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1. Which of the following statements about facility location is most accurate?

Multiple Choice

• No firms are influenced by labor costs when making decisions about where to locate.
• Recent changes in information technology have led firms to favor locations near major urban areas.
• Manufacturers often seek to reduce time-to-market by locating facilities in areas with access to key modes of transportation.
• No matter how large they become, most companies ultimately choose to locate major facilities within a few miles of the area in which they started business

2. To make its dry ice, Polar Caps Ice Company compresses carbon dioxide and cools it to an extremely low temperature. Polar Caps Ice Caps' method is an example of process manufacturing.

True or False

3. One of the best ways to maintain consistently high quality in the production process is to give a group of specialists in a separate quality control department the authority to inspect each product at the end of the production process.

True or False

4. Fuzzy Fabrics, Inc. is a specialty manufacturer that produces custom blankets according to customer specifications. Fuzzy Fabrics should probably use an intermittent process in production.

True or False

5. MachineX, Inc. manufactures machinery and robots that can assemble an assortment of cars and trucks including heavy duty pickup trucks, sports cars, luxury sedans, minivans, and multiple sizes of SUVs. MachineX sells products to companies that require

Multiple Choice

• micro-engineering.
• flexible manufacturing.
• continuous production.
• multiple output processing