Production+Methods

You need to understand the different production methods, their disadvantages and advantages as well as the type of products made by them.


 * ** One Off (Job Production ** ||
 * **What it is** || **What it involves** || **Type of product** || **Advantages** || **Disadvantages** ||
 * · A traditional method of production

· Only one unique item is made || · One operator or small team making all of a product

· Highly skilled, expert workers || · Theatre costumes

· Haute couture outfits

· Wedding dresses || · Complicated detailed products

· Versatile machinery used to cover any textile process

· A high quality, expensive product. || · Takes a long time to make the product

· Labour intensive, needs skilled workers

· Very expensive to produce ||


 * ** Batch Production ** ||
 * **What it is** || **What it involves** || **Type of product** || **Advantages** || **Disadvantages** ||
 * · The production of a specific number of a product

· Each batch (specific amount) can be repeated as many times as needed || · Several reasonably skilled workers or teams of workers

· Workers join together to make the whole product each worker doing a specific job. || · Fashion items that would be sold in High street shops such as Primark, Mothercare, M&S, New Look || · It is flexible and can be easily changed for new orders · A variety of styles can be made quite quickly · Flexible working conditions · Staff can be trained · Lower production costs || · Equipment needs to be restarted after a production run · Time is lost making changes to the production run · Stock needs to be stored. ||

=**Mass Production (Flow Production)**=

· Socks · Sheets || · Materials can be bought in bulk · Costs are quite low · Semi skilled and unskilled labour can be used · Can be quite automated || · Expensive to set up initially · Storage of raw materials and products · Workers can become bored ||
 * Repetitive Flow Production ||
 * What it is || What it involves || Type of product || Advantages || Disadvantages ||
 * · A large number of identical items are produced at a relatively low cost || · Production is broken down into sub assemblies of smaller components || · T shirts

· Often highly automated || · Thread · Fabric || · Very low cost · Small workforce needed || · Expensive to shut down and restart production if something goes wrong. Only very simple products can be made. ||
 * ** Continuous Flow ** ||
 * **What it is** || **What it involves** || **Type of product** || **Advantages** || **Disadvantages** ||
 * · Production of an identical simple, textiles item 24 hours a day, 7 days a week without stopping. || · Uninteruppted production of an identical textiles product

[|Spinning mill ,Continuous Flow Production video]

=**Other commercial manufacturing systems**

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