Scale of Production
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- Created on: 01-03-16 04:49
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- Scale of Production
- Mass Production
- Making many amounts of the same products
- Different Stages of production are broken down
- very repetitive
- expensive
- Specialised
- Recruitment is fairly easy
- Continuous Production
- It runs all the time, with not interruption
- Expensive to start and stop the process
- equipment is made to make a single product
- design created efficiently
- Cost per item =cheap
- Example
- Chocolate bar packaging
- Just-in-time
- This isn't a type of production.
- It is a way a manufacturer chooses to outsource its materials
- Saves storage area
- Saves money
- Less money is tied up with materials not being used.
- Unsold products don't pile up.
- If products are delayed it can effect the business, as it loses money
- Also if materials don't arrive on time it can effect the business
- This isn't a type of production.
- One-Off Production
- It can be very labor intensive
- Time consuming
- The worker have to be skilled as they have to create the product from scratch
- Expensive
- This is when only one product is made.
- It can be said that each item is customized
- Examples: Paintings
- It can be very labor intensive
- Batch Production
- Labor and machinery can be used
- It is when you perform 1 process on a whole batch
- Examples
- Leaflets
- Posters
- Special addition products
- The batches are made repeatedly
- Making a set number of products
- Time lost between the change of batches is called Downtime
- Downtime wastes money
- Not as effiecnt as Mass production
- Increased production and the effects
- If type of production in changed, it impacts the efficiency
- Because measures would have to change for increased efficiency
- Workers and materials would have to managed so it would suit the new production style
- Efficiency is key, as it effects the amount of money used.
- New equipment would have to be purchased for the new production style.
- If type of production in changed, it impacts the efficiency
- Mass Production
- One-Off Production
- It can be very labor intensive
- Time consuming
- The worker have to be skilled as they have to create the product from scratch
- Expensive
- This is when only one product is made.
- It can be said that each item is customized
- Examples: Paintings
- It can be very labor intensive
- Batch Production
- Labor and machinery can be used
- It is when you perform 1 process on a whole batch
- Examples
- Leaflets
- Posters
- Special addition products
- The batches are made repeatedly
- Making a set number of products
- Time lost between the change of batches is called Downtime
- Downtime wastes money
- Not as effiecnt as Mass production
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