Productive unit
A production unit is in the production business of the smallest unit production system that still can be productively employed. These are usually combinations of people, material and machines. From the point of view of business administration, it is indeed the smallest unit, but engineers and ergonomists refer to productive units as work systems and break them down into further parts.
According to REFA , a work system is described by the following seven system elements:
- work task
- workflow
- input
- output
- human
- Equipment and work equipment
- Environmental influences
Individual evidence
- ^ Dyckhoff: Grundzüge der Produktionswirtschaft., 1995, p. 344