Exam 15: Achieving World-class Operations Management

Which of the following is a disadvantage associated with the flexible manufacturing system?

Which of the following is a production technique that uses small, self-contained work stations and has each perform all or most of the tasks necessary to complete a manufacturing order?

Total quality management says that quality is the responsibility solely of the production and shipping departments.

Products that are difficult to move out of a plant once they are manufactured, such as ocean-going vessels and room-sized murals, are usually manufactured in which of the following layouts?

What does total quality management focus on?

A job shop uses an intermittent production process.

What is the goal of inventory management?

The critical path method is a sophisticated scheduling system that is based on the minimum time the project will take to complete.

What is a manufacturer that uses the intermittent process to produce special customer orders?

Asset management software systems are beginning to fix the problem of wasted or misused assets.

Replacing humans is most effective for tasks that require which of the following?

A production process in which the basic input are either combined to create the output or transformed into the output is called assembly process.

Which of the following is the opposite of mass production?

What is the supply of goods that a company holds for use in production or for sale to customers?

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

How does materials requirement planning differ from enterprise resource planning?

The critical path method is used to design, test, and modify new and existing products.

Underlying the success of supply chain management is the ability to use enterprise resource planning systems to monitor for changes in supplier product quality.

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

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