4 The assembler of customised laboratory equipment negotiates a long-term arrangement to supply a simplified standard product

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4 The assembler of customised laboratory equipment negotiates a long-term arrangement to supply a simplified standard product to be sold to forensic laboratories worldwide. This product requires an assembly sequence that takes it, in order, from Departments 2 to 4 to 8 to 5. Estimates of demand indicate that the new product would account for 30 standard container loads per day. If this new product came to be seen as a permanent addition to the operation’s work, how might the layout need to be changed?

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Operations Management

ISBN: 978-1292408248

10th Edition

Authors: Nigel Slack ,Alistair Brandon-Jones ,Nicola Burgess

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