The production site is a production unit that combines a number of jobs grouped by a certain attribute, which carries out part of the general production process for manufacturing products or servicing the production process. At the production site, in addition to the main and auxiliary workers, there is a head - the master of the site.
Plots are created according to two principles:
1. Technological . The site consists of the same type of equipment (a group of lathes, a group of milling, drilling machines); workers on the site perform a certain type of operation. There is no assignment to workplaces for manufacturing certain types of products. This type of sites is typical for small-scale and single types of organization of production.
2. Subject-enclosed . At such a site, heterogeneous equipment is used, which is located along the process. Jobs specialize in the manufacture of a certain type of product (parts). On the site are busy workers of various specialties. A variation of this type of sections are production lines. This type of sites is typical for large-scale and mass production, its work is more efficient than the site created by the technological principle.
Several production sites are combined into workshops. In small and medium-sized enterprises, where a shop-free structure has been introduced, the production site may possess features characteristic of the workshop . Only the degree of administrative and economic independence of such a site is less than that of the workshop, and the servicing apparatus is much more limited than the machinery of the workshop.