When designing production facilities,designers generally find that
A) automated machinery enables a high level of flexibility regarding product variety and sizes.
B) general-purpose machines require a more narrow range of skills than might be necessary for a special-purpose machine.
C) they have to choose between low-output specialized machinery and higher-output, general-purpose machines.
D) computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM) systems permit economic batch quantity to be reduced to one.

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CIM systems enable a machine to make one part as easily as another in random order on an instruction from a bar code reader of the kind used in supermarkets. This reduces the economic batch quantity-the minimum number of a part that can be made economically by a factory-to one.

When Designing Production Facilities,designers Generally Find That