5.2 Production Unit

• Meaning of a production unit
• Factors considered when locating a production unit
• Local production units: posho mill, salon, barber shop, welding, cybercafé
• Importance of locating a production unit in a suitable area
• Factors determining the size of a production unit
• Size and location of a school production unit

• explain the factors considered when locating a production unit
• analyse the factors determining the size of a production unit
• value the importance of locating a production unit in a suitable area

“How is the size of a production unit determined?”

“What makes a location suitable for a production unit?”

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1. What a production unit is
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   Define a production unit as the organised place where goods or services are produced, including a Kenyan kiosk, mill, shade and the school workshop.
2. Factors when locating a production unit
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   Explain market, materials, transport, power and water, labour and rent, and rules or safety as factors that decide where a unit should sit.
3. Local production units and why they sit there
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   Assess a posho mill, salon, barber shop, welding shade and cybercafé, ticking the location factors that actually placed them.
4. Why a suitable location matters
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Value a suitable site by showing how the same unit fails when customers, supply, power or neighbours are wrong.
5. Factors that determine the size of a production unit
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Analyse capital, market, labour, technology or space, and rules as the lids on how large a production unit can be.
6. Site and size of a school production unit
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Apply location and size factors to a school workshop, 4-K project or canteen, and judge a suitable pin and an honest scale.