• • 9.5 A job shop in the new industrial area of Six of October, Egypt, wants to arrange four work centers to minimize the interdepartmental material-handling cost. The flow and the current layout are shown below.

a) What is the “load * distance,” or “movement cost,” of the current layout?

b) Propose an improved layout and compute the movement cost of the proposed layout.

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X Y 80 m M Z Number of workpieces moved between the different work centers per day FROM/TO X Y M Z X 300 600 800 > MN Y 400 400 0 0 0 600 0 300 0 -