February 2016
Intermediate to advanced
480 pages
219h 58m
English
Product-oriented layouts are organized around products or families of similar high-volume, low-variety products. Repetitive production and continuous production, which are discussed in Chapter 7, use product layouts. The assumptions are that:
Volume is adequate for high equipment utilization
Product demand is stable enough to justify high investment in specialized equipment
Product is standardized or approaching a phase of its life cycle that justifies investment in specialized equipment
Supplies of raw materials and components are adequate and of uniform quality (adequately standardized) to ensure that they will work with the specialized equipment
LO 9.7 Define product-oriented layout
Two types of ...