Management has decided to add capacity incrementally in smaller chunks as needed,
rather than purchasing one large facility. This decision ____________________.
a) is very risky
b) will result in low initial costs
c) will ultimately result in lower costs per unit if demand increases rapidly
d) positions the company to be well prepared for high demand in the future
e) can lead to a large amount of excess capacity
Which of the following is correct sequence for relating product design, process
selection, and arrangement of equipment in the factory?
a) product design determines arrangement of equipment which determines process
selection
b) product design determines process selection which determines arrangement of
equipment
c) process selection determines product design which determines arrangement of
equipment
d) process selection determines arrangement of equipment which determines product
design
e) arrangement of equipment determines process selection which determines product
design
Which of the following statements is true?
a) The ‘slushy’ portion of the MPS comes sooner than the ‘liquid’ portion of the MPS.
b) The planning time fence occurs before the demand time fence.
c) The ‘frozen’ portion of the MPS occurs between the planning time fence and the
demand time fence.
d) The master scheduler has more authority during the ‘frozen’ portion of the MPS than
during the ‘slushy’ portion of the MPS.
e) The ‘liquid’ portion of the MPS occurs before the demand time fence.
Which product and service strategy is used to produce standard components that can be
combined to customer specifications?
a) assemble-to-deliver
b) make-to-stock
c) assemble-to-order
d) make-to-order
e) make-to-package
Johnny Now, Inc. produces two different models of outhouses. Demand next period is
expected to be 12,000 and 18,000 units for Models A and B, respectively. Model A has
CPOPF planning factors of 0.75 and 0.60 for direct labor and machine time,
respectively. Model B has CPOPF planning factors of 0.50 and 0.80 for direct labor and
machine time, respectively. Historically department G uses 24% of the direct labor and
machine time for these products, while department H uses the remaining 76%. What is
the direct labor time requirement for department G next period?
a) 4,320 hours
b) 13,680 hours
c) 18,000 hours
d) 9,000 hours
e) 5,184 hours
An employee who will not help a customer because ‘it is not my job’ violates the JIT
belief of
a) Simplicity
b) A broad view of operations
c) Continuous improvement
d) Visibility
e) Pull production
What is an automated material handling system that basically is an automated
warehouse?
a) CAD
b) AGV
c) AS/RS
d) FMS
e) CAM
Which of the following is not a correctly stated step of the CPOPF method?
a) Determine the appropriate planning factors using historical data.
b) Multiply the MPS quantities by the appropriate planning factor.
c) Sum capacity requirements for each resource by time period.
d) Allocate capacity requirements to group work centers based on historical
percentages.
e) Evaluate the workload at each resource to validate MPS feasibility.
If a delay in an activity will delay completion of the whole project, the activity
____________________.
a) is on the critical path
b) has slack
c) is costly
d) is a dummy
e) is represented by a node
Suppose that output is worth $400, and labor and materials costs are $200 and $100,
respectively. What is the materials productivity?
a) 2.00
b) 1.33
c) 0.25
d) 0.75
e) 4.00
Operations Management is responsible for increasing the organization’s efficiency,
which means the company will be able to __________.
a) add to the engineering process
b) take for granted current operations
c) increase the number of positions under the manager’s position
d) eliminate activities that do not add value
e) increasing purchasing opportunities
The expected operational life of a product is called its __________________________.
a) conformance
b) reliability
c) performance
d) durability
e) serviceability
Three basic elements work together to complete a JIT system: just-in-time
manufacturing, total quality management, and
a) Quality circles
b) Pull production
c) Minimizing inventory
d) Respect for people
e) Full utilization of capacity
What are the allowable constraint relationship types in optimization problems?
a) <, >, =
b) <, >, =, ≤, ≥
c) =, ≤, ≥
d) <, >, ≤, ≥
e) ≠, =, ≤, ≥
The last step in constructing the house of quality includes
a) Determining how to advertise
b) Setting targets for our own product
c) Determining how to attack our competitors’ products
d) Designing the product
e) Comparing results with past sales
Which term refers to inaccurate or distorted demand information created in the supply
chain?
a) Battle axe effect
b) Cobra effect
c) Bullwhip effect
d) Lasso effect
e) Whirlpool effect
What is a type of automation system that provides the flexibility of intermittent
operations with the efficiency of repetitive operations?
a) CAD
b) AGV
c) AS/RS
d) FMS
e) CAM
Which of the following information items is not contained in decision trees?
a) points in time when decisions are made
b) ) decision alternatives
c) chance event probabilities
d) probability of choosing decision alternatives
e) outcomes, such as estimated profits
Which of the following statements is not true?
a) The bottleneck determines the lowest possible cycle time.
b) It might be possible to split a bottleneck task into two smaller non-bottleneck tasks.
c) A production process always has at least one bottleneck.
d) A bottleneck task is the longest task in a process.
e) A perfectly balanced line has no bottlenecks.
Name three functions of a purchasing department: ________________________,
________________________, ________________________
For the data provided determine the Inventory Record using a FOQ lot size rule for the
screw (H).
What are valid reasons for reducing the time spent finishing a particular project?
What is the mean job flow time for Bob’s body and fender shop for the following repair
jobs? Fender job finishes day 8; hood replacement finishes day 7, front end repair
finished day 4, trunk fix finishes on day 12, and the door repair finishes on day 6.
Discuss why marketing is important in making capacity decisions.
Formulate the following as a linear programming problem.
Jan lives in the country and is having a garage sale tomorrow. She has decided to sell
some fresh baked goods in conjunction with the sale. She has excellent recipes for apple
pie and for apple turnovers. She has 20.83 pounds of apples. Each pie will require 1.6
pounds of apples and each turnover will require 0.22 pounds of apples. She has
discovered that she is short of both flour and sugar and does not want to make another
trip to the store tonight. She has 5.7 pounds of flour and 200 grams of sugar. Each pie
will require 0.6 pounds of flour and 11 grams of sugar. Each turnover will require .02
pounds of flour and 3 grams of sugar. She will sell pies for $6 each and turnovers for
$0.75 each. She has decided to make 8 pies at most, because she is concerned about
how well they will sell.
What outsourcing activities does Total Logistics Control perform for Meijer?
Maxine’s cookie factory bottleneck is the oven. It takes 45 seconds to cook a batch of
144 cookies. What is the maximum number of cookies that Maxine can produce every
hour?