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What is the Need for Standard Operations?

It  happens that the most important elements in the daily activity of manufacturing begin with the letter “M.” In factories, we are trying to find the best possible combination of Men, Materials, Methods, Measurements, and Machines, so that we can make the best products while spending less cost. Standard operations can be defined as an effective mode of workers, materials, and machines for the sake of making high-quality products at low cost, quickly, and safely.

Standard operations comprise the backbone of JIT(Just in Time) production. Many people make assumptions that standard operations are nothing more than standard operating procedures (SOP’s). But this is not True, Standard operating procedures have to do with specific standards for individual operations in the line and are just part of what we mean by standard operations. Standard operations involve the participation of individual operations in a specific order to achieve an effective combination for manufacturing products.

Another name for standard operations would be “Standard Work Instructions. Let us suppose that we have asked some manufacturers to do some manufacturing for us for a particular product. The person probably asks such questions as: “How do you manufacture these products? How much time and cost does it take to make them? and When will you deliver them? Why does the other manufacturer need to know all these things every time? Because they need to set the work we have asked them to do into their current production schedule