chapter 4

T or F If the takt time is shorter than the cycle time, the process needs to run faster

True

T or F Specialization increases the costs of labor because specialists will command a higher wage rate?

False

T or F The bottleneck resource in a process has the least idle time?

True

T or F It is possible to increase process capacity by balancing a process?

True ???

T or F Balancing a process with a fixed sequence of activities will achieve a higher average labor utilization than balancing a process with no fixed sequence of activities?

False

T or F Specialization typically leads to a higher average labor utilization?

False

T or F When an operation improves its efficiency, its revenue will always stay constant, while its costs will go down

False

Which of the following actions does not relate to off-loading the bottleneck?

Increasing wages for production workers

A process has high fixed costs and low variable costs. It is currently capacity-constrained. Will the impact of an efficiency improvement be small or large?

Large

How does the target manpower chance as the demand rate increases?

Target manpower increases???

A worker claims to have an average labor utilization of 120%, is this possible?

No

What is true about takt time and cycle time?

Takt time only depends on demand, not capacity. Cycle time does depend on capacity

A non-bottleneck worker currently has an idle time of 20 seconds per unit. Because of the large demand, the company improves the process by adding more capacity to the bottleneck. How does this impact the idle time of the worker?

The idle time would decrease

You and three of your friends run a car wash for a fund-raiser. Between interior and exterior cleaning, you spend 40 minutes per vehicle. You are so successful that the next day you invite 4 more friends to help. How does this impact the labor content?

The labor content stays the same

How does the takt time change as the demand rate increases?

The takt time decreases

What happens to the target manpower if the labor content is doubled?

The target manpower doubles