Paper 1 · November 2020 · Production and Operations
Which of these is made by job production?
ATwo hundred brown loaves baked in a single run
BCans of soft drink filled on a moving line
CBricks turned out to one standard size all day
DA wedding cake made to a customer's own design
Explanation
Job production makes one complete, usually unique item at a time to the customer's own specification, using skilled labour and general purpose equipment. A run of identical loaves is batch production, and the drink cans and the standard bricks are flow production.
Derived from ZIMSEC Business Studies Paper 1, November 2020, Q1