Production
Resources & Assets
Vocab 1
Vocab 2
Vocab 3
100

The economic process or activity of producing goods and services

What is Production?

100

Assets of a business

What is Capital?

100

Buying the resources needed for production

What is Purchasing?

100

A method of operating or controlling a process in which tasks are completed by automatic means

What is Automation?

100

A production method in which the product moves past workers who each do one assigned production task

What is Assembly Line?

200

The way in which production is carried out

What is Production Process?

200

Money needed to operate a business

What is Financial Capital

200

The goods and services produced as the result of combining inputs

What is Outputs

200

The process of raising funds from a large group of people, usually via the internet

What is Crowdfunding?

200

Issuing orders for production to start

What is Dispatching?

300

The rapid production of large quantities of a product

What is Mass Production?

300

Manufactured or constructed items that are used to produce goods and services

What is Capital Goods

300

A mass production technique in which robots carry out the repetitive tasks

What is Robotics?

300

A retail store competing on the basis of low prices and offering limited customer service

What is Discount Store?

300

The process of turning economic resources into products

What is Conversion Process?

400

Determining how products will be produced and in what amounts

What is Production Planning?

400

The specific economic resources used in producing goods and services

What is Input?

400

Items that are found in nature and used to produce goods and services

What is Natural Resources

400

The rivalry between two or more businesses to attract scarce customer dollars

What is Competition?

400

The activity that determines the sequence of the steps for production

What is Routing

500

The production of one item at a time or items in small quantities

What is Unit Production?
500

People who work to produce goods and services

What is Human Resources

500

The amount of money that the buyer is willing to pay and the seller is willing to accept for a good or service

What is Exchange Price?
500

Usefulness created by altering or changing the form, shape, or look of a good to make it more useful or attractive to the end user

What is Form Utility?

500

The activity that establishes the timetable to be followed in production

What is Scheduling?