Theoretical Foundations of Efficiently Organizing Production Processes: Using the Example of Combining Organizational Forms of Component Manufacture and Internal Transport
Table 2
Specific features of different process types.
Features
Process type 1
Process type 2
Process type 3
Process type 4
Number of components per lot
Small
Small
High
Very high
Variant diversity
High
Relatively high
Relatively small
Small
Customer reference
Customer individual
Customer individualized
Customer anonymous
Customer anonymous
Technological resemblance of components
High
High
High
Identical components
Constructive resemblance of components
Restrictive
Restrictive
High
Identical components
Needed manufacturing methods
Variety of different manufacturing methods
Limited number of different manufacturing methods
Mostly all identical manufacturing methods
Identical manufacturing methods
Direction of production flow
Varying
Varying
Identical
Identical
Technological processing sequence
Varying
Varying
Identical with skipping
Identical without skipping
Capacity requirement of components per working cycle
Extremely fluctuating
Fluctuating
Extensively constant
Constant
Capacity utilization
Extremely fluctuating
Fluctuating
Extensively consistently high
Consistently high
Flexibility/continuity
Demand for flexibility first, then demand for continuity
Demand for flexibility first, then demand for continuity
Demand for continuity first, then demand for flexibility
Demand for continuity first, then demand for flexibility
