MAKING THINGS BUSINESS VOCABULARY IN USE

 

BUSINESS VOCABULARY IN USE 16. MAKING THINGS

 

A Products A product can be: • something natural • something made to be sold • a service Produce refers to agricultural products such as crops or fruit. For example, you can buy fresh produce ay a farmer’s market. Something that is made is produced or manufactured. B Mass production ‘I’m Steve and I’m head of car production at a manufacturing plant. ‘Plant’ sounds more modern than factory or works. On the assembly line we mass-produce cars. The plant is highly automated: we use a lot of machinery. These machines are expensive to buy but very cost-effective – we don’t have to pay them wages! We use industrial robots. These robots are part of the CADCAM system of computer-assisted design and manufacturing.’ C Capacity and output Output is the number of the type of things that a plant, company, industry or country produces. Productivity is a measure of how much is produced in relation to the number of employees. High output per employee = high productivity. The maximum amount that a particular plant, company or industry can produce is its capacity. If it is producing this amount, it is working at full capacity. If it is producing more than what is needed, there is overproduction or: EXERCISES 16.1 Complete this table with words from A opposite. 16.2 Rearrange these lines to make a text containing words from B and C opposite. 1. work. Of course, we still have a lot of assembly 2. plant producing TVs in Singapore. We have two production 3. My name’s George Chen, and I’m director of manufacturing 4. lines working 24 hours a day. We use CAD 16.3 Match the headlines (1-7) to the extracts they relate to (a-g) a … Overall production in the country rose by five per cent last year … b … Rainfall has been below average in this part of Africa for the past five years. Not enough food has been grown … c … Too much oil has been produced recently in relation to world demand …

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