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Batch Production: Examples, Advantages and Disadvantages

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Manufacturers have a handful of processes they use to make their products. There are five types of manufacturing processes: repetitive, discrete, job shop, continuous process and batch process manufacturing. First, we’ll define batch production and list examples of industries that use it to manufacture their products.

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How to Solve the 5 Top Challenges of Manufacturing Projects

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When you work through manufacturing projects, you face some unique challenges, often with a lot at stake. In some cases, the entire project might be following a process where design, scope, cost, and time scales were fixed at the very beginning. This happens because expectations aren’t set early in the project.

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Kanban vs. Scrum: What’s the Difference?

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So for the sake of argument, let’s compare them head to head, and may the best project management methodology win! Kanban is from Japan, originating in the factories of the Toyota car company in the 60s as a lean manufacturing tool for workflow and inventory management. What Is Kanban? Get started for free today.

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What Are Construction Submittals and Why Are They So Important?

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Product Data Submittals This details the information supplied by the manufacturer of the product. There are various people involved in this process, from the project owner, architect and engineer to the contractor, suppliers, manufacturers and testing agency.

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How to Solve the 5 Top Challenges of Manufacturing Projects

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When you work on a manufacturing project , you face some unique challenges, often with a lot at stake. Here, we’re going to look at some of the challenges specific to project teams working in the manufacturing industry—and how to solve these problems using project management practices and a dynamic tool.

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10 Free Marketing Templates for Excel, Word and More

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Marketing, advertising and design projects require project briefs just as construction, manufacturing or engineering projects do. Only they’re not called project briefs, they’re called creative briefs. If you’re managing one of these projects, then you need our free creative brief template for Word.

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Project Selection: Use These 8 Selection Methods for Better Strategic Results

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While there are many measurement methods, such as Six Sigma and constrained optimization, these project selection methods are the most widely used: 1. Cost-benefit analysis is used to estimate the costs and benefits associated with a particular project. This method is used when evaluating two projects. Linear Programming.