One-off production or custom production
Batch production
Mass Production
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One off Production
- Final product is expensive
- Highly crafted product and highly skilled people
- Labour intensive
- Specific requirement for user
- One person or a small number of people
- Produced one at a time
- Original piece
- High standard of quality control
Batch Production
- A production line is set up
- The production line can be changed quickly, so that different products can be made.
- Team of people produce a require number of the same product
- Products can be produced a certain number at a time
- Templates, mould, former, jigs are used.
- Each worker completes one task and passing down the production line to the next worker.
- The workers are semi skilled or unskilled.
Mass Production
- Long period of time
- A semi-automated or fully automated production line is set up
- Each person is trained for specific job
- Large numbers of products are manufactured
- Sometimes require very little human input
- A lot of time and money to buy equipment and change tooling
- Cost of item is lower in the long term
- Expensive tool and machinery are used
- Limited training of staff as the product and equipment changes slowly.
