Title: Describe components of the systems model as it relates to production.
Course: Production Systems (13101-36) > Section: Exploring the Nature of Technology

Description should include

- inputs—anything used by the system (e.g., people, information, materials, tools and machines, energy, capital, time)
- processes—method of combining inputs to produce an action
- outputs—results or products of the system
- feedback—ongoing critical review of the process and results sent back through the system for improvement, both from internal and external customers.

Description should also include a comparison of the most common types of production systems, including

- batch system
- continuous system
- project system.

Process/Skill Questions:

- What resources are needed for production systems?
- What are some examples of technological processes?
- How do the components of the systems model relate to one another?
- How is feedback used to control or change a system?
- What are two types of systems?
- How do materials, as well as capital and human costs, affect outputs?