a
haircut.
Bibliography
Hoang, P. (2014). Business Management. En P. Hoang, Business Management (págs. 1-12). Victoria.
Batch production Mass production
Is the manufacturing
of large amounts of a
standardized product.
Involves
It often involves the
simultaneously
assembly of
producing a limited
individual
number of identical
components, with
products (known as a
parts (components)
batch). Work on each
bought from other
batch is fully
companies. It tends
completed before
to be capital-
production switches
intensive with many
to another batch
tasks relying on
using the same staff
automation.
and machinery.
Therefore unit costs
of production are
relatively low.
Flow production Cellular manufacturing
Focuses on a
continuous
production process of
Is a modern
manufacturing adaptation of
products that are assembly line
standardized (or production whereby
homogeneous) in
sets of tasks are
large quantities, e.g.
completed by teams
printing millions of
(or cells') by splitting
identical copies of a
the production
particular daily
process into a
newspaper on a
number of self-
production line. Flow
contained units. Each
production differs
cell, with its
from mass
specialized grouping
production in that
of machines,
production occurs on materials and
a much larger scale, manpower, is given
with production responsibility for
assembly lines often completing a part of
kept running 24 the overall
hours a day, seven production process.
days a week to
maximise output and
to eliminate waste

The importance of operations
management
Operations management has an
important role in ensuring
sustainability by creating a
balance between the ecological,
social and economic needs of
people today and those of future
generations.
This might include the use of
green technologies and recycling.
The role of operations management
Ecological sustainability
Refers to the capacity of the
natural environment to meet the
needs of the current generation
without jeopardising the ability of
future generations to meet their
needs.
Ecological sustainability requires
efficient and sensible use of the
world's scarce resources so that
they do not become exhausted or
over polluted.
Social sustainability and Economic
sustainability
The social aspect of sustainability
examines social interactions and
structures that are necessary for
sustainable development, i.e. it is
the ability of the society to
develop in such a way that it
meets the social wellbeing needs
of the current and future
generations.
Social sustainability enables
society to optimize the quality of
life for people and their
descendants.
Economic sustainability refers to
development that meets the
economic needs of the present
generation using existing available
resources without compromising
the ability of future generations to
meet their needs.