Stickley Furniture (Operations Tour) 1. Which type of production processing-job shop, batch, repetitive, or continuous-is the primary mode of operation at Stickley Furniture? Why? What other type of processing is used to a lesser extent?
Production process has a significant effect on the way production of goods and services will be organized. It is important part of operation management, which determines the right process strategy for the transformation of a certain range set of inputs in order to produce the desired outputs. In the case study of Stickley Furniture the primary mode of operation is continuous production processing. This production process mainly specializes in manufacturing or processing various parts to come up with final standardized output, when it is desired (Stevenson, 2015).
Stickley Furniture has many reasons to why continuous production process is used in their facilities. The first major factor is a quality of their product which starts form sawing operation. The process starts with inspection of lumber by the workers, who then feed the lumber in to the machine, where the computer system scans it and determines optimal an efficient way to cut the lumber in to specified pieces, and by avoiding knots and other defects. The next step after producing boards is to build and assemble various types of quality furniture in line with the client’s orders. As the result, of all of this order of operations, it indicates support for most commonly use of the continuous production process at Stickley Furniture (Stevenson, 2015).
At Stickley Furniture facility also, include other types of production processing. For example job shop and batch production are integrated within its system, but to a lesser extent. The involvement of job shop processing is low, due to the specifications of furniture and other product variations. The batch processing mode of