Job production

Job production involves producing a one-off product for a specific customer. Job production is most often associated with small firms (making railings for a specific house, building/repairing a computer for a specific customer, making flower arrangements for a specific wedding etc.) but large firms use job production too. Examples include:
* Designing and implementing an advertising campaign
* Auditing the accounts of a large public limited company
* Building a new factory
* Installing machinery in a factory

Benefits and disadvantages

Key benefits of job production include:
* work is generally of a high quality
* a high level of customisation is possible to meet the customer's exact requirements
* significant flexibility is possible, especially when compared to mass production
* workers can be easily motivated due to the skilled nature of the work they are performing

Disadvantages include:
* higher cost of production
* requires the use of specialist labour (compare with the repetitive, low-skilled jobs in mass production)
* slow compared to other methods (batch production and mass production)

Essential features

There are a number of features that should be implemented in a job production environment, they include:

* Clear definitions of objectives should be set.
* Clearly outlined decision making process.

ee also

*Manufacturing
*Craft production
*Batch production
*Mass production
*Just In Time
*Lean manufacturing
*Production, costs, and pricing