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Which of the following is NOT an objective of ergonomics?
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_____ is vertical expansion of job duties to give a worker more responsibility.
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The facility layout in a library would most likely be a process layout.
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A _____ layout consists of a functional grouping of equipment or activities that do similar work.
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In service organizations, capacity is more often viewed as _____.
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The typical layout of facilities in a legal office would be an example of a _____ layout.
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The objective of assembly-line balancing is to group tasks among workstations so that the amount of work assigned to each workstation is highly variable, thus maximizing flexibility.
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A Gallup study showed that workers who are allowed to personalize their workplaces were no more productive than those who are not allowed.
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Safety capacity is most closely related to _____.
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For a nonbottleneck activity:
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_____ is the horizontal expansion of a job to give a worker more variety—although not necessarily more responsibility.
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Self-managed teams perform entire jobs, rather than specialized, assembly-line work.
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Facility layout is not only concerned with the arrangement of physical facilities, but also the material handling capabilities within the facility.
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According to the Theory of Constraints, _____ is the amount of money generated per time period through actual sales.
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When the average unit cost of a good or service decreases as the capacity and/or volume of throughput increases, it is known as _____.
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Which of the following statements is NOT true about fixed-position layouts?
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A _____ layout is an arrangement based on self-contained groups of equipment needed to produce a particular set of goods or services.
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A _____ layout is an arrangement based on the sequence of operations that are performed during the manufacturing of a good or delivery of a service.
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The Theory of Constraints is focused on eliminating all bottlenecks in a process.
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Average safety capacity (%) is computed as:
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Cycle time is related to the output rate and the available time to produce output.
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Economies of scale occur when the average unit cost of a good or service begins to increase as the capacity and/or volume of throughput increases.
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In class, the instructor stated that one of the single most expensive operational workplace design considerations often ignored or overlooked is?
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In class, the instructor stated that nonphysical constraints are often related to? (Choose Two)
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In class, the instructor noted that capacity will typically be no greater than the largest bottleneck in an operation or process.
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