Efficiency of the Production Operation

Efficiency of the production operation

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Introduction

This paper is going to discuss on the production of a product that is very expensive to be produced. The product selected therefore, is a weekly newspaper. It is expensive to produce this product due to the fact that it requires a number of operations, which will be highlighted in this paper. Among the things to be considered in this paper are the expected layout of the facility in charge of the production process, the factor that determines whether one product is complete and hence the need to move to the next unit. Besides, the paper will highlight on the way the production efficiency can be calculated. The ways for making the product production more efficient will also be recommended.

Process Layout

Starting with the layout of the facility producing the product, it is important to note that the production of a newspaper brings together a number of operations, which are supposed to be captured or considered in the layout of the producing facility. These operations include the editorial operations, photography and graphic operations, advertising operations, business operations and production operations. The editorial operations in this case include such things as the creation, acquisition and preparation of the newspaper’s non-advertising content. This content includes news, features, business, sports, comic portions, opinion pages and editorials. This is done through the creation of original content or buying material from news syndicates. For a larger newspaper, the greater amount of non-advertising content comes from the staff of the newspaper. This includes the non-news items and features (Cooke, 2012).

Photography and graphics operations affect both advertising and editorial sections. They are operations, which serve both features and news needs of the newspaper. The operations also offer photo services required for ads...