World Geography 3200/02

Unit 5.2: Types of Manufacturing

Labour-intensive and capital-intensive.

Labour-Intensive: A manufacturing process that requires a lot of person hours to produce the product.

Capital-Intensive: A manufacturing process thatrequires a lot of expensive equipment to make the product

Analyze a manufacturing operation to determine if it is labour-intensive or capital-intensive.

The terms labour-intensive and capital-intensive are used to describe the process in a manufacturing operation

• Jewelry making, and handcrafting are all labour intensive activities.• They require people to work hands on with little machinery

• The automotive industry is a capital-intensive industry• For the most part expensive, high tech machines do most of the work.

Kia factory video

Jewelry Making Video

Light industry and heavy industry.Light Industry: Industry that produces products that are intended for consumer use. The products are usually smaller and cheaper

Heavy Industry: Industry that produces products intended for other industrial uses. These are usually large, expensive products

Airplanes Tractors Trains Ships

Pop Bottles Shoes Paper Toys

Clothes Laptops Cell Phones

Analyze a manufacturing operation to determine if it is an example of light- industry or heavy-industry.

Manufacturing operations can be classified by their outputs:

If the outputs are for everyday consumer use they are usually classified as light industry

If the outputs are for other industrial purposes than they are usually classified as heavy industry

a) Making water turbines?

b) Assembling televisions?

c) Shirt manufacturing? d) Ship building?

Classify the following as labour or capital intensive and light or heavy industry.

Pg. 218Figure 13.2

Case Study

Manufacturing Wrigley’s Gum page 219;

Making Steel World Wide pages 221-223. (1)

• 5. Its capital intensive because there are more machines than people. Light

• 6.It is synthetic because you combine a bunch of things to create the one product.