Verita Nist, an Automobile Company, Sought to Improve the Production

Multiple Choice

Verita Nist, an automobile company, sought to improve the production time and quality of its products within a year. In the first month, the company installed five new assembling machines. This reduced the production time by 15 percent. In the context of the language of the Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) and the Critical Path Method (CPM) , this decrease in the production time of Verita Nist's products is an example of a(n) _____.

A) task
B) activity
C) critical path
D) event
E) throughput