Exam 17: Cycle-Time Management Increases Productivity

Time-based management is dependent on cycle time design and control.

Cycle time can be no less than total work content time.

There is often support to spend freely on line-balancing temporary flow shops at the same level as permanent ones.

The behavior of single channel systems can be described as an input-output system with variable arrivals and variable service times.

Market Research operators use IFS processing only when a report has _____ regions and a _____ of products being compared.

If demand volume justifies it,the high-volume,properly-balanced flow shop is the best work configuration to obtain lowest costs and best quality.

With the K & W heuristic,when an operation with the smallest number of predecessors has too long an operation time to be included in the station,the heuristic is programmed to look for the operation with the next smallest number of predecessors that fits the available time at the station and observes precedent constraints.

_____ begins by characterizing arrival rates for service according to the type of variability.

Cycle times of inbound and outbound supplies are interconnected with the fundamentals of the production line.

Production systems that signal for delivery from upstream stations are known as pull-production systems.

When does stochastic line balancing exist?

It is always beneficial to have some short operations that can be assigned to workstations more readily than long ones.

What assumption is deterministic line balancing based on? Why?

Cycles do not exist in the repetitive intervals between placing an order and receiving supplies.

Line-balancing is the effort to nearly equalize the output rate capabilities of successive workstations on the production line.

_____ line-balancing exists when the assumption of fixed and deterministic times for operations and total process time is not correct.

Define the permutability of columns.How does it effect ordering of precedence requirements?