Unit 13

UNIT 13

Productivity

Assembly: the process of putting the parts of a product together in manufacturing. Method of making goods, especially cars, in a factory. The product moves along a line of machines or workers, each adding a different part or doing a different job.

Capacity: the amount of something that a factory can produce.

Component: one part used in making a machine, vehicle, etc.

Delivery: the act or process of bringing goods to the place or person who was ordered them.

Efficiency: * how well an industrial process, factory or business works so that it produces as much as possible from the time, money and resources that are put into it. * How well and quickly a person works.

Just-in-time: written abbreviation. If goods are produced or bought using a just-in-time system, they are delivered just before they are needed, which reduces the cost to the company of keeping goods for long periods of time.

Production: the process of making or growing things to be sold as products, usually in large quantities.

Productivity: the relationship between the amount of goods that a factory produces and the resources needed to produce them.

Resource: this can include the money, buildings, machinery, materials, skills and workforce that a company has available.

Stock, stocks: a supply of a raw materials or parts that have been produced and are kept to be used when needed in manufacturing, or a supply of finished goods that are kept before being sold.

Supply: to provide goods or services to customers, especially regularly over a long period of time.

Waste: to use more of something, especially time or money, than you need to, or to use it in a way that is not economical.