A Level AQA Product Design

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What scale of production is used in the manufacture of paper? Options: One off, Batch, Mass, Continuous

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Continuous

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What scale of production is used in the manufacture of soft drinks? Options: Continuous, Batch, Mass, JIT

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Continuous

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What scale of production is used in the manufacture of books?

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Batch

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Sometimes called custom production, it is dependent upon highly skilled workers who are able to take on a number of tasks and build a product to a customer’s exact needs.

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One off

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This involves manufacturing a number of identical products, usually by workers who take on more specialised roles.

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Batch

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Batches might be as small as a handful and as large as several thousand.

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True

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Workers are often less skilled as there is usually more reliance upon machinery set up to do a single task at each stage.

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Mass

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With this scale of production it is usual for the products to move along a production line as it is a very efficient way of making products in a short period of time.

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Mass

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What scale of production is used in the manufacture of cars?

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Mass

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This is where the number of products required is so huge that the production line needs to run day and night.

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Continuous