If you look at a manufacturing environment which has a product or group of products how is it produced?

A) What is the process; describe in detail? A1) How many steps in the process, A2) what takes place in each step of the process. The key to process and layout is customer demand.

B) What volume of demand (or output) can the process given its layout handle? B1) how much demand variance takes place over what time? B2) Are the processes used to make other products?

Lastly, C) does the current process/layout handle peak demand, C1) could it handle an increase of 20% more or 50% more, C2) what changes would be necessary to handle more demand volume?

Parts A and B also work well with a kitchen restaurant where volume change often and multiple products are produced with the same process. So pick a process layout and provide your views. In addition, if there is a waiting line, how is it laid out? Given demand variance, how does the waiting line "layout" change? For example area or space allocated.