There are four main type of production which are:
- one-off production
- only one product is being made at a time
- every product are different
- may be made by hand or a combination of hand and machine methods
- batch production
- small quantities of identical products are made
- may be also labor intensive, but jigs and templates are used to aid production
- machines can be easily changed to produce a batch of a different product
- mass production
- hundreds of identical products are made
- involves the assembly of a number of sub-assemblies of individual components
- parts may be bought from other companies
- usually some automation of tasks and enables a smaller number of workers to output more products
- continuous flow production
- thousands of identical products are made
- differences between mass production is that the production line is kept running 24/7 to maximize production and eliminate extra cost for starting and stopping the production process
- highly automated and few workers are required
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