Truck, Train, Ship, or Plane?
What are the 4 forms of transportation in which products are transported?
Truck, Train, Ship, or Plane
What are the three site factors? Which one is the most important?
Labor, Capital, and Land.
Labor is the most important one.
What are the three steps of textile and apparel production?
Spinning, Weaving, and Assembly
What is just-in-time deliver?
Shipment of parts and materias to arrive at a factory moments before they are needed.
Difference between labor-intensive and high-wage industries.
Labor-intensive measured by percentage
High-wage measured in dollars
Labor-intensive.
No, their distribution is NOT the same.
Definition of break-of-bulk point and example.
Definition: Companies that use multiple forms of transportation to transport a product
Example: Steel mill in Indiana may receive an iron ore by ship via Lake Michigan and coal by train from Appalachia
(Examples may vary).
Pro's and cons of factories clustering in cities
Pros: offers proximity to large markets, transportation (railroad), capital, and a large labor source
Cons: Lack of land
What is the principal natural fiber?
Cotton
What are the 3 disruptions that can result on relaying on just-in-time delivery?
Natural hazards, Traffic, Labor unrest.
Why would MDC's not give a loan to LDC's?
Unstable political system, high debt level, or ill advised economic policies.
True or False: Weaving was done primarly by men.
True. Due to the fact that weaving by hand is physically hard work, weavers were men.
What has facilitated transfer of packages between modes of transport?
Containerization
Where do high-tech industries usually cluster in the U.S and why?
They cluster in the California's Silicon Valley because of high capital.
What was the nationality of the man that invented the first functional sewing maching?
HINT: His name was Barthelemy Thimonnier.
French.