首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
What is lean production? Perhaps the best way to describe this innovative production system is to contrast it with craft product
What is lean production? Perhaps the best way to describe this innovative production system is to contrast it with craft product
admin
2010-06-30
53
问题
What is lean production? Perhaps the best way to describe this innovative production system is to contrast it with craft production and mass production, the two other methods humans have devised to make things.
The craft producer uses highly skilled workers and simple but flexible tools to make exactly what the consumer asks for — one item at a time. Custom furniture, works of decorative art, and a few exotic cars provide current-day examples. We all love the idea of craft method — as automobiles once were exclusively — cost too much for most of us to afford. So mass production was developed at the beginning of the twentieth century as an alternative.
The mass-producer uses narrowly skilled professionals to design products made by unskilled or semiskilled workers tending expensive, single purpose machines. These churn out standardized products in very high volume. Because the machinery costs so much and it is so intolerant of disruption, the mass-producer adds many buffers -- extra supplies, extra workers, and extra space — to assure smooth production. Because changing over to a new product costs even more, the mass-producer keeps standard designs in production for as long as possible. The result: the consumer gets lower costs but at the expense of variety and by means of work methods that most employees find boring and dispiriting.
The lean producer, by contrast, combines the advantages of craft and mass production, while avoiding the high cost of the former and the rigidity of the latter.
Toward this end, lean producers employ teams of multiskilled workers at levels of the organization and use highly flexible, increasingly automated machines to produce volumes of products in enormous variety.
Lean production is "lean" because it uses less of everything compared with mass production, half the human effort in the factory, half the manufacturing space, half the investment in tools, half the engineering hours to develop a new product in half the time. Also, it requires keeping far less than half the needed inventory on site, results in much fewer defects, and produces a greater and ever growing variety products.
Why mass production was developed as an alternative?
选项
A、Only single purpose machines were needed.
B、It could reduce the cost of production.
C、It produced new products very often.
D、It produced standardized products in high volume.
答案
B
解析
从文章第二段第四行cost too much for most of us to afford可知批量生产的出现主要是为了减少生产的成本。故应选B。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/lgJd777K
本试题收录于:
公共英语四级笔试题库公共英语(PETS)分类
0
公共英语四级笔试
公共英语(PETS)
相关试题推荐
Howpeoplebehave.
Psychologiststakecontrastiveviewsofhowexternalrewards,from【C1】______praisetocoldcash,affectmotivationandcreativit
A、Personswhohavesalariesaccordingtolong-termcontracts.B、Personswhoownbusinesses.C、Personswithold-agepensions.D、P
Withunfamiliarhumanbeings,whenweacknowledgetheirhumanness,wemustavoidstaringatthem,andyetwemustalsoavoidign
A、Morethan150millionpeople.B、Lessthan150millionpeople.C、About100millionpeople.D、About120millionpeople.A
Themostobviouspurposeofadvertisingistoinformtheconsumerofavailableproductsorservices.Thesecond【C1】______isto
Themostobviouspurposeofadvertisingistoinformtheconsumerofavailableproductsorservices.Thesecond【C1】______isto
Themostobviouspurposeofadvertisingistoinformtheconsumerofavailableproductsorservices.Thesecond【C1】______isto
Themostobviouspurposeofadvertisingistoinformtheconsumerofavailableproductsorservices.Thesecond【C1】______isto
Ramoswasbrilliant,handsome,wealthy,andoneofRiodeJaneiro’s(里约热内卢的)beautifulpeople.Atagethirty-six,hewasaprom
随机试题
遣药配伍中体现“通因通用”之法的方剂是
由间隔相等的不连续时点数列求平均发展水平的公式是()
矢量图进行放大后,图像仍能保持原来的清晰度,且色彩不失真。
6层及以下的住宅一般以()为主。
根据《中华人民共和国会计法》的规定,对登记会计账簿不符合规定的单位。县级以上人民政府财政部门责令限期改正,可以对单位并处()。
我国《婚姻法》规定:“现役军人的配偶要求离婚,须得军人同意,但军人一方有重大过错的除外。”这一规定属于下列规则中的()。
1934年颁布的()中规定,班级增设班主任。
看过许多名人访谈,他们无不谈到过去某段时期的迷茫与困惑、低潮与失败。彼时,如果他们向命运低头,他们就是失败者。只有冷静下来,摆正心态,才有______、赢取辉煌的可能。可见,平日的积累与锻炼固然重要,但关键时刻的______与爆发力却能成就一个真正的王者。
A、 B、 C、 B
Herushed(danger)______acrossthestreettocatchthebus.
最新回复
(
0
)