Question

According to Heizer and Render, a good retail layout or design

	a.	Seeks the best personnel and machine utilization in repetitive or continuous production.
	b.	Deals with low-volume, high-variety production.
	c.	Addresses the layout requirements of large, bulky projects such as ships and buildings.
	d.	Groups workers, their equipment, and spaces/offices to provide for efficient movement of information.
	e.	Focuses on maximizing product exposure to customers

A factory manager of a Work Cell is seeking to reduce employee movement and space requirements while

enhancing communication, reducing the number of workers, and facilitating inspection. The manager can

achieve that by setting a new layout of the workstation in form of a:

	a.	Straight line layout
	b.	L shape layout
	c.	U shape layout
	d.	Layout not mentioned here, since these will not make any difference

In a Process-oriented layout work centers are arranged to minimize the costs of material handling.

The basic cost elements for optimizing material handling costs are:

	a.	material costs and labor costs
	b.	number of loads and distance the loads move between the work centers
	c.	setup time and run time at the work centers
	d.	number of shifts and number of working days during the week

Answer 1

According to Heizer and Render, a good retail layout or design

Answer: (e)

In retail layout, the profitability depends on the customer’s exposure to the products.

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A factory manager of a Work Cell is seeking to reduce employee movement and space requirements while enhancing communication, reducing the number of workers, and facilitating inspection. The manager can

Answer: (c)

U-shape layout will help the manager to get all the mentioned benefits to optimize people, material, and communication. The workers will have better access to each other and the workers can be cross trained.

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In a Process-oriented layout work centres are arranged to minimize the costs of material handling. The basic cost elements for optimizing material handling costs are:

Answer: (b)

In the process oriented layout, the material handling cost can be reduced by reducing the movement of material and labor. For that number of loads and distance loads are basic cost elements.