Across
- 3. ___ technology can be seen as an attempt to obtain some of the cost benefits of flowlines in a batch environment
- 7. Location near a source of raw materials is a prerequisite for ___ processes
- 8. An excessive stress on efficiency in control systems can also lead to ___ performance
- 10. Characteristic of the service that implies that demand for service follows short-term patterns
- 14. This process type is used in chemical processing
- 15. A well-designed flowline must be balanced so that each stage is operating at the same ___ of output
- 16. The batch size is frequently determined by economic ___, but may also be dictated by demand
- 17. The greater the degree of ___ of the service, the more predictable and reproducible its delivery
- 18. Characteristic of the service that implies that services rarely have a comprehensive agreed specification
- 19. Characteristic of the service that implies that production and consumption of the service are simultaneous
- 20. The political and social environment has an effect upon operations through improving standards of ___, health and safety at work
Down
- 1. Characteristic of the service that implies that service cannot be stocked
- 2. Customers who are presented with few ___ will take less time to make a choice
- 4. In a ___, the fixed sequence of operations is embedded into the design of the line so that trasport is minimized
- 5. An important difference between manufacturing and service operations is the presence of the ___
- 6. Project operations differ from job operation only in scale and ___
- 9. The alternative to ___ decentralization is total decentralization
- 11. It refers to fundamental facilities and systems serving a business
- 12. A frequently reported benefit of group technology is greater motivation and job ___
- 13. Flowlines are intrinsically ___; they are designed to produce a particular product at a particular rate of output