Just in Time vs. Warehouse Manufacturing

 

 

 

A just in time manufacturing system is a system where once the level of stock is getting very low, it will re order more stock to make sure there is enough for when the stock is actually all gone. Businesses using Just in Time manufacturing system will need to have quite a close relationship with its suppliers, because they need them to be reliable and always getting their supplies to them just in time for when they want it.

An advantage of using a Just in Time system is that you can save storage space and money because you won’t need to have large places for keeping the stock as you only order it when you have a small amount and just before you need it. Another advantage of a JIT system is that you are using the stock quite quickly so there is no need to worry about it perishing or becoming out of date. If the change in demand suddenly occurs or trends change, the business can easily change their products or get in new stock to meet this change, they won’t need to use up loads of old stock.

A disadvantage of JIT is if you suddenly get larger orders of products, you would need to wait until you get more supplies before you can complete the orders as you have no back up stock for spares.

Stockpile Warehouse manufacturing is the opposite of Just in Time manufacturing. This is where the business has large supplies of stock kept in large storage spaces, like warehouses. This is good because they have enough stock to complete all their tasks, especially if they suddenly get higher demands. This is where stockpile warehouse is better than the Just in Time system. Another advantage of warehouse manufacturing is you could possibly look around to get the best suppliers, which could save you money as you don’t need to have as much of a relationship with them as you would with JIT manufacturing.

A disadvantage with stockpile warehouse manufacturing is that you would need to have large storage spaces for storing all the stock. This could cost the business quite a lot of money from the rent.

 

 

Copyright, Copyleft & Creative Commons

Copyright

The Copyright Act originally started in the UK and the most up-to-date copyright act was passed in 1988.

With the Copyright Law it gives the creators of work the rights to control what is happening with their files. They are able to control the publishing, copying, adapting, issuing, renting and lending their work between other members of the public.

The copyright Act is most commonly used in creative and media files. This includes written work, drama pieces, music, artwork, sound recordings and films.

The length of the copyright licence depends on many factors including what type of work it is, whether it was published, and whether it was created by an individual or a group of people. The copyright act usually is effective for the whole of the creator’s life and then 50 – 70 more years after their death.

• Literary, Drama, Music and Artwork: copyright is effective for 70 years after the last creator dies.
• Sound recordings and broadcasts: copyright is effective for 50 years after it was created or released.
• Films: copyright is effective for 70 years after the last principal director, author or composer dies. If the creator is unknown then it is 70 years from the creation or from when it was first made available.

   

  

Copyleft

Copyleft is where the creator of a certain file has given up some of their rights, which gives the public the right to use copy and adapt it as much as they wish. The piece of work is free and all moderations of it are free as well.

There are 4 main types of license codes for Copyleft:

• Freedom 0- the freedom to use the work
• Freedom 1- the freedom to study the work
• Freedom 2- the freedom to copy and share the work with others
• Freedom 3- the freedom to modify the work and distribute the modified copies

Copyleft covers materials such as computer software, other software and art.

 

Creative commons

Creative Commons was founded in 2001 and is a non-profit organisation. The Creative Commons organisation provides a number of copyright licence choices to the public, which are free of change. These licences allow copyright holders to define conditions under which others may work and to specify what types of use are acceptable.

There are 4 major parts of Creative Commons.

• Attribution (BY): requires attribution to the original author
• Share Alike (SA): allows derivative works under the same or a similar licence
• Non-Commercial (NC): requires the work is not used for commercial purposes
• No Derivative Works (ND): allows only the original work, without derivatives.

Creative commons are very different to copyright. The copyright law gives the creator of the work the rights to copy, edit and display the work or give authorization for others to do so. The creative commons license is the authorization. The creator of the work will say what can be done with it by the public, as long as they give credit to them. The public don’t usually have to pay to use the work.

 

 

My First Comment

“Technology is just the redevelopment of old stuff”

I believe most technologies now are just redevelopments of products which already exist, just with a little bit more uses for them. It would be very hard to find a completely new technology which no one has ever seen before, but is also very successful at the same time. There is many people working and designing new technology products right this moment but they will have all needed to get their ideas from somewhere, and this is most likely to be from older products.

Even though the new technologies we have today are totally different from the old technologies, they still have some basic ideas which are carried on. For example old phones were used many years ago, and now we have many different types of smart phones available each with various apps and tools, but both old and new phones still have the same simple use of calling people, which has been improved to a large amount.