Layout Planning Chapter Key Concepts

Chapter 10: Layout Planning
Multiple Choice
1. Which of the following is not a resource that might not be included in deciding a facility
layout?
a) desk
b) work center
c) telephone switch
d) work center
e) person
Ans: c
Section Ref: What is Layout Planning?
Level: moderate
2. Which of the following may not be a result of a poor layout?

a) wasted time
b) wasted energy
c) confusion
d) poor communication
d) increased flow of information
Ans: e
Level: easy
3. Intermittent operations are seen in organizations that produce:

a) a small variety of different products
b) high volumes of a few standard products
c) a large variety of different products
d) a large volume of many standardized products
e) assembly line manufacturing
Ans: c
Level: easy
4. Which of the following is not one of the four basic layout types?
a) inverted
b) hybrid
c) process
d) fixed position
e) product
Ans: a
Section Ref: Types of Layouts
Level: easy
5. The challenge in process layouts is to arrange resources to maximize _____ and minimize
____
a) movement, effectiveness
b) effectiveness, efficiency
c) efficiency, waste of movement
d) efficiency, effectiveness
e) efficiency, labor cost
Ans: c
Level: moderate
6. A company with a pure continuous processing system is most likely to use which layout type?
a) inverted
b) hybrid
c) process
d) fixed position
e) product
Ans: e
Level: moderate
7. Process layouts have

a) less automation
b) more automation
c) fewer employees
d) more cycle time
e) less cycle time
Ans: a
Level: easy
8. A job shop is most likely to use which layout type?
a) inverted
b) hybrid
c) process
d) fixed position
e) product
Ans: c
Level: moderate
9. A hospital is an example of which layout type?

a) inverted
b) hybrid
c) process
d) fixed position
e) product
Ans: c
Level: moderate
10. A grocery store is most like which of the following layout types?
a) inverted
b) circular
c) process
d) fixed position
e) product
Ans: c
Level: moderate
11. A university is an example of which layout type?

a) inverted
b) hybrid
c) process
d) fixed position
e) product
Ans: c
Level: moderate
12. Which of the following is least like a process layout?

a) job shop
b) automobile plant
c) hospital
d) university
e) grocery store
Ans: b
Level: moderate
13. Which of the following is more like a product layout as compared to a process layout?
a) Resources used are general purpose.
b) Facilities are less capital intensive.
c) Processing rates are slower.
d) Space requirements for inventory storage are lower.
e) Scheduling resources is more challenging.
Ans: d
Level: moderate
a) Resources used are specialized.
d) Space requirements for inventory storage are higher.
Ans: a
Level: moderate
b) Facilities are more capital intensive.
Ans: b
Level: moderate
c) Processing rates are faster.
Ans: c
Level: moderate
e) Scheduling resources is less challenging.
Ans: e
Level: moderate
c) Material handling costs are lower.
Ans: c
Level: moderate
c) Less skilled workers can be used.
Ans: c
Level: moderate
c) Products cannot be easily added or deleted from the existing product line.
Ans: c
Level: moderate
21. A company with a pure intermittent processing system is most likely to use which layout
type?
a) inverted
b) hybrid
c) process
d) fixed position
e) product
Ans: c
Level: moderate
22. A single-line cafeteria is an example of which layout type?

a) inverted
b) disjointed
c) process
d) fixed position
e) product
Ans: e
Level: moderate
23. A car wash is an example of which layout type?

a) inverted
b) hybrid
c) process
d) fixed position
e) product
Ans: e
Level: moderate
24. A high-volume paper mill is an example of which layout type?

a) inverted
b) circular
c) process
d) fixed position
e) product
Ans: e
Level: moderate
25. Which of the following is least like a product layout?

a) high-volume paper mill
b) automobile plant
c) hospital
d) single-line cafeteria
e) car wash
Ans: c
Level: moderate
26. In a product layout facility the manager must decide

a) employees salary
b) exactly what tasks will not be performed by every workstation
c) exactly what tasks will be performed by every workstation
d) exactly what vacation schedule must be followed
e) general sequence the work must be performed in
Ans: d
Level: easy
27. Which company is widely considered to be the leader of just-in-time production?

