15. When a company is facing a high volume and low variety kind of product, what process type it should choose? Why? Answer:

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15. When a company is facing a high volume and low
variety kind of product, what process type it should
choose? Why?
Answer:
16. What is the benefit and shortcoming of a U-shaped
layouts?
Answer:
17. There are some tasks and their sequence shown in the
following figure. Please assign the tasks in order of the
greatest number of followers with a cycle time of 1.2
minute.
Answer:
18. Please compare the advantages and disadvantages of
stopwatch time study and the work sampling. Then give
one possible application for each approach.
Answer:
Transcribed Image Text:15. When a company is facing a high volume and low variety kind of product, what process type it should choose? Why? Answer: 16. What is the benefit and shortcoming of a U-shaped layouts? Answer: 17. There are some tasks and their sequence shown in the following figure. Please assign the tasks in order of the greatest number of followers with a cycle time of 1.2 minute. Answer: 18. Please compare the advantages and disadvantages of stopwatch time study and the work sampling. Then give one possible application for each approach. Answer:
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