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For a service operation to be in the right place, it usually means being in a location that is convenient and easily accessible.

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The load-distance technique evaluates the different locations based on the load and transport distance.

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Similar activities are grouped together in departments or work centres according to the function with a ___ layout.

Design a simple product layout for efficiency (balance a basic assembly line).

An assembly line consists of three workstations (WS) with each station's activity time as shown. The flow time for items on this line would be

Briefly compare the storage and movement of material in a process layout and in a product layout.

The cost and availability of labour is an important factor in a location decision.

A service facility is usually the largest and most expensive type of facility.

The maximum amount of time a product spends at any workstation is known as the bottleneck time.

The major advantage of a process layout over a product layout is efficiency.

Which of the following is not an "area" of advantage of cellular layouts?

Minimizing material handling cost is an important objective for a process layout.

Equipment utilization is typically very high in processes with a fixed-position layout.

Which one of the following factors is not important to the design and operation of a mixed-model assembly line?

Block diagramming is a design tool for process layouts that takes into account the number of adjacent and non-adjacent moves.

How much to increase capacity depends on all of the following except

Inadequate infrastructure, at a given location, increases the supply chain costs and decreases the customer service.

The time to complete a task in a mixed-model assembly line can vary from model to model.

The efficiency of a flexible manufacturing system (FMS) comes from reductions in setup and waiting times.

Common location incentives include all of the following except