1.       What layouts are designed to process items or provide services that involve a variety of processing requirements. The variety of jobs that are processed requires frequent adjustments to equipment?

1.    What layouts are designed when the item being worked on remains stationary, and workers, materials, and equipment are moved about as needed?

1.       What process is used when higher volumes of more standardized goods or services are needed?

1.       What system is used when a very high volume of nondiscrete, highly standardized output is desired?

1.       What are used to achieve a smooth and rapid flow of large volumes of goods or customers through a system?

1.    Usually operates on a relatively small scale. It is used when a low volume of high-variety goods or services will be needed.

1.    Used when a moderate volume of goods or services is desired, and it can handle a moderate variety in products or services.

1.    Machinery that has sensing and control devices that enable it to operate automatically.

1.    Often be categorized as product, process, or fixed-position layouts.