Production management principles and practices

Production Management

The organization that we are talking about is a manufacturer of engineering products, and the major part of the work seems to be assembling different items into a final product. The function concerned is called in management terms as production management. The most important part of the capacity of a production manager is the ability to balance risks and costs. The duty of the production manager is to keep a track of the involved costs on a regular basis. (Production Management) In this relevant case we have to prepare the job schedules in a detailed manner and for that purpose nowadays there are many different varieties of computer programs which are being available for use. Yet even before finally deciding upon which program or method need to be utilized for the purpose, one has to study about the entire procedure in a most detailed manner.

Of the many systems that are suitable to the situation described, what is most important to know is that results may be different through the use of different systems. The concerned matter is the flow of goods and the flow of goods can be considered in two ways - either that the goods are being forced ahead through production in one process to the next process. In this method, production is planned in a manner through which produced goods are prepared at one level and then pushed ahead to the next production process whether the next process needs the goods or not. (Manufacturing in the New Millennium)

Let us understand this further by taking the case of the finished power platforms and these will be prepared and will be sent on to the next proceeding stage, even if whether they are needed over there or not. The case is in similarity with the next proceeding process of attaching wheels and handles and further they will receive the goods from just the previous section and then further push it on to the next stage. The third stage is in relation to the installation of the motor, and then after that the installation of the controls and lastly the final stage is with regard to testing. This is all fine in theory and one would say that the organization will have only the correct absolute number of the employees present in each stage so that there is no excess stock is built up anywhere. In the case of production, it could be said that there is no guarantee that the demand would be at constant levels, or that workers will all be regular and would work at the same continued speed. In some of the cases, the workers may not come for performing duty and their absence from work duties may lead to a building up of stocks at some point in the line, or would result in a production level that cannot be sold.