Scale Of Production
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- Created on: 01-03-16 04:40
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- Scale Of Production
- One-Off
- making "one of a kind
- every item will be different
- very labor intensive
- takes a lot of time to make each product
- highly skilled workers, very expensive
- paintings
- furniture
- some clothing
- making "one of a kind
- Batch
- when a specific quantity of a product is made in batches
- repeated as many times as needed
- one process for the whole batch
- machinery and workforce need to be flexable
- downtime can be expensive
- backlog of half made products also expensive
- leaflets
- posters
- Brochures
- when a specific quantity of a product is made in batches
- Mass
- thousands of the same products
- identical
- mass market products
- broken down stages
- simple repetitive tasks
- each worker plays a small part tin the assembly line
- expensive equiptment
- CAD/ CAM
- newspapers
- magazines
- some food
- thousands of the same products
- Continuous
- runs all the time
- Expensive to stop and start a process
- certain conditions that need to be kept constant
- equipment designed to make huge amounts
- expensive but efficient so cost per item is lower
- only makes one thing
- making paper
- fabrics
- waterbottles
- Just in time
- efficient
- needs good planning
- gets materials and components as needed
- use them as soon as delivered
- saves storage and money
- money not tied up in materials
- unsold products dont pile up
- relies on everything being on time and in good condition
- cars
- computers
- clothing
- efficient
- One-Off
- cars
- computers
- clothing
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