Armor Solutions Inc. is a manufacturer of external hard drives. All hard drives sold under the brand name Armor are identical to each other and are of the same quality. This is an example of
A) flexible manufacturing.
B) customization.
C) standardization.
D) benchmarking.
E) lean manufacturing.

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This is an example of standardization. Standardization is making identical, interchangeable components or even complete products. With standardization, a customer may not get exactly what he or she wants, but the product generally costs less than a custom-designed product.