- Special-purpose equipment are used
- Changeover is expensive and lengthy
- Material flow approaches continuous
- Material handling equipment is fixed
- Operators need not be as skilled
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Characteristics of Product Layouts - Little direct supervision is required
- Planning, scheduling and controlling functions are relatively straight-forward
- Production time for a unit is relatively short
- In-process inventory is relatively low
Cellular Manufacturing Layouts - Operations required to produce a particular family (group) of parts are arranged in the sequence required to make that family
- Used when the operations system must handle a moderate variety of products in moderate volumes
Characteristics of Cellular Manufacturing Relative to Process Layouts - Equipment can be less general-purpose
- Material handling costs are reduced
- Training periods for operators are shortened
- In-process inventory is lower
- Parts can be made faster and shipped more quickly
- Equipment can be less special-purpose
- Changeovers are simplified
- Production is easier to automate
Fixed-Position Layouts Hybrid Layouts - Actually, most manufacturing facilities use a combination of layout types.
- An example of a hybrid layout is where departments are arranged according to the types of processes but the products flow through on a product layout.
New Trends in Manufacturing Layouts - Designed for quality
- Designed for flexibility - to quickly shift to different product models or to different production rates
- Cellular layout within larger process layouts
- Automated material handling
- U-shaped production lines
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