Exam 15: Achieving World-Class Operations Management

Starcrest Publishing is one of many companies that will take demographic information about your child and publish a story written about that child.The story is already written,and a computer is used to insert the relevant information into the spaces left blank.Starcrest Publishing uses which of the following processes?

Production efficiency begins as soon as the first part of the product reaches the factory floor.

Lumber mills are located near the forests in the Northwest to save shipping costs and to be near their raw material.

Which of the following shops is a manufacturing company that engages in customization?

Production and operations management involves three main types of decisions that are made at three different stages.The first type of decision to be made involves which of the following?

What do Gantt charts and PERT charts have in common?

Which of the following approaches uses a master computerized system to ensure that materials,labour,and equipment are available for production?

Cellular manufacturing combines aspects of which of the following?

Production and operations management involves three main types of decisions that are made at three different stages.The final stage of operations management focuses on which of the following?

There is a standard approach to butchering a steer; however,after standardized preparation,the meat is tailored to meet individual needs and desires.This is an example of which type of production?

In which type of production are goods produced using mass-production techniques up to a point,then production is custom tailored to the needs or desires of individual customers?

Which of the following is the management of the production conversion process for both goods and services?

What kind of layout does Bombardier use when it is building an aircraft?

Suppose a part is redesigned in the computer-aided design system,and the changes are quickly transmitted both to the machines producing the part and to all other departments that need to know about and plan for the change.Which of the following systems is being used?

Which of the following is a useful tool for routing,where production managers "map" the flow from suppliers through the factory to customers?

List two commonly used techniques for streamlining a business's production.

In the production of cornmeal for baking,corn is ground.This conversion process is an example of which of the following processes?

Service companies generally use a repetitive or intermittent production process rather than the continuous process.

What is the first step in controlling production?

Which of the following is a list of components and the number of each needed for file cabinets to be produced by a manufacturing company?