Exam 16: Production Scheduling for Manufacturing and Service Operations

Profit opportunity cost is the cost of assigning a job to a facility that results in not having the best possible profit.The opportunity cost is the difference between best and actual.

The span of protection in TOC is called the _____.It is varied to protect (plant activities) against disruption of the production processes.

Loading assigns work at the facilities and specifies the order in which jobs should be done.

The costs of not making the best possible assignments of a set of jobs to facilities and vice verse are opportunity costs.

When the SMH index is multiplied by the actual machine hours available per week,the _____ are obtained.

The bottleneck's processing rate is called _____ because _____.

If jobs are the rows and facilities are the columns of an assignment problem,(see Table 16-1),then _____ yields the opportunity costs at a given facility for assigning various jobs that are not the best jobs for that facility.

Bottlenecks need to be taken into account,and the goal of synchronized manufacturing requires coordination of the entire job shop with respect to the mix of jobs that is being orchestrated.

The matrix of total costs per day for jobs 1,2,and 3-if assigned at facilities A,B,and C of the Rivet and Nail Factory-is: What relatively permanent assignments will minimize total costs per day?

In column subtraction for finding the best jobs at a specific facility,column subtraction yields the opportunity costs at a given facility for assigning jobs that _____.

The average amount of time it takes to complete each job in the group is the mean flow time.

If the average completion tim e is as small as possible,the average customer's order is delayed the minimum necessary time.This can be a primary objective in determining rational loading priorities.

The assignment of work and its timing need to be orchestrated.

In facility loading,when work that is scheduled is not completed on time,_____.

_____ are essential to balance out the production differences between making simple and complex product.

Production scheduling plans are accomplished by the shop loading function and the sequencing function for the job shop.