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Production System
Production System
A manufacturing company has a wide variety of production forms depending on its size or its kind of business, e.g. ranging from the one where a product like a big motor or ship is customized according to each customer, to the one where limited types of items like home electric appliances are mass-produced. Today, however, the companies are required to have the production form where they can response flexibly and rapidly to the changes in sales, as customers' needs have diversified and demands for quick-delivery production have increased. Such movement shows the production form now depends on each company's way to produce, or concept of production system rather than its size or its kind of business. The production system has various names in terms of the standpoint, and the representatives are as follows:
A manufacturing company has a wide variety of production forms depending on its size or its kind of business, e.g. ranging from the one where a product like a big motor or ship is customized according to each customer, to the one where limited types of items like home electric appliances are mass-produced. Today, however, the companies are required to have the production form where they can response flexibly and rapidly to the changes in sales, as customers' needs have diversified and demands for quick-delivery production have increased. Such movement shows the production form now depends on each company's way to produce, or concept of production system rather than its size or its kind of business. The production system has various names in terms of the standpoint, and the representatives are as follows:
Reference：JIT Business Research Mr. Hirano Hiroyuki