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1. Transportation costs are an important factor when considering where to locate a facility and are generally a function of:
A. time
B. distance
C. All of the answers affect transportation costs
D. weight
2. Location decisions for service facilities differ from those for manufacturing facilities in that:
A. service facility location decisions are not made as often as those for manufacturing.
B. None of the other answers, i.e. there is no difference between service and manufacturing location decisions
C. it is much more difficult to move a service facility than it is a manufacturing facility.
D. service facilities must be located in areas convenient and easily accessible to customers.
3. The ability to meet present needs without compromising those of future generations is a concept in product design known as:
A. maintainability
B. reusability
C. reliability
D. sustainability
4. When activities are arranged in a line according to the sequence of operations for assembling a particular product the layout is said to be a:
A. hybrid layout
B. process layout
C. product layout
D. fixed position layout
5. Which of the following statements is true?
A. Product and process layouts are equally flexible but neither are all that efficient.
B. Product and process layout are equally efficient but neither are all that flexible.
C. Product layouts are more efficient while process layouts are more flexible.
D. Product layouts are more flexible while process layouts are more efficient.
6. The process of equalizing the amount of work at each workstation in a product layout is known as:
A. cycle time analysis
B. block diagramming
C. line balancing
D. precedence requirements