Exam 7: Capacity and Facilities

Which of the following statements is most true?

The best operating level is the percent of capital cushion that minimizes unit cost.

Similar activities are grouped together in departments or work centers according to the function with a __________ layout.

A relationship diagram provides a standard format for displaying manager preferences for department locations.

Shipbuilding is an example of production system requiring a process layout.

A ________layout encourages customer familiarity,has low costs,and is easy to clean,

Block diagramming is a design tool for process layouts that takes into account the number of adjacent and non-adjacent moves.

Facility layout refers to the arrangement of machines,processes,departments,and other areas within a facility.

Precedence requirements reflect physical restrictions on the order in which operations are performed in a product layout.

The cycle time refers to the maximum amount of time a product is allowed to spend at each workstation.

With a ___________ layout activities arranged in a line according to the sequence of operations.

Capacity can be increased in one large step or incrementally.

Which one of the following factors is not important to the design and operation of a mixed-model assembly line?

With a product layout the purpose of line balancing is to equalize the amount of work at each workstation.

Increasing capacity utilization beyond the best operating level results in diseconomies of scale.

Briefly describe facility layout and the different objectives involved with facility layout decision.

An assembly line consists of three workstations WS)with each station's activity time as shown. The flow time for items on this line would be

Which of the following is not an "area" of advantage of cellular layouts?

Most service organizations use

General as opposed to specific purpose equipment is typically found in a process layout.