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Principle of operation mangement

A bread maker has doubled the number of ingredients in its line of 12 basic breads, has halved its equipment conversion time between production runs of each bread, and has increased the lenght of production runs for each bread.  What principle of operations management is it following?

A. Increase the number of components or ingredients

B. Decrease cycle intervals

C. Reduce changeover time between production cycles

D. Increase lot sizes

I believe it is either A or C

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