Production and Operation Management Quiz

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01. What term describes a vertical expansion of job duties in order to give the worker more responsibility?

02. What are the two basic types of production systems?

03. What type of process would a paper mill be most likely to use?

04. What technique deals with the problem of supplying sufficient facilities to production lines or individuals that require uneven service?

05. A manufacturer has been receiving excessive numbers of defective standard machine parts from a vendor on a regular basis. What is the most effective way to design a formal inspection system for incoming parts?

06. A set of simultaneous equations that has more variables than constraints has,

07. In a PERT/CPM network, computing the critical path requires,

08. At the completion of the forward and backward passes, the slack for an activity is given by the,

09. What type of control chart is used to monitor the number of defects per unit?

10. A project has three paths: A—B—C has a length of 25 days. A—D—C has a length of 15 days. A—E—C has a length of 20 days. Which of the following statements is correct?

11. The operating characteristic (OC) curve shows the probability of,

12. If an artificial variable remains in the solution with a positive value after the stopping criterion has been reached, the problem,

13. What are the two sources of costs in queuing analysis?

14. The transportation model method that is used to evaluate location alternatives minimizes total,

15. What is simulation?

16. What priority rule is being used when jobs are processed according to the lowest ratio of due date to remaining processing time?

17. Moving from the aggregate plan to a master production schedule requires,

18. Which of the following statements is true of Lean-Six Sigma?

19. When the flow of materials is variable,

20. A fixed interval system,

21. Which of the following activities is NOT a direct responsibility of operations management?

22. A good layout requires determining,

23. Which of the following is not an element of management process?

24. The five element in the management process are,

25. Which of the following functions is NOT a core function of an organisation?

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