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PROCESS, LAYOUT AND LOCATION - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Advantage: very efficient
      - Disadvantage: rigid, costly to change
    - - Advantage: low unit cost, efficient
      - Low flexibility, high cost of downtime
    - - Advantage: flexibility, easy to add or change
      - Disadvantage: moderate cost per unit, moderate scheduling complexity
    - - Advantage: handle a wide variety of work
      - Disadvantage: slow, high cost per unit, complex scheduling
- - - - uses standardized processing operations to achieve smooth, rapid, high-volume flow
      - used for Repetitive and Continuous Process
      - advantage
        
        high rate of output
        
        Low unit cost
        
        Labor specialization
        
        Fairly routine accounting, purchasing,
        and inventory control.
      - Line Balancing
        
        the process of assigning tasks --> workstations have equal time requirement
        
        Steps
    - - can handle varied processing
        requirements
      - more seen in service products
      - Advantage
        
        can handle a variety of
        processing requirements
        
        not vulnerable
        to equipment failures
        
        General-purpose equipment is less
        costly
      - used for Job shop or Batch Process