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Name the six factors influencing a manufacturing technique.
Answer
The type of part, the material, the scale of production, the production system available, cost constraints, and environmental considerations.
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Which factor decides most often?
Answer
Scale, because it decides whether the tooling can be paid for — though a shape or a material the process cannot handle rules it out whatever the volume.
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How is a conflict between scale and cost resolved?
Answer
Start with a cheaper process at lower volume, prove the market, then tool up — and write down the volume that triggers the change.
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How does the production system influence the choice?
Answer
A factory uses what it has and what its people know, so it may machine a part a moulder would mould, or buy the moulded part in.
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