Facility layout and material flowpath design are major factors in the productivity analysis of automated manufacturing systems.
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Facility layout and material flowpath design are major factors in the productivity analysis of automated manufacturing systems. Facility layout is concerned with the location arrangement of machines and buffers for work-in-process. Flowpath design is concerned with the direction of manufacturing material flows, e.g., unidirectional or bidirectional (Tanchoko, Material Flow Systems in Manufacturing, 2012). A manufacturer of printed circuit boards is interested in evaluating two alternative existing layout and flowpath designs. The output of each design was monitored for 8 consecutive working days. The data (shown here) are saved in the file. Design 2 appears to be superior to Design 1. Do you agree? Explain fully.
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Statistics For Business And Economics
ISBN: 9780136855354
14th Edition
Authors: James T. McClave, P. George Benson, Terry T Sincich