Operations Management

Assignment $2$

Process Selection and Facility Layout

Compare giving examples between the different types of production: job shop, batch, repetitive,

and continuous.

What is meant by layout? Why is there a need for layout decisions?

What are the differences between product layout, process layout, and fixed position layout?

What is meant by cell manufacturing? What are its advantages and disadvantages?

Define: Cycle time, line balancing, and operating time.

A company plans to produce $250,000$ units per year. If the available operating time is $250$ days

with $8$ hours per day, then find the cycle time.

For the given precedence diagram, assign tasks to workstations to utilize a cycle time of $1\mathrm{.}3$

minutes using the rank positional weight heuristic.

Compare the efficiency of the result of question $7$ to the result obtained from using the

selection rule of the maximum number of following tasks.