The document discusses different types of production processes: craft production, mass production, and lean production. It analyzes factors like the use of technology, employee motivation strategies, quality of raw materials, focus on customization vs. cost reduction, opportunities for employee input, inventory management timelines, and how employee work is justified. The conclusion compares the production types, finding that craft production relies less on technology, uses non-financial motivation, focuses more on quality and customization, and listens more to employee suggestions than mass or lean production.

1. Production Process & Operation Management, Factors
Affects on Production Process

2. Production is a set of general principles for production economies, facility
design, job design, schedule design, quality control, inventory control work
study and cost budgeting control. It is evident from the above definitions that
production planning and its control are the main characteristics of production
What is Production?

3. Operation Function:
The operation function of an organization is the part that produces the organization’s products. The
product may be physical goods or services. This function performs several activities to ‘transform’
a set of inputs into a useful output using a conversion process. The conversion process is the
process of changing inputs of labor, materials, capital and management into outputs of goods and
services.
Production Process types:
Production
Mass production
Craft production
Lean production

5. Using Technology
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Craft
Production
Mass
Production
Lean
Production
Agree
Strongly agree
Disagree
Strongly disagree
neutral

6. Improving Employee Motivation
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Craft
production
Mass
Production
Lean
Production
Financial
Nonfinancial

7. Quality of raw material is depend on
product price
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Craft Production Mass Production Lean Production
Agree
strongly
agree
Disagree
strongly
disagree
Neutral

8. Utilization Capital
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Craft
Production
Mass
Production
Lean
Production
Yes
No

9. Main point of production
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Craft
Production
Mass
Production
Lean
Production
Quality
management
Cost reduction
Customization

10. Opportunity to employee to give any
suggestion to the organization
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Craft
Production
Mass
Production
Lean
Production
Agree
strongly agree
Disagree
strongly disagree
Neutral

11. Inventory management
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Craft Production Mass Production Lean Production
For 1 week
For 1 month
Half year
1 year

12. Justify employee work
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Craft ProductionMass Production Lean Production
Experience
Working activity
Knologe about the work
Selected level wise

13. Conclusion:
 Craft business doesn’t trust in latest technology. Lean and mass use
latest technology in their production process.
 Traditional craft business use non financial motivation for
employee. Lean and mass use financial motivation to employee.
 Quality matter on raw material in craft production. But not in lean
and mass its depends on less.
 Craft production focus on customization most. Lean and mass
focus on cost reduce.
 Craft production listen employees suggestion. Lean and mass do
less in taking suggestion from employee.