Chapter 7 manufacturing process

If a car has four engine choices, three transmission choices, and five entertainment choices, there are total number of combinations.

60

Identify the following tool.

Assembly drawing

Which of the following would be recommended by the product-process matrix for the highest product standardization?

Continuous

Which of the following is not used in a break-even calculation?

Labor costs

Which of the following would be recommended by the product-process matrix for the lowest product standardization?

Project

Break-even analysis is most suitable when all of the following conditions are met except for which one?

Revenue is much larger than variable cost

Which of the following is one of the dimensions depicted on a product-process matrix?

volume

A layout is sometimes referred to as a job shop.

workcenter

A production environment where preassembled components, subassemblies, and modules are put together in response to a specific customer order.

assemble to order

A standard approach to choosing among alternative processes or equipment that uses fixed cost, variable costs, and revenue is known as

breakeven analysis

Which of the following goods would a continuous process be used?

chemicals

The customer order point determines where inventory is positioned to allow processes or entities in the supply chain to operate independently.

decoupling

Here the firm works with the customer to design the product, which is then made from purchased material, parts and components.

engineer to order

The number of finished products is usually substantially than the number of components combined to produce the finished product.

greater

The higher the fixed cost, the the break-even volume.

higher

The higher the variable cost, the the break-even volume.

higher

time is the time needed to respond to a customer order.

lead

The time needed to respond to a customer order is called the

lead time

The higher the per unit revenue, the the break-even volume.

lower

A production environment where the product is built directly from raw materials and components in response to a specific customer order.

make to order

Firms that make the customer's product from raw materials, parts, and components are called

make to order

A production environment where the customer is served "on-demand" from finished goods inventory.

make to stock

The issue of balancing the level of finished inventory against the level of service to the customer occurs in which type of firm?

make to stock

Which type of firm invests in lean manufacturing programs in order to improve customer service levels for a given inventory investment?

make to stock

Place the following production methods in order starting with the one having inventory closest to the customer and then moving back to the one with inventory closest to the source.

make to stock assemble make to order engineer to order

Place the following production methods in order starting with the one having the highest level of inventory investment and moving down to the one with the lowest inventory investment.

make to stock assemble make to order engineer to order

In the make-to-order and engineer-to-order environments, the customer order decoupling point could be in either raw materials at the manufacturing site or possibly even with the inventory.

supplier

True or false: Manufacturing processes are used to make tangible goods.

true