Phil Johnson is the owner of a small firm that manufactures customised oil-drilling equipment.The company's manufacturing facility is organised into a fabrication section, a heat treatment section, a welding section, and a quality control section.This type of plant layout is referred to as a(n) ____ layout.

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The manufacturing facility that Phil Johnson owns is organised according to different processes, such as fabrication, heat treatment, welding, and quality control. This type of plant layout is referred to as a process layout, making option E the correct choice. A product layout, on the other hand, would organize the plant according to the stages of production for a specific product, such as a car assembly line. Pooled manufacturing, assembly-line, and group manufacturing are not commonly used terms for plant layout.

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