Question

How It's Made is a documentary television program that is aired on the Discover/Science Channel weekly. This is a fascinating program explores the manufacturing process.

Using the Internet, search to the television show How It's Made, select an episode that interests you. Watch the episode and discuss why you selected that product. Take notes while watching the episode and share in this discussion thread the 'process' by which the product selected is made. No detail is too small, describe the entire process from beginning to end and include what are considered direct materials, direct labor, and what was included as factory overhead (all indirect costs).

Answer 1

Answer:

The item which I chose is chewing gum. Chewing gum is a totally not the same as every single other item, children even now love to chew the bubble gum and attempt to blow baloons from that babulgum. In any case, parcel of them not know how it is made and what are the crude materials that are utilized to make chewing gum.

Chewing gum in earlier days is made by gum base gathered from tree gum/resin. which is common and nonhraming substance. Be that as it may, presently a days synthetic and plastics are being utilized to make chewing gum.

Procedure of making chewing-gum:

1. The gum base is poured in to a mixture, a machine to blend all the materials. Furthermore, next it will be blended in with the flavoured color and procedure of blending is begun. during the blending procedure a fluid sugar, corn syrup is added to that mixture of gum base and enhanced color. It additionally keeps the gum base mixed delicate. what's more, during the procedure a powedered sugar is additionally included. This mixture is blended in the machine for 20 minutes. It combines all the materials.

2. After the blend is prepared to spread down it is moved to another machine through cargo. The machine squezes out ot the blend from a thin openings. This thin stripes goes into another machine where the chewing gum stripes get its real shape, sugar powder dust is utilized to easliy slice the chewinggum stripe in to little pieces

3. Further it goes into the cooling chamber for 15 minutes. Also, next another machine cuts it into pieces and spreads a wraper to the chewing gum.

4. In the following stage a machine twists the chewing gum warper and sends it to other machine where some fixed load of chewing gums are droped consequently into stickerred pails.

5. And finally they were pressed and packed with a covering which keeps the chewing gums new. This is the procedure how a chewing gum is set up with equipment.

Direct materials utilized in chewing gum:

• Gum base,
• fluid and powdered sugar,
• covering and packing material,
• Buckets,
• cealing cover..etc...

Indirect material utilized in chewing gum:  shaded and colored flavor

Direct work: compensation for labor who are in assembling or manufacturing process

Indirect expenses ( Factory over heads) :-

• Remuneration for controlling staff,
• Administrating staff, administrators of various divisions and so on.
• Power to run equipment, Machinary devaluation,
• rent for the manufacturing plant building,
• cleaning materials,
• stationery, and so on...