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level: Factory layout

Questions and Answers List

Question	Answer
- Fixed - Process (functional) - Flowline (product) - Cellular - Hybrid	Types of layout
- Used for craft based industries with large products - e.g. ship building, aircraft assembly, heavy machinery, specialist cars - Difficult to automate even in industries that use it	Fixed position
- Used for jobbing manufacture and batch manufacture - Most versatile type of manufacture - Suites frequently changing product - e.g. factories that manufacture machined metal components	Process (functional) layout
- Used for high volume/mass production e.g. cars and consumer products	Flow line (product) layout
- machinery are arranged in the most common order, rather than grouped together by type as in the process layout - typically used in cellular manufacturing where different products have similar parts	Cellular layout