ACCA Applied Knowledge · Business and Technology · The relationship between accounting and other business functions
A company makes identical units in very large quantities on a continuous assembly line, with little variation between products. Which type of production is this?
This is mass production, where standardised products are made continuously in very large volumes. Job production makes single bespoke items, and batch production makes limited groups of items with changeovers between batches, so neither fits a continuous identical-output line.
- AJob production
- BMass productionCorrect
- CBatch production
Explanation
Mass production makes large volumes of standardised products continuously. Job production makes one-off items to a customer's specification, and batch production makes groups of items, with the line changing between batches.
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