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What you'll learn to do: describe the four main categories of production processes<\/h2>\r\nEven though you may not spend a lot of time thinking about the processes used to make different products, they surround you every day.\u00a0Every time you come in your front door or eat a meal or even drive your car, you interact with things that were made by combinations of job-based, batch, mass, and flow production processes: they were all produced or manufactured by someone, somewhere, and a great deal of thought and planning were needed to make them available.\r\n\r\nBusinesses know what they want to produce, but the challenge is to select\u00a0a process that will maximize\u00a0the productivity and efficiency of production. Senior management looks to their operations managers to inform this decision. As we examine the four major types of production processes, keep in mind that the most successful organizations are those that\u00a0have their process and product aligned.","rendered":"

What you’ll learn to do: describe the four main categories of production processes<\/h2>\n

Even though you may not spend a lot of time thinking about the processes used to make different products, they surround you every day.\u00a0Every time you come in your front door or eat a meal or even drive your car, you interact with things that were made by combinations of job-based, batch, mass, and flow production processes: they were all produced or manufactured by someone, somewhere, and a great deal of thought and planning were needed to make them available.<\/p>\n

Businesses know what they want to produce, but the challenge is to select\u00a0a process that will maximize\u00a0the productivity and efficiency of production. Senior management looks to their operations managers to inform this decision. As we examine the four major types of production processes, keep in mind that the most successful organizations are those that\u00a0have their process and product aligned.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t

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