Skyway Aeronautics was recently awarded a contract to build a large lab module that will be attached to a new space station. The module is approximately 48 feet long, 17 feet in diameter, and weighs over 60 tons. Skyway should use an assembly-line plant layout to produce this module.

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Firms are moving away from assembly-line layouts. Moreover, a product as large as this module would be awkward and difficult to move along an assembly line. When producing a large, bulky, one-of-a-kind item such as a bridge or ship (or a large space station module), firms normally use a fixed-position layout.

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