Woodlove, a furniture manufacturing company, had separate departments for completing various tasks involved in creating a piece of furniture, such as cutting the wood, shaping the various parts, assembling the furniture, and polishing the finished product. To reduce wait time in the work flow, the management of the company decided to train the employees to perform all the tasks. Once the carpenters were trained to do multiple tasks, the productivity and the overall utilization of the resources improved significantly. In this scenario, the company adopted the _____ approach.
A. flow production
B. lean production
C. mass production
D. traditional assembly line
Answer: B
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A. fixed-ratio B. variable-interval C. fixed-interval D. variable-ratio
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A. 1,000 B. 2 million C. 50 million D. 500,000
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