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  • 23 Jul 2019

Has anyone heard the term serial production?

Serial production (known also as mass production or batch production) is a type of production for large quantities of products. In it, people specialize in different activities and work together.

Example:

Peter and John produce ribbons. Peter creates a ribbon in 9 minutes and ties it in 1 minute. John creates a ribbon in 1 minute and ties it in 9 minutes. If they work separately, they will produce 2 ribbons in 10 minutes. But if John only creates the ribbons, while Peter only ties them, together they could produce 10 ribbons in 10 minutes.

Many of the products we use in our everyday lives were created with with a similar production method. Such products are:

  • the food in the supermarket;
  • telephones;
  • computers.

Today we'll try to imitate the serial production of robots. We'll do this in the following way:

  1. Divide into groups of 2 or 3 teams.
  2. The instructions of the robot are divided into 3 main parts (3 modules) and one additional for assembly. Schedule the instructions with the teams in your group.
  3. Build the module you are responsible for as many times as the number of teams you have in the group.
  4. Distribute the modules so that each team has all the components of the robot.
  5. Assemble them.

If you manage to finish earlier, help the other teams in your group.

Hint:

In one step collect as many parts as you need for building all the modules. For example, if you need two
Technic Beams 5 and you have to build three modules for the group, just look for 6 Technic Beams 5 at once.

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