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GCSE Revision (Types of Production)
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GCSE Revision (Types of Production)
Scale
- Continuous (non-stop)
- Expensive (-)
- 24/7 (-)
- examples
- Oil refining
- Chemical
- Steel
- Expensive (-)
- Jobbing (one-off)
- single product
- Indivdual needs (+)
- Specific requirements (+)
- Indivdual needs (+)
- Labour intensive (-)
- Highly skilled workforce
- single product
- Batch (specific quantity)
- Flexible (+)
- Labour
- Team working
- Cells
- Small groups of people working on a particular section of the production line.
- Cells
- Team working
- Machinery
- Labour
- Between batches
- Downtime
- Unproductive (-)
- Downtime
- Flexible (+)
- Mass (high volume)
- Large scale
- Tasks broken down
- Repetative
- Low skills
- QC/QA important
- Repetative
- Tasks broken down
- Expensive specilised equipment (-)
- Large workforce
- Recruitment easy (+)
- examples
- Car/vans
- White/Electrical goods
- Just in time (JIT)
- Large scale
- Continuous (non-stop)
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- Covers the required scale of production in the AQA Product Design Specification
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- T Andrews
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