A linear programming problem has two constraints 2X + 4Y =<100 and 1X + 8Y
=<100, plus nonnegativity constraints on X and Y. Which of the following statements
about its feasible region is true?
A) There are four corner points including (50, 0) and (0, 12.5).
B) The two corner points are (0, 0) and (50, 12.5).
C) The graphical origin (0, 0) is not in the feasible region.
D) The feasible region includes all points that satisfy one constraint, the other, or both.
E) The feasible region cannot be determined without knowing whether the problem is to
be minimized or maximized.
A maximizing linear programming problem has two constraints: 2X + 4Y < 100 and 3X
+ 10Y =< 210, in addition to constraints stating that both X and Y must be nonnegative.
The corner points of the feasible region of this problem are
A) (0, 0), (50, 0), (0, 21), and (20, 15)
B) (0, 0), (70, 0), (25, 0), and (15, 20)
C) (20, 15)
D) (0, 0), (0, 100), and (210, 0)
E) none of the above
Forward scheduling
A) begins with a delivery date, then offsets each operation one at a time, in reverse
order
B) is well suited where the supplier is usually able to meet precise delivery dates
C) tends to minimize work-in-process inventory
D) assumes that procurement of material and operations start as soon as requirements
are known
E) produces a schedule only if it meets the due date
A graphic technique for defining the relationship between customer desires and
product/service is
A) Product Lifecycle Management
B) the House of Quality
C) the moment of truth
D) the assembly drawing
E) the product development team
A paint company mixes ten different base colors into 3,000 different color options. If
the MPS is organized around the ten different base colors their bills of material are
classified as
A) Phantom
B) Planning
C) Modular
D) Low-
E) A and B
Labor standards can help to determine
A) labor content of a product
B) staffing needs
C) incentive plans
D) efficiency
E) all of the above
A fried chicken fast-food chain that acquired feed mills and poultry farms has
performed
A) horizontal integration
B) forward integration
C) backward integration
D) current transformation
E) job expansion
TOC strives to reduce the effect of constraints by
A) offloading work from constrained workstations
B) increasing constrained workstation capability
C) changing workstation order to reduce process cycle time
D) A and B
E) A, B, and C
Earl Shell owns his own Sno-Cone business and lives 30 miles from a beach resort. The
sale of Sno-Cones is highly dependent upon his location and upon the weather. At the
resort, he will profit $110 per day in fair weather, $20 per day in foul weather. At home,
he will profit $70 in fair weather, $50 in foul weather. Assume that on any particular
day, the weather service suggests a 60% chance of fair weather.
a. Construct Earl’s payoff table.
b. What decision is recommended by the expected value criterion?
c. What is the EVPI?
Five jobs are waiting to be processed. Their processing times and due dates are given
below. Using the shortest processing time dispatching rule, in which order should the
jobs be processed?
A) A, B, C, D, E
B) C, E, A, D, B
C) B, D, A, E, C
D) D, A, E, B, C
E) C, E, A, D, B
Which of the following environmental factors has not been a factor in Microsoft’s
changing strategy?
A) Google
B) security issues
C) faster processors
D) the Internet
E) none of the above
A quasi-custom product
A) gets its apparent customization from the combinations available from a small
number of modules
B) is often the output of repetitive focus facilities
C) is a valid description of a fast food sandwich
D) is only possible when the focus strategy of service productivity improvement is in
use
E) All but D are true.
Forecasts used for new product planning, capital expenditures, facility location or
expansion, and R&D typically utilize a
A) short-range time horizon
B) medium-range time horizon
C) long-range time horizon
D) naive method, because there is no data history
E) all of the above
A firm is seeking a new factory location, and is considering several countries
worldwide. In some of these countries, child labor is prevalent; in others, working
conditions and worker safety are inferior to conditions in the U.S. An operations
manager paying attention to __________ will factor these issues into the location
decision.
A) ethical and social responsibility issues
B) key success factors
C) factor-rating systems
D) geographic information systems
E) regression models
A crew of mechanics at the Highway Department garage repair vehicles that break
down at an average of = 7 vehicles per day (approximately Poisson in nature). The
mechanic crew can service an average of = 11 vehicles per day with a repair time
distribution that approximates an exponential distribution.
a. What is the utilization rate for this service system?
b. What is the average time before the facility can return a breakdown to service?
c. How much of that time is spent waiting for service?
d. How many vehicles are likely to be waiting for service at any one time?
“Quality Is Free,” meaning that the costs of poor quality have been understated, is the
work of
A) W. Edwards Deming
B) Joseph M. Juran
C) Philip B. Crosby
D) Crosby, Stills, and Nash
E) Armand Feigenbaum
“With respect to the product decision, managers must be able to accept risk and tolerate
failure.” Comment on why this is a necessary hazard in making new product decisions,
given all the powerful tools and carefully built systems that support that decision.
A process-focus facility (for example, a print shop) will likely schedule __________ as
the focus of its master production schedule.
List Hackman and Oldham’s five desirable characteristics of job design.
Perform a SWOT analysis of Hard Rock Caf©, using the information presented within
Chapters 1 and 2 of the text.
Explain why the critical path is the longest, not the shortest, path through a network.
State the three-fold idea behind simulation.
What is the difference between an associative model and a time-series model?
The __________ finds the least-cost means of shipping supplies from several origins to
several destinations.