... as they have little experience and skills and the more skilled workers would make the handmade chocolates. Chocoholics produce its product on six different product lines, which are laid out, by product. This way of producing chocolate is dangerous, as a breakage on 1 production line will affect the whole business. If there is a reduction in 1 type of chocolate it will be very expensive to change the machinery to make a more popular one. The new layout that I have created for chocoholics has only three production lines, compared to the six they had before. The three production lines however are not laid out by product and are able to produce all of the types of chocolate on each line. This way, if a breakage occurs on one of the production lines the company will still be able to carry on producing all of the chocolate for the selection ...

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