National 5 Operations Revision

What are the 3 Methods of Production?

• Job, Batch & Flow

• Land, Labour & Enterprise

• Input, Process, Output

• Job, Capital & Flow

Which Method of Production would you use to make a Wedding Dress?

• Job

• Batch

• Flow

When a product is checked at every stage of production?

• Quality Control

• Quality Assurance

• Benchmarking

• Quality Circle

When a small group of employees meet with managers to discuss improvements that could be made to the production process?

• Quality Control

• Quality Assurance

• Quality Circles

• Benchmarking

When products are mass manufactured; it involves identical products going from stage to stage on an assembly production line with parts being added to it at each stage.

• Job Production

• Batch Production

• Flow Production

Which of the following is not an advantage of Job Production?

• Businesses cannot always buy raw materials in bulk

• Staff are more motivated as work is less mundane

• Higher prices can be charged

Flow Production involves making unique, personalised products.

• True

• False

Organisations can benefit from economies of scale when using Flow Production

• True

• False

When humans do most of the work. Most common in job production, for example, skilled hand crafts such as cake decorating.

• Labour Intensive Production

• Capital Intensive Production

Labour, Materials and Machinery are examples of

• Inputs

• Process

• Outputs