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   A job card is a card that gives the detail of a job to be performed in a production facility. It is used as a means to authorise and instruct the production people to take up the production work. The content and formats of the job card varies from company to company. But in general job cards will contain details such as:

   • component or product to be produced.
   • Quantities to be manufactured
   • planned manufacturing schedule
   • Actual manufacturing time
   • Any additional instructions that may be required by the production workmen

   The job card may or may not contain the details of operations to be performed at different operating stations. This information identifies how a job lot under production from work center to work center. In this way the job card traces the route to be taken by the job during the production process. A job card of this type may be called a route card.

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   Posted by krishna-agrawala on Friday September 4, 2009 at 8:05 AM