What is the primary objective of a layout strategy?
Explanation
The fundamental goal of any layout strategy is to align the physical arrangement of a facility with the firm's broader competitive strategy, ensuring it supports objectives like cost, differentiation, or response.
Other questions
Which type of layout is designed to deal with low-volume, high-variety production?
According to the text, what is the main objective of a retail layout?
What are fees that manufacturers pay to retailers to get their goods on the shelf called?
The physical surroundings in which a service is delivered and how they affect customers and employees is known as what?
What is the primary objective of a warehouse layout?
A process-oriented layout for the Walters Company involves six departments, each 20x20 feet, in a building that is 60 feet long and 40 feet wide. If moving a load between adjacent departments costs 1 dollar and between nonadjacent departments costs 2 dollars, what is the cost for a flow of 100 loads per week between the Assembly department and the Machine Shop department if they are nonadjacent?
What is the term for a layout that addresses the requirements of large, bulky projects like ships and buildings, where the product remains stationary?
A work cell for producing auto mirrors is scheduled for an 8-hour day and is expected to deliver 600 mirrors daily. What is the takt time for this work cell?
An assembly line for a wing component has a total task time of 65 minutes. If the daily production schedule requires 40 units and there are 480 productive minutes of work available per day, what is the theoretical minimum number of workstations?
Which layout strategy arranges machinery and equipment to focus on the production of a single product or a group of related products?
The practice of avoiding placing materials in storage by processing them as they are received is known as:
An assembly line is balanced with 6 workstations. The total task time to produce one unit is 65 minutes, and the largest assigned cycle time is 12 minutes. What is the efficiency of this line balance?
Which of these is NOT one of the three factors that complicate a fixed-position layout?
What is the main distinction of an office layout compared to other layout types?
A useful tool for office layout analysis that indicates the relative importance of having different departments or personnel near each other is called a:
In a retail supermarket layout, where are high-draw items like dairy and bread typically located?
What is a focused work center?
In assembly-line balancing, what is the term for the maximum time that a product is allowed at each workstation?
Which of the following is NOT an advantage of a work cell layout?
Which of the following is a key requirement for a warehouse to successfully use a random stocking system?
Which of the following is an advantage of a product-oriented layout?
A hotel housekeeper, Alison Harvey, was observed to have an average time of 1.7 minutes to vacuum a floor, with a performance rating of 120 percent. The hotel uses a 10 percent allowance factor. What is the standard time for vacuuming a floor?
In the context of servicescapes, what do 'signs, symbols, and artifacts' refer to?
What are the two requirements for successful cross-docking?
What is the primary reason Canon's copier factories in Japan switched from assembly lines to work cells?
A work cell must produce one unit every 48 seconds to meet customer demand (takt time). The total operation time required to produce one unit is 140 seconds. How many workers are required for the cell?
What are the two types of product-oriented layouts mentioned in the text?
What does a precedence diagram illustrate in the context of assembly-line balancing?
Which of these is NOT one of the five layout heuristics used to assign tasks to workstations in assembly-line balancing?
A problem with a process-oriented layout is that it often has high work-in-process inventories. Why does this occur?
What is the primary trade-off addressed by a warehouse layout?
What layout is McDonald's implementing in its redesigned restaurants, featuring 'linger', 'grab and go', and 'flexible' zones?
For a production process that requires 40 units per day and has 480 minutes of productive time available, what is the cycle time?
Which of the following would NOT be considered an 'ambient condition' in a servicescape?
One of the first steps in designing a process-oriented layout for Walters Company was to construct a matrix showing the flow of parts between departments. What is this matrix called?
What is a major disadvantage of a process-oriented layout?
The objective of assembly-line balancing is to:
According to the text, which layout strategy positions workers, their equipment, and spaces/offices to provide for movement of information?
A U-shaped layout is often used in which type of layout strategy to reduce movement and enhance communication?
In the Walters Company example, after switching departments 1 and 2, the total material handling cost was reduced from 570 dollars to what amount?
What is the key difference between a fabrication line and an assembly line?
What does a work balance chart, like the one used for the mirror production work cell, illustrate?
Which of the following is NOT one of the seven layout strategies discussed in the chapter?
The concept of 'hoteling' in an office layout, as used by Deloitte & Touche, is a response to what trend?
What is the primary benefit of using a 'from-to matrix' in designing a process-oriented layout?
In the Boeing wing component example, what does it mean that Task B must follow Task A?
When are fixed-position layouts appropriate?
Which of these is NOT a good practice for retail layout arrangement?
What is the total idle time per cycle for the six-station assembly line solution shown in the text, which has a cycle time of 12 minutes and a total task time of 65 minutes?