Business studies chocoholic’s plc activity 2
Assessment exam question
Job production is used when a firm manufactures individual unique products. Two examples of job production are building bridges and made-to-measure clothes. Businesses use specialisation to make their work production more efficient. It’s called division of labour this is when a company divide their worker and each do their own specific job. This way a worker does the same task up to 100 times a day so become experts and it therefore increasing efficiency and this would improve the businesses productivity. Batch production is in-between mass production and job production businesses use mass production to make 1 batch of their product then they stop. Change jobs and make a batch of something else a different product. This form of production is suited to products that are identical to one an other but are only producers in limited quantities or for a limited amount of time. Such as furniture where produces make a limited number of the same design but make many designs or building a batch of identical houses on a new estate. Flow production involves a continuous movement of items through the production process. This means that when one task is finished the next task must start immediately. Therefore, the time taken on each task must be the same. Flow production involves the use of production lines such as in a car manufacturer where doors, engines, bonnets and wheels are added to a chassis as it moves along the assembly line. It is appropriate when firms are looking to produce a high volume of similar items. Some of the brand names that have consistently high demand and that are most suitable for this type of production and use flow production:
