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In general, job-shop systems have a lower unit cost than continuous systems do because continuous systems use costly specialized equipment.

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Product layouts typically achieve high utilization of labor and equipment.

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Accounting, purchasing, and inventory control are fairly routine with process layouts.

A production line is to be designed for a job with three tasks. The task times are 0.3 minutes, 1.4 minutes, and 0.7 minutes. For a single production line with no parallel activities, the minimum cycle time in minutes is

Computer-aided manufacturing refers to the use of computers in

Avoiding bottlenecks is the primary goal of product design.

The minimum number of workstations for a production line is determined in part by the desired output rate.

A common goal in designing process layouts is

An advantage of a U-shaped production line is that

A company needs to locate three departments (X, Y, and Z) in the three areas (I, II, and III) of a new facility. They want to minimize interdepartmental transportation costs, which are expected to be $0.50 per load meter moved. An analyst has prepared the following flow and distance matrices: If the company were to locate departments X, Y, and Z in areas I, II, and III, respectively, what would be the total distance (in meters) loads would be moved each week?

A company needs to rebalance a product layout for producing new plastic license plates. They plan to use the assembly line 6 hours in order to meet projected demand of 2,160 license plates each day. The following table describes the tasks involved in the production of this product: For output to equal projected demand, what is the theoretical minimum number of workstations needed?

Information technology refers to competitive data.

The goal of line balancing is to assign tasks to workstations in such a way that the workstations have approximately equal time requirements.

A company needs to locate three departments (X, Y, and Z) in the three areas (I, II, and III) of a new facility. They want to minimize interdepartmental transportation costs, which are expected to be $0.50 per load per meter moved. An analyst has prepared the following distances and flow matrices: What are total weekly costs for the least costly process layout?

Which of the following process types would be most likely to be used in the maturity phase of a product's life cycle?

The main issue in the design of process layouts for service operations concerns the relative positioning of

Which one of the following is not considered an important factor in retail layout design?

QRS Corp. is designing a product layout for a new product. They plan to use this production line 10 hours a day in order to meet forecasted demand of 900 units per day. The following table describes the tasks necessary to produce this product: For output to equal forecasted demand, what should be the actual cycle time for this production?

A company needs to locate three departments (X, Y, and Z) in the three areas (I, II, and III) of a new facility. They want to minimize interdepartmental transportation costs, which are expected to be $0.50 per load per meter moved. An analyst has prepared the following distances and flow matrices: If departments X, Y, and Z were to be located in areas I, II, and III, respectively, what would be the total distance (in meters) loads would be moved each week?

The key questions in the process selection task are: (I) How will the product/service be priced? (II) How much variety will be imposed on the process? (III) What is the target market for the product/service? (IV) At what volume will the process need to operate?