BMGT Flashcards

1
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is the key component in designing a system

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Capacity

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2
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the upper limit or ceiling on the load that an operating unit can handle

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Capacity

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3
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Goal of strategic capacity planning

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long term supply capabilities = predicted level of long term demand

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4
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Key questions in capacity planning

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  1. What kind of capacity is needed?
  2. How much is needed to match demand?
  3. When is it needed?
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5
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The maximum output rate or service capacity an operation, process, or facility is designed for

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Design Capacity

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6
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Design capacity minus allowances such as personal time and maintenance

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Effective Capacity

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7
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to minimize the gap between design capacity and effective capacity

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Objecive

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8
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the capability of an organization to produce an item at an acceptable profit

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Manufacturability

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9
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the capability of an organization to provide a service at an acceptable cost or profit

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Serviceability

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10
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A strategy of producing basically standardized goods or services, but incorporating some degree of customization in the final product or service

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Mass Customization

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11
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The process of producing, but not quite completing, a product or service until customer preferences are known

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Delayed Differentiation

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12
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Extent to which there is an absence of variety in a product, service, or process

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Standardization

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13
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Products are made in large quantities of identical items

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Standardization

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14
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Every customer or item processed receives essentially the same service

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Standardization

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15
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Demand, development and production cost, potential profit, technical analysis, capacity req., skills needed, fit with mission.

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Feasibility Analysis

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16
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A form of standardization in which component parts are grouped into modules that are easily replaced or interchanged

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Modular Design

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17
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PHASES IN PRODUCTS DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT

Demand, development and production cost, potential profit, technical analysis, capacity req., skills needed, fit with mission.

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Feasibility Analysis

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18
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PHASES IN PRODUCTS DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT

Weight alternative processes in terms of cost, resources, profit, quality

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Process Specifications

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19
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PHASES IN PRODUCTS DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT

Changes are made or project is abandoned

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Design Review

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20
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PHASES IN PRODUCTS DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT

Promotion

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Product Introduction

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21
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PHASES IN PRODUCTS DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT

What’s needed to meet customer wants

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Product Specifications

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22
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PHASES IN PRODUCTS DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT

Few units are made to find problems with the product or process

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Prototype Development

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23
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PHASES IN PRODUCTS DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT

Determine customer acceptance. If unsuccessful return to design-review

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Market Test

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24
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PHASES IN PRODUCTS DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT

Based on feedback changes may be made

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Follow-up Evaluation

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25
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Bringing design and manufacturing engineers together early in the design phase

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Concurrent Engineering

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26
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The designing of products that are compatible with an organization’s abilities

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Design for Manufacturing

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27
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ease of fabrication and/or assembly

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Manufacturability

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28
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it has important implication for cost, productivity and quality

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Manufacturability

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29
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When products have a high degree of similarity in features and components, a part can be used in multiple products

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Component Commonality

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30
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Something that is done to, or for, a customer

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Service

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31
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The facilities, processes , and skills need to provide a service

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Service Delivery System

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32
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The combination of goods and services provided to a customer

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Product Bundle

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33
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The physical resources needed to perform the service, accompanying goods, and the explicit (core features) and implicit (ancillary features) services included

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Service Package

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34
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Begins with a choice of service strategy, which determines the nature and focus of the service, and the target market

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Service Design

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35
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A method used in service design to describe and analyze a proposed service

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Service Blueprint

36
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5 Design Consideration

LECHE

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Legal
Ethics
Cultural Factor
Human Factor
Environmental Factor

37
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Dismantling and inspecting a competitors product to discover product improvements.

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Reverse Engineering

38
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The key issues in capacity planning

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what kind of capacity is needed, how much is needed, and when it is needed.

39
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_______________ can adversely affect the overall capacity of a system.

