Technology

• Technology helps produce:

  • high and consistent quality standards
  • help cost efficiency
• Automation can help achieve successful production and increase productivity
• Productivity and Cost Efficiency:

  • Factory workers used on production lines, with managers trying to increase efficiency and productivity in the UK
  • Japanese companies look at the whole business: waste materials, time, energy and rejected products
• Impact on Production:

  • Productivity - mechanising production process means a business can produce products 24/7 with no pay - increases productivity and means a low cost per unit
  • Quality - tech can make large quantities of the same thing, ensuring consistent standards of quality
  • Flexibility - important to quality and the delivery of the product
  • Automation - where flexibility in delivery is lowered