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Facility Layout
McGraw-Hill/Irwin
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Y o u should be able to:
1. Explain the strategic importance of process selection
2. Describe the influence that process selection has on the
organization
3. Compare the basic processing types
4. Explain the need for management of technology
5. List some reasons for redesign of layouts
6. Describe the basic layout types, and the main advantages and
disadvantages of each
7. Solve simple line-balancing problems
8. Develop simple process layouts
Raw materials
Station Station Station Station Finished
or customer item
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Student Slides
Used for Intermittent 6-9
processing Job
F i x e d Position layout
Layout in which the product or project remains
stationary, and workers, materials, and equipment are
moved as needed