Operartions Final

Front 1

Which of the competitive dimension is the capability to change the scope of product that firms can product

Back 1

flexibility and new product introduction

Front 2

The Goods-Services continuum consists of which set of the following categories?

Back 2

Pure goods, core goods, core services, pure service

Front 3

Which of the following is defined as core goods?

Back 3

data storage systems

Front 4

What is the term to achieve high volume production using minimal inventories of parts

Back 4

JIT

Front 5

Which of the following is not a major strategic operational competitive dimension that forms a company's competitive position?

Back 5

Management acument

Front 6

Which of the following is partial measure of productivity?

Back 6

output/materials

Front 7

Which of the following is a total measure of productivity?

Back 7

output/inputs

Front 8

If all you knew about a production system was the total daily output was 400 units and the total labor necessary to produce the 400 units was 350 hours, what kind of productivity measure could you use to compute productivity?

Back 8

partial measure

Front 9

The total output from a production system in one day is 500 units and the total labor necessary to produce the 500 units is 250 hours. Using the appropriate productivity measure, which of the following numbers represents the resulting productivity ratio?

Back 9

400/350= 1.429

Front 10

Various financial data for SunPath Manufacturing for 2012 and 2013 are as follows:

What is the percentage change in SunPath's total productivity measure between 2012 and 2013?

Back 10

2.4%

Front 11

Which of the following is the production ramp up phase?

Back 11

product is made using the intended production system

Front 12

Which of the following is not an example of process-intensive products?

Back 12

semiconductors

Front 13

Which of the following is not a typical phases of product development?

Back 13

value engineering

Front 14

Semiconductors are produced in a continuous process at a high volume rather than a discrete process. What type of product is this?

Back 14

process-intensive product

Front 15

A project starts out as a statement of work. What is a work breakdown structure?

Back 15

A definition of hierarchy of project tasks, subtasks, and work packages.

Front 16

A series of projects that are organized in such a way that each project utilizes people from different functional areas is using which of the following organizational structures

Back 16

matrix project

Front 17

You are looking at a chart that the terms BCWS, BCWP, and AC indicating lines on the chart. What kind of chart is this?

Back 17

EVM Chart

Front 18

You have just performed CPM analysis and have found that more than one path through the project network has zero slack values. What can you conclude?

Back 18

More that one path is optimal

Front 19

Capacity is NOT

Back 19

the number of cars that can be produced in manufacturing

Front 20

In capacity flexibility, what flexibility is related to economies of scope?

Back 20

flexible process

Front 21

Which of the following models uses schematic model sequence of steps in a problem and the conditions and consequences of each step?

Back 21

Decision trees

Front 22

Compared with a service operation, a manufacturing operations capacity is which of the following?

Back 22

More capable of reacting to demand fluctuations

Front 23

What is an important difference between capacity planning in services and capacity planning in manufacturing operations?

Back 23

all of these

Front 24

You have just timed a person doing a job a few times. The first time it took the person 25 minutes, the second time it took 20 minutes, and the third time it took the person 17.55 minutes. Which learning curve unit improvement factor should you use?

Back 24

80%

Front 25

Which of the following is not considered a major work flow structure?

Back 25

fabricaiton

Front 26

Using the assembly-line balancing procedure, which of the following is the theoretical minimum number of workstations if the task times for the six tasks that make up the job are 4,6,7,2,6, and 5 minutes, and the cycle time is 10 minutes?

Back 26

30/10=3

Front 27

Sensitivity analysis of the base case financial model is

Back 27

all of the above are correct

Front 28

QFD is not

Back 28

quality fact development

Front 29

The sequence to develop a house of quality is

Back 29

customer requirements

importance to customer

competitive evaluation

technical characteristices

correlation

relations between

techincal evaluation

importance weigh

Front 30

VA/VE is

Back 30

seeing the value in the end product

Front 31

DFMA is

Back 31

seeing the value in the design stage

Front 32

Capacity is

Back 32

all of the above are correct

Front 33

Which of the following models uses a schematic model of the sequence of steps in a problem and the conditions and consequences of each step?

Back 33

decision trees

Front 34

Compared with a service operation, a manufacturing operations capacity is which of the following?

Back 34

demand can be smoothed by inventory policies

Front 35

What is an important difference between capacity planning in services as contrasted to capacity planning in manufacturing operations?

Back 35

all of the above

Front 36

Which of the following computational methods are used to calculate learning curve statistics?

Back 36

logarithms

Front 37

The first and second timings of a person doing a job are 20 minutes and 18 minutes respectively, what is the learning-adjusted time estimate for unit number 40?

Back 37

11.4 minutes

Front 38

A company can product a small lot of products the first time at a cost of $15,000. If their 60% learning curve allows them to reduce their costs on each lot, what is the total cost of producing 10 lots?

Back 38

$57,195