Scenario - Jennifer Ray
The challenge from increased competition led Jennifer Ray, president of Paint Applications, to move to an approach using computers to automate and integrate manufacturing components such as robots, machines, product design, and engineering analysis. Paint Applications has a structure with few rules, decentralization, a small ratio of administrators to workers and a team oriented organic approach. The company's products are enjoying high acceptance from the market and growth is constant.
-The category of technology most representative of Jennifer's company is
A) unit and Small Batch.
B) large Batch and Mass.
C) nonroutine service.
D) continuous process production.
E) none of these.

Question

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

Jennifer Ray's approach of using computers to automate and integrate manufacturing components suggest that the company is involved in continuous process production. This category of technology refers to a production process in which goods are produced in a continuous flow, with no breaks or interruptions in the production cycle. It is typically used to produce goods in large quantities, with a high degree of automation and little need for intervention by workers. This is consistent with the high acceptance and constant growth of Paint Applications' products, which suggests that they are producing goods in a highly efficient and automated manner.