a) Ford
b) Timex
c) Gateway
d) Toyota
e) Sony
Ans: d
Section Ref: Designing Process Layouts

Level: moderate
28. A hybrid layout combines

a) fixed and product
b) fixed and process
c) inverted and product
d) services and manufacturing
e) process and product
Ans: e
Level: moderate
29. A wheat farm is an example of which layout type?

a) inverted
b) hybrid
c) process
d) fixed position
e) product
Ans: d
Level: moderate
30. Shipbuilding is an example of which layout type?

a) inverted
b) hybrid
c) process
d) fixed position
e) product
Ans: d
Level: moderate
31. Building construction is an example of which layout type?

a) inverted
b) hybrid
c) process
d) fixed position
e) product
Ans: d
Level: moderate
32. Bridge construction is an example of which layout type?

a) inverted
b) hybrid
c) process
d) fixed position
e) product
Ans: d
Level: moderate
33. Which of the following is least like a fixed-position layout?

a) farm
b) shipbuilding
c) bridge construction
d) building construction
e) car wash
Ans: e
Level: moderate
34. The first step in designing a layout is

a) identifying the facility
b) gathering information
c) selecting the correct layout software package
d) developing a REL chart
e) developing a from-to matrix
Ans: b
Level: moderate
35. What are the two primary tools used to identify closeness measures during the layout design
process?
a) REL chart and from-to matrix
b) MRP chart and from-to matrix
c) x-bar chart and from-to matrix
d) MRP chart and x-bar chart
e) x-bar chart and REL chart

Ans: a
Level: easy
36. According to the text, the available space of a facility is best seen by using a
a) photograph
b) detailed floor plan
c) architecture software package
d) block plan
e) overview plan
Ans: d
Level: moderate
37. Which layout design tool is primarily based on managers opinions?

a) x-bar chart
b) REL chart
c) MRP chart
d) from-to matrix
e) Gantt chart
Ans: b
Level: easy
38. What is typically used to quantitatively compare the effectiveness of layouts?

a) trial and error
b) process control charts
c) load-distance model
d) mean absolute deviation (MAD)
e) exponential smoothing
Ans: c
Level: easy
39. What is the shortest distance between two locations using north-south and east-west
movements called?
a) Euclidean distance
b) triangulated distance
c) rectilinear distance
d) Socratic distance
e) latitude-longitude (LL) distance
Ans: c
Level: easy
40. Using a relationship chart to develop acceptable layouts is part of a classic layout technique
called
a) Real layout planning
b) systematic layout planning
c) systematic from-to planning
d) systematic layout planning
e) SRP
Ans: d
Level: hard
41. Which type of movement is most like rectilinear?

