Production:
Taking the 'factors of production' and turning them into 'products'.
Job, batch,flow and cell production:
Job production involves making a single product at a time.
Lets make a unique talking dog:
Because the numbers produced are small this method of production tends to be labour intensive.
Batch production:
Production is divided into a number of operations.
A particular operation is carried out on all products in a batch.
Flow production:
Cell production is a form of team work where the entire process of production is split into small groups called cells.
Each 'cell' is responsible for a complete unit of work.
Once this work has been completed it moves to the next 'cell'.
Each 'cell' checks the quality of its work.
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More details on methods of production here. (Scroll down the page.)
You need to learn two advantages and two disadvantages of each method.
Labour productivity:
