Amazon, Texas Instruments and Nissan- Comparison of Production

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Amazon, Texas Instruments and Nissan Comparison of Production

Q: Compare and contrast Amazon, Texas Instruments and a car manufacturer of your choice. Focus on production.

Amazon is mostly labour intensive, with manual work for such as collecting and packaging items. Texas Instruments (TI), on the other hand is predominately capital intensive, with lots of machinery needed to produce the products, and as little as just 4 employees needed in the later stages of processing the chips. Nissan has a more balanced mix of of both capital intensive and labour intensive, an example of this would be on the assembly line, where both robotics and manual labour and both reliant on eachother.

        The cleanliness of the overall working facilities also has a factor in the production process. The level of cleanliness at Amazon is not that high and is the lowest standard of the three. Dust appears in places such as the warehouse, although subsequently there is no effect on production. The levels at TI need to be at a high standard, as one particle can kill a whole chip, so extra precautions are taken out. A good standard of cleanliness helps at Nissan, specifically in areas the paint plant, a moderate level of cleanliness is required.

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        The quality of the products and the actual product are also a determining factors of production. A reasonable quality level is required at Amazon for the packaging of products, however there are no extra checks. Amazon produce no specific item as such, they package goods that have been ordered. Extensive quality control checks are made in TI, to check the Quality of the products on the chips they produce. Nissan go one stage further, and prioritise customer satisfaction in their Total Quality Management system, to help make sure all their cars are to a good standard for their customers.

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