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What is a key advantage of both types of lines being balanced?
What is a key advantage of both types of lines being balanced?
- Increased work-in-process inventories
- Difficult training and supervision
- Same time to perform work at each station (correct)
- High material handling costs
What type of layout is organized around products or families of similar high-volume, low-variety products?
What type of layout is organized around products or families of similar high-volume, low-variety products?
- Product-oriented layout (correct)
- Customer-oriented layout
- Process-oriented layout
- Service-oriented layout
What is a disadvantage of a product-oriented layout?
What is a disadvantage of a product-oriented layout?
- Work stoppage at any point has no impact
- Lack of flexibility in product or production rates (correct)
- High volume is not required
- Flexibility in product or production rates is high
What is a characteristic of a fabrication line in a product-oriented layout?
What is a characteristic of a fabrication line in a product-oriented layout?
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How can bottleneck operations be identified in work cells?
How can bottleneck operations be identified in work cells?
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