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What is One-off production? |
One product made at a time. More expensive, takes longer. More personal to customer
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What is Batch Production?
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The production of items in pre-determined batches. A flexible approach to manufacturing that can be adapted according to demand. The size of a batch can be determined by demand, time, fashions or trends
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What is Mass production? |
when hundreds of identical products are made, usually on a production line. Mass production often involves the assembly of a number of sub-assemblies of individual components. Parts may be bought from other companies. There is usually some automation of tasks and this enables a smaller number of workers to output more products. |
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What is a Continuous Production process? |
when many thousands of identical products are made. The difference between this and mass production is that the production line is kept running 24 hours a day, seven days a week to maximise production and eliminate the extra costs of starting and stopping the production process. The process is highly automated and few workers are required.
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Define Economies of Scale? |
the reduction of per-unit costs through an increase in production volume.
Over time setting up costs (the expensive bits) are covered by the sale of the items being produced. Once that is done the costs of a product are reduced. |
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Define JIT maufacture? |
With just in time, a business holds no stock and instead relies upon deliveries of raw materials and components to arrive exactly when they are needed. Instead of occasional large deliveries to a warehouse, components arrive just when they are needed and are taken straight to the factory floor.
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3 Advantages of JIT |
Reduced warehouse costs
Reduction of the amount of stock required for production Improved competitiveness |
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Planned Obsolescence or Built in Obsolescence |
In industrial design, this is a policy of planning or designing a product with an artificially limited useful life, so it will become obsolete, that is,
1) unfashionable, 2) no longer functional or 3) Potential to be replaced by products with improved technology. |
