OPMA 3306 CH. 6 T/F Part 2
The focus in the make-to-stock environment is on providing finished goods where and when the customers want them.
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The objective of mixed-model line balancing is to meet the demand for a variety of products and avoid building high inventories.
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The term "assembly line" refers to progressive assembly linked by some material handling device.
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Workstation cycle time is the time between successive units coming off the end of the assembly line.
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A process map shows the physical location of the various processes within a supply chain.
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The assembly-line balancing procedure determines the precedence relationships of manufacturing tasks.
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A high-level map or diagram of a supply chain process can be useful to understand how material flows and where inventory is held.
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In assembly-line balancing the theoretical minimum number of workstations is found by a ratio of the sum of all task times divided by the cycle time.
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In designing a production layout a flexible line layout might have the shape of a "U".
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In designing a production line mixed-model line balancing might be used by JIT manufacturers.
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Little's law can be thought of as a relationship between units and time.
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If the sum of the task times required to produce a product is 80 minutes and the cycle time for the same product is 15 minutes, the theoretical minimum number of workstations is 8 using the assembly-line balancing procedure.
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In balancing an assembly line, workstation cycle time has to be less than the time between successive units coming off the end of the line.
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Little's law states that supply chain processes can be regarded as unrelated and thus treated and analyzed separately.
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The efficiency of an assembly-line is found by a ratio of the sum of all task times divided by the cycle time.
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The essential issue in satisfying customers in the make-to-stock environment is to balance the cost of the finished item against the willingness of the consumer to pay for it.
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An example of an assemble-to-order firm is Dell Computer.
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Assembling-to-order means moving the customer order decoupling point from finished goods to components.
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For the purposes of assembly-line balancing, the required workstation cycle time is found by dividing production time per day by the required units of output per day.
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If the sum of the task times required to produce a product is 45 minutes and the cycle time for the same product is 10 minutes. Thus, the theoretical minimum number of workstations is 5 using the assembly-line balancing procedure.
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The essential issue in satisfying customers in the make-to-stock environment is to balance the level of finished inventory against the level of service to the customer.
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The first step in balancing an assembly line is to specify the precedence relationships among tasks to be performed on the line.
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