what does product integration refer to in an advanced manufacturing setting?
a.
creating improved solutions by utilizing recycled wastes as raw materials
b.
improving the refining process to produce better raw materials
c.
combining primary and secondary processes to provide higher efficiency
d.
bundling software with components to create a complete product
e.
waste management that integrates manufacturing and environment responsibility

C!!

Explanation:

Combining all manufacturing processes to provide higher efficiency and fulfilling the requeriments.

Product integration refer to in an advanced manufacturing setting as a (D) Bundling software with components to create a complete product

Explanation:

Product Integration means to integrate the product line. Let us go by basic terms. Integration means to join. So product integration in Advanced Manufacturing Setting means to join the manufacturing processes.

Now product have 2 vital stages apart from development design etc., which are supply and receipt of products. In any manufacturing stage, in ordrer to process a product, raw material comes in, product gets processed, and finally the product is fed further.

So basically Product Integration means integrating/connecting Receipts, which are inputs received from previous step, and Supply (Output of the current step).

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