Exam 8: Process Selection and Facility Layout

The type of layout which features departments or other functional groupings in which similar activities are performed is:

Balance delay is another name for the percentage of idle time in a product layout.

Product layouts typically achieve high utilization of labor and equipment.

The main issue in the design of process layouts for service operations concerns the relative positioning of:

Heuristic rules are usually applied when:

An operations strategy for process selection should recognize that:

What is it about repetitive processes that make them appropriate for products in the maturity phase of their life cycle?

Which of the following is not a process type commonly considered in making products or delivering services?

In an environment in which demand is both substantial and stable, __________ technology tends to be the best choice.

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 total flow (loads per week) between department Y and department Z?

The maker of the world-famous Chocolate Chip Cookies needs to design a product layout for a new product, Mint Chocolate Chip. The company plans to use this new production line eight hours a day in order to meet projected demand of 1,440 cases per day. The following table describes the tasks involved in the production of a case of Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies. For output to equal projected demand, what will be the first task performed at the third workstation of the production line which uses the minimum number of stations?

As a general rule, continuous processing systems produce products with very little variety.