Phil Johnson is the owner of a small firm that manufactures customized oil-drilling equipment. The company's manufacturing facility is organized 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 plant layout described in the scenario is a process layout, where the equipment is manufactured in a series of distinct processes that are organized according to the specific requirements of each process. This is different from a product layout, where the manufacturing processes are organized in a sequence that corresponds to the order in which the product is assembled, and from an assembly-line layout, where the product moves along a continuous line of workers who perform specialized tasks at each step. The other options, pooled manufacturing and group manufacturing, are not commonly used layouts.

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