Jeremy 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 layout described in the question, which organizes the manufacturing facility into different process sections such as fabrication, heat treatment, welding, and quality control, is a process layout. In this layout, the different processes are grouped together, and the products move from one process to another as they are being manufactured. This is different from a product layout, where the equipment is arranged in a linear fashion and moves from one station to another in a predetermined sequence as the product is being made. The other answer choices (pooled manufacturing, assembly-line, and group manufacturing) do not accurately describe the layout described in the question.

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