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| Highly Standardized goods and services |
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| Able to handle a wide variety of work |
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| Slow, high cost per unit, complex planning and scheduling |
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| Product or service profiling |
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| Linking key product or service requirements to process capabilities |
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| Substitution of machinery that has sensing and control devices that enable it to operate automatically |
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1)Fixed
2)programmable
3)Flexible automation |
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| Computer Aided Manufacturing |
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| The use of computers in process control, ranging from robots to quality control |
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| FMS (Flexible Manufacturing System) |
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| A group of machines including supervisory computer control, automatic material handling and possibly robots designed to handle processing requirements and produce a variety of similar products at a significantly lower unit cost |
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| Layout that uses standardized processing operations to achieve smooth, rapid, high-volume flow, only minor variations in the product or service being produced. |
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| Product Layout Advantages |
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1)High rate of output
2)Low unit cost
3)labor specialization |
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1)Layouts that can handle varied processing requirements
2)Features departments or other functional groupings in which similar activities are performed. |
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| Layout in which the product or project remains stationary, and workers, materials, and equipment are moved as needed |
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Layout in which workstations are grouped into a cell that can process items that have similar processing requirements.
Groupings are determined by the operations needed to perform the work for a set of similar items, part families, that require similar processing (mini product layouts) |
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Degree of customer contact
Degree of customization
(not considered)Cost minimization and customer flow |
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| The process of assigning tasks to workstations in such a way that the workstations have approximately equal time requirements |
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