1. Business Today Unit 2 Manufacturing Review Show the picture – ask students to describe what it depicts.

2. A manufacturer takes extractor’s products or raw materials and changes them into a form consumers can use.

3. Mass Production is the production of large quantities of standardized products on assembly lines.

4. Identical products produced using a continuous, efficient process. Machines running at high speed on their own. Automated – electronic.

5. Worker assists the machine in doing the job smoothly. Workers skilled but not as highly as a craftsman.

6. Workers still take pride in the final product.

7. Custom Manufacturing – production of a unique product.

8. Workers are skilled craftsmen – perform several steps in the process vs. just one in many.

9. Machines running at speeds controlled by worker. Machine assists the worker.

10. More mechanical than automated. Slower pace. More hands-on.

11. Custom manufacturing may have elements of assembly line production. Rolls Royce’s are custom ordered but engines, etc. still have to be assembled.

12. Many snowboards produced but not at the level that they produce potato chips.