Nine components are to be manufactured on five machine types. The incidences are shown in Table 4.1. Machines are semi-automatic. One Manager says putting all machines into one cell will do. Using Similarity Coefficient method confirm or disprove this statement. What is the efficiency of two cell layout? [13]

Table 4.1: Machine Utilizations

	Components
Machine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
A	1			1		1			1
B		1	1		1	1
C	1		1		1				1
D	1			1		1
E			1	1			1	1