Scale of Production

One-Off

• High cost product which is tailor made for a customer
• Made to exact personal specifications
• High skilled crafts person ensuring a high quality product
• Labour intensive and time consuming
• Expensive

Batch

• Flexibility in adapting production to another product
• Fast response to market trends
• Very good economies of scale in bulk buying materials
• Lower unit cost than one off produced products
• Poor production plannign can result in large quantities of products being stored
• Frequent changes in production can cause costly retooling

Mass

• Highly automated and efficient manufacturing process
• Rigorous quality control ensures identicle goods
• Excellent economies of scale in bulk buying materials
• Increased production means that the set up costs are quickly recovered
• Low unit costs
• Reduced labour costs
• High initial set up costs due to expensive machinery and tools
• Inflexible, cant respond to market trends quickly

Continuous

• Same as mass production
• Extremely low unit cost
• Runs continuously
• Very little flexibility