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Operations Management: Sustainability and Supply Chain Management, Twelfth Edition
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Operations Management: Sustainability and Supply Chain Management, Twelfth Edition

by Jay Heizer, Barry Render, Chuck Munson
February 2016
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
480 pages
219h 58m
English
Pearson
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Repetitive and Product-Oriented Layout

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:

  1. Volume is adequate for high equipment utilization

  2. Product demand is stable enough to justify high investment in specialized equipment

  3. Product is standardized or approaching a phase of its life cycle that justifies investment in specialized equipment

  4. Supplies of raw materials and components are adequate and of uniform quality (­adequately standardized) to ensure that they will work with the specialized equipment

  1. LO 9.7 Define product-oriented layout

Two types of ...

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ISBN: 9780134422404