a) driving cross-country on an interstate highway
b) flying an airplane
c) climbing a mountain
d) driving in New York City
e) riding a roller coaster
Ans: d
Level: moderate
42. How many different layout solutions are possible with 7 departments?
a)
7
b) 720
c) 28
d) 7000
e) 5040
Ans: e
Section Ref: Special Cases of Process Layout
Level: hard
43. How many different layout solutions are possible with 7 departments?
a) 7!
b) 6!
c) 7! 1
d) (1!)(2!)(3!)(4!)(5!)(6!)(7!)
e) 8!
Ans: a
Level: moderate
44. What are two of the most popular facility layout software packages?
a) CONWIP and CRAFT
b) ALDEP and CRAFT
c) CONWIP and MRP
d) ALDEP and MRP
e) ALDEP and CONWIP
Ans: b
Level: easy
45. Which popular facility layout software package works from an REL chart?
a) CONWIP
b) MRP
c) ALDEP
d) LAYOUT
e) CRAFT
Ans: c
Level: moderate
46. Which popular facility layout software package uses a from-to matrix?
a) CONWIP
b) MRP
c) ALDEP
d) LAYOUT
e) CRAFT
Ans: e
Level: moderate
47. Which facility layout software was developed for designing multistory layouts?
a) MULTICRAFT
b) MULTISTORY
c) CRAFT++
d) SPACECRAFT
e) SUPERLAYOUT
Ans: d
Level: hard
48. Warehouse layouts have the key characteristics of process layouts except
a) number of loads is not a design consideration
b) location isnt a major consideration
c) there is movement between the storage areas
d) from trips are the only consideration
e) there is no movement between the storage areas
Ans: e
Level: moderate
49. For the general warehouse layout problem, which department should be located furthest from
the dock?
a) least trips needed
b) most area needed
c) highest ratio of trips needed to area needed
d) smallest ratio of area needed to trips needed
e) smallest ratio of trips needed to area needed
Ans: e
Level: moderate
50. Approximately how much of the U.S. workforce works in an office environment?
a) 10%
b) 25%
c) 50%
d) 75%
e) 90%
Ans: c
Section Ref: Designing Product Layouts
Level: hard
51. Studies mentioned in the text have shown that workers that are in close proximity to each
other are more likely to ________________________________________.
a) catch a cold
b) date each other
c) get on each others nerves
d) have greater understanding, tolerance, and trust for one another
e) play practical jokes on each other
Ans: d
Level: moderate
52. On which key tradeoff does the textbook focus concerning office layouts?
a) cost vs. comfort
b) pictures vs. windows
c) cubes vs. doors
d) network printers vs. individual printers
e) proximity vs. privacy
Ans: e
Level: moderate
53. One important consideration in designing any layout is

a) consistency
b) flexibility
c) equitability
d) uniformity
e) tenure
Ans: b
Level: moderate
54. What is the term for the number of units we wish to produce over a specific period of time?
a) job flow
b) output rate
c) cycle time
d) output flow
e) flow time
Ans: b
Level: easy
55. What is the term for the maximum amount of time each workstation has to complete its
assigned task?
a) output rate
b) task time
c) station time
d) cycle time
e) output time
Ans: d
Level: easy
56. What term tells us how frequently a product is completed?

a) output rate
b) task time
c) station time
d) cycle time
e) output time
Ans: d
Level: moderate
57. Which of the following statements is not true?

a) A perfectly balanced line has no bottlenecks.
b) It might be possible to split a bottleneck task into two smaller non-bottleneck tasks.
c) A production process always has at least one bottleneck.
d) A bottleneck task is the longest task in a process.
e) The bottleneck determines the lowest possible cycle time.
Ans: a
Level: moderate
58. What is the longest task in a process called?

a) obstruction
b) bottleneck
c) blockade
d) hindrance
e) constrainer
Ans: b
Level: easy
59. The bottleneck determines ______________________________.

a) which station has the minimum cycle time
b) the minimum cycle time of the whole process
c) the maximum cycle time of the whole process
d) the point at which a product layout converts to a process layout
e) which station has the maximum output rate
Ans: b
Level: hard
60. Assigning tasks to workstations is known as _____________________________.

a) offsetting the line
b) harmonizing the line
c) stabilizing the line
d) balancing the line
e) counterbalancing the line
Ans: d
Level: moderate
61. The theoretical minimum number of stations is the number of workstations that would be
needed if:
a) all stations were balanced.
b) all task times were the same.
c) the line was 100% efficient.
d) every task had a separate station.
e) the company had no absenteeism.
Ans: c
Level: easy
62. When line balancing, which rule does the textbook suggest for assigning tasks to
workstations?
a) shortest task time
b) first come first served

c) fewest predecessors
d) longest task time
e) most successors
Ans: d
Level: easy
63. Which production line shapes are particularly useful for the sharing of resources?
a) S and U
b) L and O
c) O and S
d) L and S
e) O and U
Ans: e
Section Ref: Group Technology (Cell) Layouts
Level: moderate
64. What is the amount by which the efficiency of a production line falls short of 100%?
a) balance delay
b) efficiency deficiency
c) efficiency delay
d) balance shortfall
e) percentage deficiency
Ans: a
Level: easy
65. What is the term for a system in which the product being worked on is physically attached to
the line and automatically moved to the next station when the cycle time has elapsed?
a) cyclical line
b) paced line
c) autoline
d) continuous line
e) constrained line
Ans: b
Level: easy
66. Group technology creates groupings of products primarily based on what?

