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Business Processes in Practice 6.4: Aircraft
Work Centers

Although it might not appear to be simple, bicycle is so complex and the fi nished good is so large that the
assembly is actually quite straightforward compared to work centers actually move from one aircraft to another
other types of manufactured goods. Imagine the com- during assembly, in contrast to the stationary work cent-
plexity of the work centers and tasks involved with ers used in our GBI example. Notice the mobile work
assembling a Boeing 757 (Figure 6-9). Aircraft assembly centers (carts and mobile machines) in the fi gure.

Figure 6-9: Assembling a Boeing 757. ©Kevin Horan/Getty Images, Inc.

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