When selecting new equipment and technology, decision makers look for flexibility—the ability to respond with little penalty in time, cost, or customer value. A value-stream map includes both (1) inventory quantities, and (2) symbols for customers and suppliers.

A product focus usually has higher fixed costs and lower variable costs than a process focus.

Explanation: Mass customization, is used in marketing and it is a term that describes using computer aided manufacturing systems that are flexible in order make custom output. Align Technology and Dell uses mass customization method.

The selection of equipment for a particular type of process can also provide competitive advantage. This advantage may result in added flexibility in meeting customer requirements, lower cost or higher quality.

It involves the selection and sequencing of process steps from a repertoire of unit operations. Unit operations, the working tools of chemical engineers, include such steps as mixing, heating, cooling, pumping, size reduction, and chemical or biological reactions.

Inspections help prevent accidents and provide evidence of due diligence for liability protection. Equipment downtime can be reliably predicted, allowing for more-accurate budgeting and intelligent equipment scheduling strategies to minimize productivity losses.

Safety trumps style in the kitchen environment, so look for equipment that anticipates danger, then offers a solution. A textured, non-slip material such as silicone, for example, makes the handles of peelers, whisks and knives easier to grip with wet hands. Length, too, is a factor.

Businesses can’t operate without the right tools. Choosing equipment is essential, which is why bosses try so hard to get it right. They know that one mistake might backfire and blow up in the face of the business.

Tools are particularly important in construction work. They are primarily used to put things together (e.g., hammers and nail guns) or to take them apart (e.g., jackhammers and saws). Tools are often classified as hand tools and power tools. Hand tools include all non-powered tools, such as hammers and pliers.

Using the correct utensils for cooking ensures that you get the right taste for the dishes you are preparing. When you use the correct utensils, you will find it easier to measure the ingredients needed. For example, when baking cakes, you need the right measurement of sugar, flour, and cornstarch.

1a : the set of articles or physical resources serving to equip a person or thing: such as. (1) : the implements used in an operation or activity : apparatus sports equipment.

Simply put, a piece of equipment is a capital investment that a company has purchased to perform a specific task for the business. This could be drill press in a machine shop or car lift in a repair shop. Some other examples include machinery, hand and power tools, and/or technical apparatus.

Types of equipment

• Materiel.
• Agricultural equipment. List of agricultural equipment.
• Audio equipment.
• Camping equipment.
• Capital equipment.
• Cricket equipment.
• Diving equipment.
• Electrical equipment.

Here are some adjectives for equipment: outdated, expensive audio, often experimental, redundant ancillary, inadequate sensory, radio-directional, antique dental, subtly antiquated, mobile short-wave, heavy, earthmoving, primitive, outdated, sensitive and expensive, true state-of-the-art, useful electronic, terrestrial …

Equipment sentence example

1. The electronic equipment had disappeared as well.
2. The equipment isn’t working again.
3. Why doesn’t he get the proper equipment and run it like a modern ranch?
4. Yes, do you have your medical equipment with you?

Tools and equipment means all hand tools, implements, camp equipment, drawing office and survey instruments, medical and surgical instruments and all articles of similar nature, whether or not they are of an expendable nature, which are not normally issued to officers personally for use in carrying out their official …

Synonyms of equipment

• accoutrements.
• (or accouterments),
• apparatus,
• gear,
• hardware,
• kit.
• [chiefly British],
• material(s),

1a : material or articles used in equipment : outfit. b archaic. (1) : a set of small articles (as for table service)

Antonyms. natural object conductor insulator immateriality unbodied.

What is the opposite of equipment?

What is the opposite of machine?

Tips to improve your English pronunciation: Break ‘equipment’ down into sounds: [I] + [KWIP] + [MUHNT] – say it out loud and exaggerate the sounds until you can consistently produce them.

Equipment is an uncountable noun and is not used in the plural. Equipment is always followed by a singular verb: All our equipment has been carefully tested.

The money could be more usefully spent on new equipment.

equip. (transitive) To furnish for service, or against a need or exigency; to fit out; to supply with whatever is necessary to efficient action in any way; to provide with arms or an armament, stores, munitions, rigging, etc.; — said especially of ships and of troops.

As detailed above, ‘weapons’ is a noun.

Here are some adjectives for weapons: old-style automatic, short-range selective, now undetectable, not-quite-lethal, antique and archaic, murderous serpentine, potent and very useful, merely remote-controlled, admittedly irresistible, weighted and padded, indisputably finest, normal broadside, remarkably stupid.

Yes, weaponed is in the scrabble dictionary.

verb (used with object)

Sword, preeminent hand weapon through a long period of history. It consists of a metal blade varying in length, breadth, and configuration but longer than a dagger and fitted with a handle or hilt usually equipped with a guard.