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Certified in Production and Inventory Management Questions 246–250 (page: 51)

Manufacturing process can be conveniently organized into following categories EXCEPT:

Repetitive Manufacturing and continuous manufacturing are types of:

Which of the following is/are the major characteristic/s to flow manufacturing?

________________ is characterized by many variations in product design, process requirements and order quantities.

1. Flow of work through the shop is varied and depends on the design of a particular product. As orders are processed, they will take more time at once workstation than at another. Thus, the work flow is not balanced.
2. Machinery and workers must be flexible enough to do the variety of work. Machinery and work centers are usually grouped according to the function they perform (e.g. all lathes in one department).
3. Throughput times are generally long. Scheduling work to arrive just when needed is difficult, the time taken by an order at each work center varies, and work queues before work centers, causing long delays in processing. Work-in-process inventory is often large.
4. The capacity required depends on the particular mix of products being built and is difficult to predict. These are the characteristics of: