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Model A:
FMS allows the system to react in case of changes.
What does FMS allow?
1. Agile manufacturing creates the processes and tools, responding to cus-
tomers’ needs and market changes. 2. FMS adapts manufacturing with relative
ease. 3. Company estimates risks before attempting to use a new approach for
their operations. 4. This system minimizes labour costs. 5. The new approach
calls for changing the corporate culture.
Model B:
One of the main benefits of FMS is to adapt the processes to new re-
quirements.
What is one of the main benefits of FMS?
1. The common word for today’s manufacture is “agility”. 2. Agile manu-
facturing is the fastest on the market. 3. FMS is simply one of the ways to
achieve this agility. 4. FMS is a right option. 5. The final result is efficient
operation.
Exercise 24. Ask questions and use the words in italics in your answers. The words
in brackets will help you.
1.
FMS
is a
manufacturing
technology (what, what kind of). 2.
The idea of
FMS
was proposed
in England
in 1960s
(what, where, when).
3.
Supervisory
computers
and microprocessors correct performance of operations and signal
about problems
(what, what kind of, what about). 4. These
systems
assemble
components
into
final
products (what, what, what kind of). 5.
Computers
track
the status
of
all
jobs in process (what, what, what kind of).
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