This document discusses secondary economic activities as systems with inputs, processes, and outputs. It provides examples of a bakery and computer factory as systems. The computer factory case study describes PC Pro in Cork, Ireland which assembles computers from imported components through processes like tagging, assembling, testing, and packaging, with outputs of assembled computers and computer parts.

1. Secondary Economic Activities
as Systems (Chapter 55)

2. Secondary Economic Activity
Just like farming, any secondary economic
activity can be seen as a system:
Inputs
Outputs
Processes

3. Inputs
Processes
Outputs

4. In a bakery, which of the following is
not an input?
Electricity
Bags of flour
Sliced bread
Baking trays
Plastic gloves

6. Manufacturing Industry
Any business that transforms raw
materials into finished or semi-finished
goods, using machines, tools and labour.

7. Case Study
PC Pro
Inputs, Processes and Outputs in an
Irish Computer Factory

8. PC Pro
• Irish owned computer assembly plant.
• Located in Southside Industrial
Estate, Togher, Cork City.
• PC Pro, like all factories, works as a system.

9. Inputs:
• Factory building
• 20 employees
• Imported components
– Case
– Motherboard
– CPU
– Hard disk
– Video card
– Monitor
– Keyboard
– Mouse

10. Processes
• Tagging and shelving components in factory
warehouse
• Selecting components to suit customers’ orders
• Assembling computer
• Quality control
• Burn-in (testing)
• Packaging and delivering computer

11. Outputs
• Assembles computers
• Software packages
• Individual computer parts

12. Question – Secondary Industry
(a) Name one manufacturing industry that you
have studied.
(b)Describe this industry referring to its
inputs, processes and outputs.