a) product cost
b) raw materials requirements
c) similar processing requirements
d) operating characteristics
e) market segmentation
Ans: c
Level: moderate
67. The items listed below are stored in a one-dock warehouse. Which of them should be stored
at the very back (furthest away from the dock)?
Item
A
B
C
D
E
Trips
300
220
72
60
24
Area Needed (blocks)

60
3
1
10
3
a) A
b) B
c) C
d) D
e) E
Ans: a
Response: See pages 357-358 (Trip ratio = trips/area needed: A = 300/60 = 5; B= 220/3 = 73.3;
C = 72/1 = 72; D = 60/10 = 6; E = 24/3 = 8: A lowest trip ratio store furthest from dock)
Level: moderate
68. Consider a production line that has a station with two machines, and each unit produced at
the station needs to be processed by both of the machines. (A unit cannot be worked on by both
machines simultaneously.) Each machine has a production capacity of 4 units per hour. What is
the lowest possible cycle time of the station?
a) 4 minutes per unit
b) 8 minutes per unit
c) 7.5 minutes per unit
d) 30 minutes per unit
e) 15 minutes per unit
Ans: e
Level: hard
69. Which of the following is true?

a) A line with a lower cycle time has greater output than one with a higher cycle time.
b) A line with a higher cycle time has greater output than one with a lower cycle time.
c) Cycle time is unrelated to output rate.
d) A line must be arranged such that capacity grows with each successive station.
e) Cycle time cannot be greater than the task time of the bottleneck.
Ans: a
Level: moderate
at the very back (furthest away from the dock)?
Item
Star Trek videos
Ballet videos
Tom Cruise videos
The Simpsons videos
Operations Management videos
2000
5
200
Trips Area Needed (blocks)

5
1
2
1000
2
500
1
a) Star Trek videos

b) ballet videos
c) Tom Cruise videos
d) The Simpsons videos
e) operations management videos
Ans: b
Level: moderate
at the very front (closest to the dock)?
Item
A
B
C
D
E
a) A
b) B
c) C
d) D
e) E
Ans: c
Trips
300
220
74
60
24

60
3
1
10
3

Level: moderate
at the very front (closest to the dock)?
Item
Star Trek videos
Ballet videos
Tom Cruise videos
The Simpsons videos
Operations Management videos
2000
5
200
Trips Area Needed (blocks)

5
1
2
1000
2
500
3
a) Star Trek videos

b) ballet videos
c) Tom Cruise videos
d) The Simpsons videos
e) operations management videos
Ans: d
Level: Moderate
73. Which of the following production line shapes is least likely to be found in a factory?
a) N
b) S
c) U
d) O
e) L
Ans: a
Level: hard
74. What is Wal-Marts primary consideration for its store layout decision regarding the number
and size of aisles in its stores?
a) predictability
b) comfort
c) ease of navigation through the store
d) customer exposure to merchandise
e) inventory control
Ans: d
Level: hard
75. The companys ______ dictates type of layout the company will have.
a) location
b) process
c) union agreements
d) HR policies
e) market share
Ans: b
Section Ref: Facility Layout Within OM: How it all Fits Together
Level: moderate
True/False
1. An assembly line is an example of an intermittent processing system.

Ans: False
Level: easy
2. A process layout is seen in companies with continuous processing systems.

Ans: False
Level: easy
3. A hospital is an example of process layout.

Ans: True
Level: moderate
4. As compared to a process layout, a product layout generally requires less skilled workers.
Ans: True
Level: moderate
5. In general, scheduling resources is less challenging under a process layout than it would be
under a product layout.
Ans: False
Level: moderate
6. At Wal-Mart, to maximize customer comfort and enjoyment, layouts are designed with a
limited number of aisles, but each of which is very wide, rather than with multiple but narrow
aisles.
Ans: False
Level: hard
7. In product layouts, the material moves continuously and uniformly through a series of
workstations until the product is completed.
Ans: True
Level: easy
8. Load-distance calculations are very concerned with the direction of the move.
Ans: False
Level: moderate
9. Maximizing worker proximity minimizes privacy issues.

