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WGU Operations-Management Exam - Topic 4 Question 5 Discussion
Topic #: 4
A construction company produces furnished pre-fabricated manufactured homes. The production manager has discovered the following challenges within one of the facilities:
* Production quantities are low and only a small number of homes are built efficiently.
* The facility space allows for low handling of materials.
* There is limited space available for employees to operate.
Which hybrid layout should be used to address the company's needs?
The appropriate hybrid layout is group technology.
Group technology combines the efficiency of product layouts with the flexibility of process layouts by grouping similar products into families and arranging workstations into cells. Each cell is designed to handle a specific family of products from start to finish.
In the case of prefabricated homes:
Production volumes are low
Product designs share similarities
Space is constrained
Material handling must be minimized
Group technology reduces:
Movement of materials
Setup times
Work-in-process inventory
Congestion in limited spaces
The other options are not layouts:
Process performance metrics are measurement tools
Manufacturing technology refers broadly to automation
Statistical reduction control is not a recognized layout concept
Operations Management promotes group technology as an effective solution for low-volume, moderate-variety environments, especially where space efficiency and flow improvement are critical.
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