Secondary Industry as a System

Secondary Industry as a System

  September 13, 2020    Fantasy

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Secondary and Tertiary Industries

·         Secondary industry is concerned with changing raw material from the primary sector or secondary products, to form a semi-finished or finished product.

·         It is regarded as a system with inputs, processes and outputs.

 

Secondary Industry as a system

·         Inputs leading to processes leading to outputs

 

Inputs of Secondary Industry

The inputs can be grouped into:

Capital:

·         Finance to establish and manage the factories

Enterprise:

·         Business skills needed to develop ideas for products and to manufacture and market them in a successful way.

Land:

·         The actual place where the industry is located.

Raw material:

·         The basic commodity that is transformed by industrial processes

Power:

·         Every industry uses power. Some have high power consumption whilst others, like stitching, have much less.

Labor:

·         The number, skills and other characteristics of the work force

Processes of Secondary Industry

Smelting, Weaving, Spinning, dyeing, printing, knitting, stitching, tanning, moulding

 

Outputs of Secondary Industry

Processed Goods

Manufactured Goods