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| The grouping of workers, their equipment, and spaces/offices to provide for comfort, safety, and movement of information |
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| An approach that addresses flow, allocates space, and responds to customer behavior. |
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| Fees manufacturers pay to get shelf space for their products. |
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| The physical surroundings in which a service takes place, and how they affect customers and employees. |
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| A design that attempts to minimize total cost by addressing trade-offs between space and material handling. |
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| Avoiding the placement of materials or supplies in storage by processing them as they are received for shipment. |
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| Used in warehousing to locate stock wherever there is an open location |
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| Using warehousing to add value to a product through component modification, repair, labeling, and packaging. |
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| A system that addresses the layout requirements of stationary projects |
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| A layout that deals with low-volume, high-variety production in which like machines and equipment are grouped together. |
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| Groups of batches of parts processed together. |
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| An arrangement of machines and personnel that focuses on making a single product or family of related products. |
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| Place of production to meet customer demands. |
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| A permanent or semi-permanent product-oriented arrangement of machines and personnel. |
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| A facility designed to produce similar products or components. |
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| A machine-paced, product-oriented facility for building components. |
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| An approach that puts fabricated parts together at a series of workstations; used in repetitive processes. |
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| Obtaining output at each workstation on a production line so delay is minimized. |
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| The maximum time that a product is allowed at each workstation. |
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| Problem solving using procedures and rules rather than mathematical optimization. |
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