BU385 Study Guide - Final Guide: Gantt Chart
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Facility layout: specific configuration of physical facilities, spatial arrangement of resources used to create products or services. To minimize: material handling costs, eliminate bottlenecks, redundant movement, manufacturing cycle time, customer service time. Facilitate: communication, entry exit and placement of material, products and people. Promote: product and service quality, proper maintenance activities. Provide: flexibility to adapt to changing conditions, a visual control of activities, safety and security measures. Automation: using machinery with sensing and control devices that enable it to operate automatically, necessary for competitiveness. Disadvantages: expensive, less flexible, adverse impact on worker morale (job losses) Fixed automation: high cost, specialized equipment for a fixed sequence of ops. Programmable automation: high cost, flexible equipment controlled by a computer program. Numerically controlled (n/c) machines: programmed to follow a sequence of instructions based on math relationships. Flexible automation: evolved from programmable automation, uses most customized equipment.
