Manufacturing Part 4

You have just determined the actual number of workstations that will be used on an assembly line to be 8 using the assembly-line balancing procedure. The cycle time of the line is 10 minutes and the sum of all that tasks required on the line is 60 minutes. Which of the following is the correct value for the resulting line's efficiency?

0.75

Which of the following is not a suggestion for managing queues presented in the textbook?

Determine an acceptable waiting time for your customers

The acronym ERP stands for:

Enterprise Resource Planning—A data base of that ties together all application programs in a firm.

A bank branch manager position is not an OSCM-type of job.

False

A work breakdown structure is used in project management but it is not used when the critical path method is involved.

False

In a net change MRP system requirements and schedules are considered rigid and never updated.

False

Little's law states that supply chain processes can be regarded as unrelated and thus treated and analyzed separately.

False

The increasing complexity of modern operations management has made simple cut-and-try charting and graphical methods formerly used to develop aggregate operations plans impractical and obsolete.

False

In the service-system design matrix, a face-to-face total customization service encounter is expected to have which of the following?

Low production efficiency

Ideally in waiting line or queuing analysis we want to balance the cost of service capacity with the cost of waiting.

True

In essence, a queuing system includes several major components. Which of the following is not one of them?

The queue discipline

Which of the following are the three major components of a queuing system?

The source population and the way customers arrive at the system, the serving systems, and how customers exit the system.

An important aspect of service products is that they cannot be inventoried.

True

Assembling-to-order means moving the customer order decoupling point from finished goods to components.

True

Just in time (JIT) production was a major breakthrough in manufacturing philosophy pioneered by the Japanese.

True

One trade-off illustrated by the product-process matrix is between flexibility and cost.

True

Operations and supply chain management is defined as the design, operation, and improvement of the systems that create and deliver the firm's primary products and services.

True

The Aggregate Operations Plan variable "inventory on hand" refers to the balance of unused inventory carried over from the previous time period.

True

The critical path in a CPM analysis is found by locating the activities times with zero slack.

True

The main purpose of the aggregate production plan is to specify the optimal combination of workforce level and inventory on hand.

True

The master production schedule states the number of items to be produced during specific time periods.

True