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The way products are manufactured depends on the quantity required. For example, cars are continually manufactured in hundreds of thousands , a prototype is a ‘one off’ (just one made) and DIY furniture is made in batches of thousands. Batch production is described below. |
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1. A production line is set up. |
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The example production line (shown below) is that of an engineering company, manufacturing small steel products such as hinges and locks. They manufacture batches of five hundred at a time. The workers are unskilled and semi skilled. As each task is completed the item being manufactured is passed down the production line to the next worker, until it is complete. |
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QUESTIONS: 1. Draw a flowchart to represent the production line shown in the example. |
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