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Understanding Production Systems and Management

The document describes the production system, production management, and the responsibilities of a production manager. A production system refers to the organized elements that interact to transform raw materials into a finished product. Production management is responsible for organizing, planning, controlling, and directing the production process. A production manager is responsible for designing efficient processes, identifying necessary equipment, establishing training programs, and quality and inventory policies.

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Understanding Production Systems and Management

The document describes the production system, production management, and the responsibilities of a production manager. A production system refers to the organized elements that interact to transform raw materials into a finished product. Production management is responsible for organizing, planning, controlling, and directing the production process. A production manager is responsible for designing efficient processes, identifying necessary equipment, establishing training programs, and quality and inventory policies.

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Production system

It is the way in which the productive factors are used and combined to carry out their transformation and subsequently
convert them into goods and services.
Thus, when we talk about a production system, we refer to a set of interrelated parts designed to achieve
achieve the goal of successfully completing the production process.
The production system refers to a series of organized, related elements that interact with each other, and
that range from machines, people, materials, and even to the procedures and the style of the
administration.
All those related components make the raw materials and the information involved in the process be
transformed and became a finished product or service, with a quality, cost, and time result
The production system is the system that provides a structure that streamlines the description, execution, and
formulation of an industrial process. Operations managers make decisions related to the
operations function and the transformation systems used in the company. Similarly, the systems
Production has the capacity to involve the daily activities and tasks of resource acquisition and consumption.
These are systems that first-line managers use given their relevance as a decision-making factor.
business. The analysis of the system allows one to become more efficiently familiarized with the conditions in which one
find the company in reference to the production system that is applied.
Administration
It is the process that seeks, through planning, organization, execution, and control of resources, to give them a use.
more efficient to achieve the goals of an institution. For the management to achieve its objectives, it needs to
It is necessary to make coordinated use of human, intellectual, material, technological, and financial resources.
that are possessed. This, seeking stability, maintenance, and growth of social groups or of the
institutions. The key person in management is the manager.
Production management
It is the management responsible for organizing, planning, controlling, and directing the productive process of a company.
It will depend on the efficiency of the production process of goods and services, given that its decisions influence the
machinery, work equipment, tools, management of raw materials and other factors that affect the
production.
To understand production management, it is necessary first to know what the objective of production is; All
commercial companies have the basic function of providing products or services and management is the
In charge of planning, organizing, directing, and controlling the activities necessary to provide these products and
services; thus we conclude that the main objective of production is to meet the needs of the population, whether with goods
or services obtaining through these a profit or gain for the company
Functions of Administration
These functions are the basic activities that any administrator must perform to fulfill any
result determined by the organizations. These functions that constitute the administrative process are:
Planning: It is the procedure used to determine the objectives and goals for future performance.
organization, as well as the resources and activities that must be carried out to achieve them.
Organization: It is the process where tasks are assigned, activities are grouped, and resources are allocated.
operate each of the dependencies.
Direction: It is those skills of influencing others to perform tasks in such a way that goals can be achieved.
the objectives. This function includes leading, motivating, and persuading the members of the organization.
Control: It is the function responsible for comparing actual performance with the objectives set in advance.
planes.

Responsibility of a production manager


A production manager has different responsibilities in a company, such as definition of a manager.
The production manager is responsible for organizing, planning, controlling, and directing the production process of a company.

Within this is the product design, after knowing the needs to be addressed by the consumer it has as
responsibility to design a product that meets all the presented characteristics.
At the same time, it creates an efficient workflow process, so production maintains a constant flow, as do the processes.
to be carried out within the production, divided into phases or stages that facilitate said production.

Identify the necessary equipment for the execution of the production process, including what are
teams, their knowledge must be such that they know what type of equipment they will need. They also carry out machinery changes.
if they do not meet the efficiency of production.
The training programs, a responsibility also of the production manager, the company needs
employees who know how to use the equipment and machinery; that's why the manager establishes training programs
Training of employees in different areas of work, distribution, shipping, as well as first aid programs
assistance, and accident drills.
Locate and secure the raw material to be used in the designed product; this raw material must meet the standards.
of the quality of said company and being compatible with the machinery that is found in the company.
The selection of plant layout is a necessary part of the company, the manager must, as it is well said
select the spaces to be used within the company and locate the production processes in them, the area of
storage and movement of raw materials and additional materials, location of equipment and lines of
production, administration, service area for personnel, among others.
Quality policies, establishes quality policies, that is to say, quality standards of the final product, but also with the
production processes, each one complying correctly according to the area where it is located.
It controls production, as well as the verification that the product meets a quality standard.
Establish inventory policies; they prevent unnecessary use of raw materials and reduce losses from damage.
and minimizes storage costs. This is if the company pays any type of rent for a warehouse. It ensures
also that the company has product availability in its stock, in order to meet the needs of its customers.
Relationship of Production Management
Quality control: Production management not only designs the product but also identifies the necessary equipment for
that production, but has the responsibility of ensuring the quality of the product, for this reason the manager
create a product testing area to determine if it meets the previously established quality standards.
Maintenance: The equipment that the company needs is not always replaced but rather transferred to an area of
reconditioning or repair, the administrator must be attentive to the possible failures of such equipment, in order to pass them
to a maintenance area. In case the company does not have a maintenance area, the administrator must
contact another company that is in charge of these maintenance tasks.

Production: The very name of the position identifies its role, the production in the main area of the administrator.
production. Its relationship with this process is fundamental for the correct functioning of the different areas that
depend on this, which are already previously defined.
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inventory, its valuation, among other aspects.

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