Ans: False
Level: moderate
10. In a fixed position layout, resources are fixed in various locations and the products move
from one resource location to the next.
Ans: False
Level: easy
11. A predecessor can be worked in parallel with a successor.

Ans: False
Level: easy
12. Managers use a from-to matrix for facility layout design to identify both the number of trips
and the direction of those trips.
Ans: False
Level: moderate
13. Typically, an REL chart is more subjective than a from-to matrix.

Ans: True
Level: moderate
14. An REL chart can contain ratings of both desirability of closeness and undesirability of
closeness.
Ans: True
Level: moderate
15. The shortest distance between two locations is called rectilinear distance.
Ans: False
Level: moderate
16. When possible, managers should purchase and use CRAFT because it gives an optimal
solution to the facility layout problem.
Ans: False
Level: moderate
17. A heuristic solution always provides the best possible answer.

Ans: False
Level: moderate
18. For the general warehouse layout problem the department with the highest ratio of trips to
areas needed should be located closest to the dock.
Ans: True
Level: moderate
19. The cycle time of a production line is based on the workstation with the highest potential
output rate.
Ans: False
Level: moderate
20. If a process has a faster cycle time, then its cycle time has decreased.
Ans: True
Level: moderate
21. As the cycle time of a process decreases, its output also decreases.
Ans: False
Level: moderate
22. The theoretical minimum number of stations results in the production of daily requirements
when no inefficiency exists.
Ans: True
Level: moderate
23. Group Technology has the advantage of bringing the efficiencies of a process layout to a
product layout environment.
Ans: False
Section Ref: Group Technology Layouts
Level: hard
24. A product layout can look like an S-curve.

Ans: True
Level: moderate
25. Marketing is not highly affected by layout planning.

Ans: False
Section Ref: Facility Layout Across the Organization
Level: easy
Essay
1. What are the two broad categories of operating systems?

Ans: intermittent processing systems and continuous processing systems
Level: easy
2. What are the four basic layout types?

Ans: process, product, fixed position, and hybrid
Level: easy
3. How does material move in a product layout?
Ans:
continuously and uniformly through a series of workstations until the product is
completed
Level: moderate
4. What is another name for cell layout?

Ans: group technology
Level: easy
5. What is the term for a layout in which the product cannot be moved due to its size, and all the
resources have to come to the production site?
Ans: fixed-position layout
Level: easy
6. What are the three steps in designing process layouts?

Ans: (1) gather information, (2) develop a block plan or schematic of the layout, (3) develop a
detailed layout
Level: easy
7. What is a table that gives the number of trips or units of product moved between any pair of
departments called?
Ans: from-to matrix
Level: easy
8. What is a table that reflects opinions of managers with regard to the importance of having any
two departments close together called?
Ans: REL chart
Level: easy
9. What is the maximum amount of time that each workstation has to complete its assigned task
called?
Ans: cycle time
Level: easy
10. Compare the minimum versus maximum cycle time of a process.

Ans:
The minimum cycle time is equal to the bottleneck, or longest, task. The maximum cycle
time is equal to the sum of the task times in the whole process. The minimum and
maximum cycle times are important as they establish the range of output for the production
line.
Level: hard
11. Describe what group technology is.

Ans: Group technology is the process of creating groupings of products based on similar
processing requirements.
Section Ref: Group Technology (cell) Layouts
Level: moderate
12. Discuss why facility layout is important to a supply chain

Ans: Arranging layouts for efficient delivery of materials to move directly to the production line
is important. Arranging the facility layout to be linked to inbound and outbound shipments can
greatly enhance the smooth flow of products throughout the supply chain.
Section Ref: The Supply Chain Link
Level: moderate
Problems
1. Consider the following layout of departments.

