Limitations
1. General supervision required
2. Greater labor skills required for team member to be skilled on all operations
3. Critically dependent on production control balancing the flows throught the individual cells
4. If flow is not balanced is each cell bufers and work in process storage are required in the cell to eliminate the need for added material handling to and from the cell
5. Has some of the disadvantages of product layout and process layout it is a compromise between the two
6. Decrease the opportunity to use special-purpose equipment