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Calculating Production Costs What a unit actually costs.WHAT TO SEPARATEVariable costs: materials, packaging, direct labour... Growing a Manufacturing Business More capacity and more products.WHAT CONSTRAINS GROWTHDemand Capacity at the bottleneck Working... Handling Product Recalls and Complaints When product in the market is wrong.WHAT TRIGGERS A RECALLA safety problem A quality failure... Improving Manufacturing Performance Getting more from what you have.WHAT TO MEASUREOutput against capacity Downtime by cause Yield... Maintaining Production Equipment Machines the business depends on.WHY IT MATTERSDowntime stops output while every fixed cost... Managing Environmental Obligations What production releases.WHAT FACTORIES PRODUCESolid waste Liquid effluent Emissions to air... Managing Factory Safety Where people are seriously hurt.WHY IT MATTERS ABOVE EVERYTHINGFactories injure and kill people,... Managing Finished Goods and Despatch Product after production.WHAT TO ESTABLISHHow finished product is identified, stored and... Managing Manufacturing Cash Flow Money through production.WHAT THE PATTERN ISMaterials, labour and power paid before the product... Managing Power and Utilities in Production What the factory runs on.WHY IT DESERVES SEPARATE ATTENTIONManufacturing is power-intensive, and... Managing Production Processes How things are actually made.WHAT TO DOCUMENTThe process, step by step Settings and parameters... Managing Production Quality Making it right.WHAT TO ESTABLISHThe specification the product must meet.WHY FIRSTQuality cannot... Managing Production Scheduling Deciding what to make and when.WHAT SCHEDULING MUST BALANCEOrders and their dates Capacity... Managing Production Staff People who make the product.WHAT ROLES TYPICALLY EXISTMachine operators Assembly and handling... Managing Production Waste and Yield Getting more output from the same input.WHAT YIELD MEASURESOutput as a proportion of input.WHY IT... Managing Raw Materials Inputs into production.WHAT TO ESTABLISH FOR EVERY INPUTSpecification required Acceptable... Manufacturing and Production Operations: Everything That Matters, Briefly The whole category in one page.CAPACITY WITHOUT DEMAND IS THE MOST EXPENSIVE MISTAKE IN... Planning Production Capacity How much you can make.WHAT CAPACITY MEANSOutput achievable in a period, given equipment, people... Selling Manufactured Products Finding buyers.WHAT CHANNELS EXISTDirect to retailers Through distributors To other... Understanding Manufacturing Compliance Rules that apply to production.WHAT TYPICALLY APPLIESBusiness registration Premises and zoning... Understanding the Manufacturing Business What kind of operation you are running.WHAT MANUFACTURING ISConverting inputs into products of...

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