Question

With the opening of a newly sandblasting facility, explain why it would be more beneficial to use a product layout process over a fixed position layout, process layout, and cellular layout?

Answer 1

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For a sandblasting facility, it would be more beneficial to use a product layout than the other types of layout due to the fact that sandblasting is a one-step process. What that means is there is a single implementation that a station might require in order to get the job done. This is, therefore, better, both in terms of the ability of each station to be able to perform all the necessary tasks even in isolation. And, for a smaller sized company, the product based layout is mostly the best option when it comes to selecting layout type.

Processes layout is built around the task and therefore, might not have all the same tools or even all the necessary tools which would be required to complete the job. And, the cellular layout has a much larger scope of implementation than a sandblasting facility might require.