GCSE Revision (Types of Production)

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Covers the required scale of production in the AQA Product Design Specification
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GCSE Revision (Types of Production)
  1. Scale
    1. Continuous (non-stop)
      1. Expensive (-)
        1. 24/7 (-)
        2. examples
          1. Oil refining
            1. Chemical
              1. Steel
            2. Jobbing (one-off)
              1. single product
                1. Indivdual needs (+)
                  1. Specific requirements (+)
                2. Labour intensive (-)
                  1. Highly skilled workforce
                  2. Batch (specific quantity)
                    1. Flexible (+)
                      1. Labour
                        1. Team working
                          1. Cells

                            Annotations:

                            • Small groups of people working on a particular section of the production line.
                        2. Machinery
                        3. Between batches
                          1. Downtime
                            1. Unproductive (-)
                        4. Mass (high volume)
                          1. Large scale
                            1. Tasks broken down
                              1. Repetative
                                1. Low skills
                                2. QC/QA important
                              2. Expensive specilised equipment (-)
                                1. Large workforce
                                  1. Recruitment easy (+)
                                  2. examples
                                    1. Car/vans
                                      1. White/Electrical goods
                                      2. Just in time (JIT)
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