Operation Management - Process Choice and Layout Planning

PROCESS CHOICE
Characteristics of project, jobbing, batch, flow, and process production systems, with examples for each.
Project, jobbing, batch, flow and process production are the process types used in manufacturing. The figure below shows the trade off between volume and variety of outputs. In choosing one of these systems, high volume means low variety and high variety means low volume.
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Project processes - The essence of project processes is that they are all different, so very low volume and very high variety. …