Ch.3 Reading Assignment

Which could be an appropriate unit for a demand rate? - Hamburgers - Cars per day - Cars - Days

- Cars per day

Utilization can be greater than 100%. - True - False

- False

If cycle time goes up, what will happen to lead time? - It will stay the same. - It will go up. - It will go down.

- It will go up.

What are appropriate units for measuring cycle time? (Choose every correct answer.) - Minutes - Seconds/customer - Seconds - Minutes/burger

- Seconds/customer - Minutes/burger

Match the items with the shapes used in the process flow diagram. Wait, Buffer Inventory --- Flow Direction --- Activity, Task ---

- Triangle - Arrow - Square

Flow units waiting in the process without being worked on are often referred to as ______ inventory.

- buffer

When the flow rate is less than the process capacity, the process is referred to as ______ constrained.

- demand

If cycle time stays constant, but inventory goes down, the lead time will ______ .

- go down

If the cycle time increases, but no new resources are added to the process, then the time needed to serve 100 customers will _______. - stay the same - increase - decrease - increase then decrease

- increase

A rigorous framework for understanding the detailed operations of a business is known as "....." - throughput - utilization - process capacity - process analysis

- process analysis