Product Layout, Fixed Product Layout, and Process Layout
What are the 3 types of Layouts for Manufacturing Businesses?
100
a retail layout that consists of a pattern of crossing aisles providing a highly structured system for facilitating the flow of traffic
What is a Right-Angle Grid?
200
a small geographic area into which a state or country is divided for the purpose of gathering and reporting census data
What is a Census Tract?
200
an area set aside in a community for industrial use
What is an Industrial Park?
200
two types of businesses that are not concerned about access for pedestrians
What are Manufacturers and Extractors?
200
this layout places all machines and supporting activities along a product flow line...used in an assembly-line sequence
What is the Product Layout?
200
a layout with open sales space bounded by outside walls which enhances visibility of merchandise, sales coverage, and security
What is an Open Layout?
300
the region or section of the community from which you expect to draw customers
What is a trade area?
300
Face of the building
What is the Facade?
300
Is the Economic Base Favorable?
Are There Financial Incentives?
What is the Makeup of the Population?
Does the Labor Supply Match your Needs?
What are the Factors in Community Selection?
300
**Double Jeopardy**
the access, arrangement, and flow among all the activities in a building
What are Interrelationships?
300
a layout which organizes types of merchandise into separate operations with walls placed between units to create shopping environments
What is an Enclosed Layout?
400
**Double Jeopardy**
an enterprise that is set up to provide flexible and affordable leases, office space, equipment, management assistance, mentoring assistance, and access to financing for start-up businesses
What is an Incubator?
400
the furniture, equipment, and accessories, such as planters and fish tanks
What are Appointments?
400
The number and size of competing businesses
The nature of the competition
The character of the area
The accessibility and traffic
What are Retail Business Considerations?
400
the type of business which includes an office area, storage areas for equipment and supplies, and the site itself
What is an Extraction Business?
400
layout which combines elements of the open and enclosed layouts and improves customer and sales staff interaction and shows off creative displays
What is the Landscaped Layout?
500
a floor plan or map that shows the arrangement of a business
What is Layout?
500
the major industries that provide jobs
What is the Economic Base?
500
areas in which businesses are encouraged to locate through incentives
What is an Enterprise Zone?
500
this layout is used when the product is too heavy or bulky to be moved around the plant
What is Fixed-Product Layout?
500
the layout used when privacy and noise reduction are the primary concerns