Sometimes called custom production it is dependent upon highly skilled workers who are able to take on a number of tasks and build a product to a customer’s exact needs.

Batches might be as small as a handful and as large as several thousand

Workers are often less skilled as there is usually more reliance upon machinery set up to do a single task at each stage.

With this scale of production it is usual for the products to move along a production line as it is a very efficient way of making products in a short period of time.

What scale of production is used in the manufacture of cars?

This is where the number of products required is so huge that the production line needs to run day and night.

Automation is vital to this type of production

To ensure that this can happen the whole manufacturing plant is often designed around a single product.

No two products will be exactly the same which is often the reason the customers are prepared to pay more.

Simple products made by a single worker, such as a wedding cake, to very complex products, such as oil rigs manufactured by hundreds of workers are examples of one-off production.

Bread and cakes are often made using batch production.

One off products are time consuming to produce.

Unique and high-quality products are produced in low volumes, what scale of production is this referring to?

Most clothing will be produced using which scale of production?

High set-up costs and capital investment are true of which scale of production?

Materials, such as steel, timber and paper stock are all made using this scale of production.