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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 $.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?

A)  $2,800
B)  $3,150
C)  $3,500
D)  $4,000
E)  $4,500

F) A) and E)
G) C) and D)

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Which one of the following is not common to product layouts?

A)  a high rate of output
B)  specialization of labor
C)  low unit costs
D)  ability to adjust to changes in demand
E)  special-purpose technology

F) D) and E)
G) B) and C)

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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 $.50 per load meter moved. An analyst has prepared the following flow and distance matrices: What is the distance (in meters) from area III to area I of this new facility?

Which term is most closely associated with cellular manufacturing?

The estimation of costs is generally most difficult when the ___________ process has been chosen.

A group of machines including supervisory computer control, automatic material handling, and possibly robots is called:

Heuristic rules for line balancing will guarantee an optimal solution.

Right-sized equipment tends to be larger than equipment used in traditional process layouts.

A service organization such as a hospital is likely to use a(n) ________ layout because of variability in customer processing requirements.

For a production line, daily capacity can be determined by dividing the daily operating time by the line's cycle time.

Among the benefits claimed for cellular manufacturing are less material handling and reduced setup time.

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 $.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?

Group technology is closely connected to cellular manufacturing.

The process of assigning tasks to workstations in such a way that the workstations have approximately equal time requirements is called:

What is it about job shops that make them appropriate for products in the introductory phase of their life cycle?

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:

A company is designing a product layout for a new product. It plans to use this production line eight hours a day in order to meet projected demand of 480 units per day. The tasks necessary to produce this product are: If the company wants the output rate to be equal to demand, what is the last task performed at the second workstation if tasks are assigned in order of the most following tasks?

Which closeness rating reflects the undesirability of having two departments located near each other?

A manufacturing cell allows the production of a wide range of very different products.