A
Compute the ld score given the following from-to matrix.
Trips Between Departments

A B C D E F
12 45 3 14 29
16 72 5 42
30 20 90
10 4
12
Department
A
B
C
D
E
F
Answer: 743
Level: moderate
2. Consider the following two layouts of departments.

Layout 1
D
Layout 2
C
Compute the ld score for each and choose the best, given the following from-to matrix.
Department
A
B
C
D
E
Trips Between Departments

A B C D E
18 8 3 4
16 22 5
50 20
90
Answer: layout 1 = 344, layout 2 = 316, layout 2 is better

Level: hard
3. A firm has four departments to locate in the following space.
Department A has a daily average of 20, 10, and 60 trips to Departments B, C, and D,
respectively; Department B has a daily average of 25 and 30 trips to Departments C and D,
respectively; and Department C has a daily average of 50 trips to Department D. While there are
24 different layout combinations, only three are effectively different (in terms of distances
between departments). Calculate the ld score for the three different combinations and choose the
best.
Ans: A diagonal from B = 265, A diagonal from C = 235, A diagonal from D = 280, best layout
is A diagonal from C
Level: hard
4. The items listed below are stored in a one-dock warehouse. Rank them in order from closest
to the dock to furthest away.
Item
A
B
C
D
E
Trips
200
100
78
60
35

5
4
3
2
1
Ans: A-E-D-C-B
Level: moderate
5. The items listed below are stored in a one-dock warehouse. Rank them in order from closest
to the dock to furthest away.
Item
Golf balls
Basketballs
Ballet shoes
Aerobics tapes
Volleyballs
Trips
300
420
10
20
360

1
3
1
1
3
Ans: golf balls-basketballs-volleyballs-aerobics tapes-ballet shoes

Level: moderate
6. If a production line produces 800 units per 8-hour workday, what is the cycle time in minutes?
Ans: 0.6 minutes
Level: moderate
7. Suppose that assembly of a product involves three different tasks taking 10 seconds, 20
seconds, and 30 seconds, respectively. What is the maximum possible output per hour of the
system?
Ans: 120
Level: moderate
8. Maxines cookie factory bottleneck is the oven. It takes 45 seconds to cook a batch of 144
cookies. What is the maximum number of cookies that Maxine can produce every hour?
Ans: 11,520
Level: moderate
9. Maxine has identified the following process times and desired output. What is the theoretical
minimum number of work stations?
mix dough
90 sec
desired output
30 batches/hour
shape cookie
50 sec
cook
45 sec
cool
75 sec
Ans: 3
Level: moderate
10. Suppose that assembly of a product involves four different tasks taking 40 seconds, 20
seconds, 30 seconds, and 80 seconds, respectively. What is the theoretical minimum number of
stations?
Ans: 3
Level: moderate
11. Suppose that an assembly line consists of two stations. Station 1 involves three tasks, taking
40 seconds, 20 seconds, and 30 seconds, respectively. Station 2 involves one task that takes 80
seconds. Compute the efficiency and balance delay of the assembly line.
Ans: efficiency = 94.4%, balance delay = 5.6%
Level: moderate
12. The following table provides tasks on an assembly line, along with their predecessors and
task times.
Task
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
Immediate
Predecessor
None
None
A, B
B
C
D, E
E
Time (seconds)
45
30
48
20
10
20
40
If desired output is 75 units per hour, compute (a) the associated cycle time, (b) the assignment
of tasks to stations using the longest task time rule, and (c) the efficiency of your solution.
Ans: (a) = 48 seconds
(b) =
Workstation Eligible Selected Time
1
A, B
A
45
3
2
B
B
30
18
3
C, D
C
48
0
4
D, E
D
20
28
E
E
10
18
5
F, G
G
40
8
6
G
F
20
28
(c) = 73.96%
Section Ref: Facility Layout Across the Organization
Level: hard
Idle
Short Answer
1. Managers' opinions about the importance of paired departments being near each other are
recorded in ________________________
Ans: REL charts.
Difficulty: moderate
2. The number of trips or products moved between pairs of departments is recorded in a