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One or more constraints

40
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Capacity increases can only be achieved by

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loosening those constraints

41
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Degree to which the system can be adjusted to changes in processing requirements

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Process Flexibility

42
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Linking key product or service requirements to process capabilities

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Product and Service Profiling

43
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The mix of equipment and labor that will be used by the organization

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Capital Intensity

44
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Refers to deciding on the way production of goods or services will be organized

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Process Selection

45
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One principle of particular interest here is waste reduction

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Lean Process Design

46
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variance reduction in workload over the entire process to achieve level production and thereby improve process flow

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Lean Process Design

47
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Reduction of steps or set of activities for a product or service to be completed

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Lean Process Design

48
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Machinery that has sensing and control devices that enable it to operate automatically.

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Automation

49
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The discovery and development of new or improved products, services, or processes for producing or providing them

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Technology Innovation

50
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The application of scientific discoveries to the development and improvement of products and services and operations processes.

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Technology

51
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Process choice is

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demand driven

52
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is a function of expected demand volume and the degree of customization that will be needed

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Process Type

53
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is critical in a product-focused system, whereas managing is critical in a process focused system.

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Process Design

54
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refers to the configuration of departments, work centers, and equipment, with particular emphasis on movement of work (customers or materials) through the system

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Facility Layout

55
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A layout that uses standardized processing operations to achieve smooth, rapid, high volume flow

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Product Layout

56
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Layout that can handle varied processing requirements

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Process Layout

57
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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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Fixed Position Layout

58
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A layout that combines these three basic layout types

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Combination Layout

59
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Process of assigning asks to workstations in such a way that the workstations have approximately equal time requirements

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Line Balancing

60
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The maximum time allowed t each workstation to complete its set of tasks on a unit

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Cycle Time

61
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Pertains to product as well as process design

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Rebust Design

62
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Increases designer’s productivity

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Computer Aided Design

63
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Directly provides information to manufacturing (dimensions. Material-BOM)

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Computer Aided Design

64
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Perform analysis: engineering, costs

Shortens time-to-market

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Computer Aided Design

65
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Design that focuses on reducing the number of parts in a product and on assembly methods and sequence

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Design for Assembly

66
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The essence of an organization is

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the goods and services it offers

67
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Reasons for and Design and Redesign

ESP CCT

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Economic
Social Demographic
Political, Liability or Legal
Competitive
Cost or Availability
Technological

68
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IDEA GENERATION - SUPPLY CHAIN BASED

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Supplier > Employees > Distributor > Customer

69
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IDEA GENERATION - COMPETITOR BASED

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Studying how competitors operates and its product and services

Reverse Engineering

70
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8 DETERMINANTS OF EFFECTIVE CAPACITY

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Facilities
Product and Service Factor
Process Factor
Human Factor
Policy Factor
Operational Factor
Supply Chain
External Factor

71
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DETERMINANTS OF EFFECTIVE CAPACITY

Uniformity has higher output rate

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Product and Service Factor

72
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DETERMINANTS OF EFFECTIVE CAPACITY

size and provision for expansion

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Facilities

73
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DETERMINANTS OF EFFECTIVE CAPACITY

Transportation cost, labor supply, distance to market, energy source etc

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Facilities

74
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DETERMINANTS OF EFFECTIVE CAPACITY

Ouput that doesn’t meet the standards will have a slower rate of ouput

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Process Factor

75
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An operation in a sequence of operations whose capacity is lower than that of the other operations.

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Bottleneck

76
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T or F

Your capacity is as good as the bottleneck

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True

77
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is something that limits the performance of a process or system in achieving its goals.

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Constraint

78
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Types of Selections

Very High Flexibility; Low or very low volume

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Job Shop

79
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Types of Selections

repair shop and emergency room

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Job Shop

80
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Types of Selections

Moderate Flexibility; Moderate Volume

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Batch

81
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Types of Selections

commercial bakery and classroom lecture

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Batch

82
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Types of Selections

Low Flexibility and High Volume

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Repetitive

83
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Types of Selections

Assembly line and automatic car wash

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Repetitive

84
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Types of Selections

Very Low Flexibility; Very High Volume

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Continuous

85
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Types of Selections

Petroleum refining and water treatment

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Continuous

86
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Objective of Layout Design

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facilitate smooth flow of work, material, and information through the system.