Which of the following is an advantage of technology grouping?

• A. Focuses on being capital intensive, which reduces wage and salary costs for staff
• B. High degree of specialisation can occur in production, increasing efficiency
• C. Problems in the production process can be hidden
• D. Duplication of resources increases costs

Answer: (B)

Grouping by technology creates work cells where machines and operators focus on similar processing requirements. This lets people become highly skilled in a narrow set of operations and keeps the flow of work smooth within each cell. With dedicated cells, changeovers are shorter and throughput improves because everyone and every machine is optimized for that family of parts. The result is a noticeable gain in efficiency, which is exactly why this advantage is the best fit.

Other suggested ideas miss the point: simply being capital intensive isn’t what this approach guarantees, and wage costs aren’t the main lever here. Problems in the production process can be harder to see in a grouped setup, which is a potential downside rather than an advantage. And duplicating resources would raise costs, contradicting the purpose of grouping to improve flow and reduce waste.