________________________
Ans: from-to matrix

3. The ________________________ distance between two locations on north-south and eastwest axes is used in the ________________________ model.
Ans: rectilinear, load-distance
Difficulty: hard
4. The load-distance model tells us which departments should be closest to each other by
________________________
Ans: minimizing the distance large numbers of products move.
Difficulty: hard
5. While traditional walls and doors provide privacy, they reduce ________________________
and opportunities for _______________________ .
Ans: proximity, team work
6. Cycle time assumes that each workstation has ________________________ time to work on a
product.
Ans: the same
Difficulty: hard
7. Since there are 3600 seconds per hour, a process that is expected to produce 40 units per hour
has a cycle time of ________________________
Ans: 90 seconds / unit
Difficulty: hard
8. Bottlenecks determines determine maximum output because it ________________________

Ans: has the minimum cycle time.
9. What is the formula for the theoretical minimum number of work stations?
________________________
Ans: t/NC
Difficulty:
10. What is the formula efficiency? ________________________

Ans: Efficiency(%) = t/NC(100)
11. A single-model line is _______ to produce only ______ version of a product.

Ans: designed, one
Level: moderate
12. Facility layout decisions are ______ with a number of other _____ ____.
Ans: linked, operations decisions.
Section Ref: Facility Layout Within OM: How it All Fits Together
Level: moderate

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Chapter 10: Layout Planning

2. Which of the following may not be a result of a poor layout?

3. Intermittent operations are seen in organizations that produce:

7. Process layouts have

8. A job shop is most likely to use which layout type?

9. A hospital is an example of which layout type?

11. A university is an example of which layout type?

12. Which of the following is least like a process layout?

22. A single-line cafeteria is an example of which layout type?

23. A car wash is an example of which layout type?

24. A high-volume paper mill is an example of which layout type?

25. Which of the following is least like a product layout?

26. In a product layout facility the manager must decide

27. Which company is widely considered to be the leader of just-in-time production?

Section Ref: Designing Process Layouts

28. A hybrid layout combines

29. A wheat farm is an example of which layout type?

30. Shipbuilding is an example of which layout type?

31. Building construction is an example of which layout type?

32. Bridge construction is an example of which layout type?

33. Which of the following is least like a fixed-position layout?

34. The first step in designing a layout is

e) x-bar chart and REL chart

37. Which layout design tool is primarily based on managers opinions?

38. What is typically used to quantitatively compare the effectiveness of layouts?

41. Which type of movement is most like rectilinear?

53. One important consideration in designing any layout is

56. What term tells us how frequently a product is completed?

57. Which of the following statements is not true?

58. What is the longest task in a process called?

59. The bottleneck determines ______________________________.

60. Assigning tasks to workstations is known as _____________________________.

b) first come first served

66. Group technology creates groupings of products primarily based on what?

Area Needed (blocks)

69. Which of the following is true?

Trips Area Needed (blocks)

a) Star Trek videos

Area Needed (blocks)

Section Ref: Special Cases of Process Layout

Trips Area Needed (blocks)

a) Star Trek videos

1. An assembly line is an example of an intermittent processing system.

2. A process layout is seen in companies with continuous processing systems.

3. A hospital is an example of process layout.

9. Maximizing worker proximity minimizes privacy issues.

11. A predecessor can be worked in parallel with a successor.

13. Typically, an REL chart is more subjective than a from-to matrix.

17. A heuristic solution always provides the best possible answer.

24. A product layout can look like an S-curve.

25. Marketing is not highly affected by layout planning.

1. What are the two broad categories of operating systems?

2. What are the four basic layout types?

3. How does material move in a product layout?

4. What is another name for cell layout?

6. What are the three steps in designing process layouts?

10. Compare the minimum versus maximum cycle time of a process.

11. Describe what group technology is.

12. Discuss why facility layout is important to a supply chain

1. Consider the following layout of departments.

Compute the ld score given the following from-to matrix.

Trips Between Departments

11. A single-model line is _ to produce only version of a product.