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In cellular manufacturing, machines and equipment are grouped by type (e.g., all grinders are grouped into a cell).

A) True
B) False

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A company needs to rebalance a product layout for producing new plastic license plates. They plan to use the assembly line 6 hours in order to meet projected demand of 2,160 license plates each day. The following table describes the tasks involved in the production of this product: Without regard to projected demand, what is the minimum possible cycle time for this assembly line?

A) 0 seconds
B) 3 seconds
C) 9 seconds
D) 10 seconds
E) 28 seconds

F) A) and E)
G) All of the above

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A company has an assembly line with 34 tasks. The longest task is 4.7 minutes and the total time for all tasks is 92 minutes. The line will operate for 615 minutes per day.What is the minimum cycle time?

The percentage of idle time in an assembly line is called cycle time.

A cafeteria line would be an example of a process-focused layout.

QRS Corp. is designing a product layout for a new product. They plan to use this production line 10 hours a day in order to meet forecasted demand of 900 units per day. The following table describes the tasks necessary to produce this product: For output to equal forecasted demand, what will be the second task performed at the second workstation of the production line that uses the fewest number of stations?

Repetitive processing systems repetitively rotate production through small batches of a variety of products.

Which term is most closely associated with cellular manufacturing?

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

Which type of processing system tends to produce the most product variety?

For a production line, daily capacity can be determined by dividing the daily operating time by the line's cycle time.

Which one of the following is not common to product layouts?

A process layout is more susceptible to shutdowns caused by equipment breakdowns than a product layout.

Which phrase most closely describes flexible manufacturing systems?

If a line is balanced with 80 percent efficiency, the "balance delay" will be

A group of machines including supervisory computer control, automatic material handling, and possibly robots is called

Right-sized equipment tends to be larger than equipment used in traditional process layouts.