Across
- 4. use of relatively more machinery than labour in production (1 word/s)
- 6. process of reducing capacity, usually by laying off staff (1 word/s)
- 8. cost benefits that all firms in the industry can enjoy when the industry expands (4 word/s)
- 10. form of flow production where materials pass through a plant where a series of processes are carried out in order to change the product (2 word/s)
- 11. contracting out of work that might otherwise have been performed within the organisation to other businesses (1 word/s)
- 13. method of production that involves one unit being produced at a time, often by hand (2 word/s)
- 14. production methods that make more use of labour relative to machinery (2 word/s)
- 15. size of a business scarce resources with limited availability (1 word/s)
- 16. method that involves completing one operation at a time on all units before performing the next (2 word/s)
- 17. rate at which goods are produced, and the amount produced, especially in relation to the work, time and money needed to produce them (1 word/s)
Down
- 1. system in which people work a fixed number of hours each week or month, but can change the times at which they start and ?nish each day (1 word/s)
- 2. factory where parts are put together to make a finished product (2 word/s)
- 3. production methods that make more use of machinery relative to labour (2 word/s)
- 5. cost benefits that an individual firm can enjoy when it expands (4 word/s)
- 7. transformation of resources into a final product (1 word/s)
- 9. large-scale production of a standard product, where each operation on a unit is performed continuously one after the other, usually on a production line (2 word/s)
- 12. output per worker in a given time period (2 word/s)