Version 1.0, August 31, 2001, Copyright, Hugh Jack 1993-2001

66.4 MANUFACTURING VOLUMES

 

· When we are planning operations we must consider the economy of scale.

 

· If we are producing large volumes, we may want to produce tooling (expensive), but amortize the costs over thousands of parts (less expensive). Examples of this include,

  1. - injection molds for thermoplastics
  2. - molds for wax, to make investment casting molds
  3. - progressive dies
  4. - etc.