5.2 Production

Question 1

What are the kinds of production?

Answer 1

1. Job
2. Flow
3. Batch

Question 2

What is Job production?

Answer 2

Product is made one by one to finish, this needs highly specialised workers and skilled equipment.

Benefits:

1. Unique Products
2. Happy workers

Limitations:

1. Slow
2. Expensive
   
   1. No economies of scale

Question 3

What is Batch production?

Answer 3

This is where items are completed one stage at a time.

benefits:

1. Unit costs are lower
2. bulk buying

limitations:

1. less moticared workers
2. inventory prices

Question 4

benefits:

limitations:What us Flow Production?

Answer 4

This is the division of labour, where products are moving continuously along a production line.

benefits:

1. Capital Intensive
2. Bulk Buying
3. Large output

limitations:

1. Large Capital
2. No motivation
3. inflevible
4. one breaks, all breaks
5. high levels of raq materials

Question 5

How is productivity measured?

Answer 5

It is the output ptoduced per unit of input given

Question 6

How did technology change production?

Answer 6

benefits:

1. reduces costs and time
2. increases productivity
3. improves quality
4. lowers prices
5. better products more easily made
6. work is easier
7. business more capital intensive = better business

Limitations:

1. Expensive
2. Inflexible
3. more training
4. products become out of date quickly
5. repair is expensive
6. less employees needed
7. less interesting work

Question 7

Why is quality important?

Answer 7

Quality is a product free of defects. Quality is needed to:

1. Develope a good brand image
2. Keep customers and attarc new ones
3. reduce costs
4. charge a premium price
5. encourage wholesalers and retailers
6. lengthen product life cycles

Question 8

How is quality production achieved?

Answer 8

1. Quality Control
2. Total Quality Management

Question 9

How is quality controlled?

Answer 9

Inspectors will check the products at the end of the process, although checking them at every stage of production is best.

Problems:

1. repetitive, reduce effectiveness
2. inspection at end doesn’t check a lot of things
3. quality inspectors demotivate employees

Question 10

What is quality assurance?

Answer 10

1. everything is checked one by one
2. products are designed to be less likely to be fucked
3. employees have responsibility

benefits:

1. Problems caught quickly, less expensive to throw out at the beginning rather than end
2. easier to obtain quality awards for better reputation.