1. Production!
By Lucy,Witley and Hannah.

2. Methods of Production.
Job Production: this is when a single product is custom made to a customers own specification. Example of job production would be wedding dresses and bridges.
Batch production: this is when the production of similar products are made. Every item needs to be completed before moving on to the next stage. Example of batch production would be newspapers, bread and cupcakes.
Flow production: this is when the production items move continuously from one stage to the next. Each stage leads to the production of the final product. Example of flow production would be cars, some electrical products and bottled products like coca cola.

3. Labour intensive Vs Capital intensive!
Manufactures use machinery because:
Labour supply can scarce or expensive.
Consistency of product is required and with machines it is always consistent.
Continuous production is required by machines.
COSTS:
Set u p costs and installation costs are expensive.
Worker motivation can be low due to repetitive nature of tasks.
Manufactures use workforce because:
Labour supply is cheap and always available.
Products sometimes require craftsmanship or special expertise if the product has detail.
Businesses may be small and do not have finance to have expensive machinery.
COSTS:
Labour force can be expensive to buy.
If staff are ill the production of the product may have to stop.

4. Efficiency of production.
Method of study:
S: Select the task to be analysed.
R: record how it is currently done.
E: Examine the information collected.
D: Develop a better method of doing the task.
I: install the new method.
M: Maintain the new method.

5. Efficiency of production.
Work measurement.
This establishes how long tasks should take so that standard times can be identified for each task. Employee performance cant hen be judged against the standard task times.