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In manufacturing,a __________ is used to produce large quantities of a few types of products.

A) assembly-line layout
B) process layout
C) modular layout
D) fixed-position layout

E) A) and B)
F) B) and C)

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The Deming Cycle is:

A) a checklist that enables managers to evaluate employee performance more systematically.
B) a systematic method of evaluating potential facility locations.
C) a process for finding potential quality errors before they occur.
D) a process for using identical production steps in the creation of different types of products.

E) A) and B)
F) B) and D)

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Alex is a production manager who believes his firm uses more of all types of resources than is necessary to produce its products.He would like to find a way to cut back on labor,and reduce the firm's investment in tools and space as well.It seems that Edwin would like to adopt:

Operations managers have learned that quality control is not a never- ending process.Just before you add packaging to the finished product,official company inspectors do a random spot-check.All inspections have to occur at the end of a production run because,only then can the inspector see the total finished product in order to determine if quality is jeopardized.

Contemporary manufacturers in the U.S.lack the flexibility to use intermittent production processes.

Sparky knows that installing the new equipment and training workers to use it efficiently will be a long and complex process consisting of many different tasks.Which of the following methods would help him determine how long this project is likely to take?

A disadvantage of flexible manufacturing systems is that they usually require a great deal of labor because machines are rarely capable of handling a wide variety of tasks.

At Stevens Manufacturing workers are organized in teams that combine their efforts to produce complex units of a final product.Stevens is using a facility layout known as an) :

Production creates:

Superior Supplies' largest customer recently implemented a just-in-time inventory system.As a supplier of materials to this customer,Superior Supplies' will:

Jamal,an operations manager for a product manufacturer accepted an operations position with a company that produces a service.Jamal will find that operations management at the new job is significantly different from operations management at the old firm.

PERT is a popular technique for analyzing the tasks involved to complete a given project,estimating the time required to complete each task,and identifying the minimum time needed to complete the project.

For many firms,operations management has become an interfirm process.

The U.S.economy is now dominated by the _________ sector.

According to the Making Ethical Decisions box,titled,"Stay or Leave",by law a firm must give employees 60 days notice of a facility or plant closing.

The three basic requirements of production are: 1)creating a finished good 2)making sure you created it at the lowest cost possible,and 3)selling it.

___________ is a technique to analyze and sequence tasks involved in completing a project,to estimate the time needed to complete each task,and to determine the minimum amount of time needed to complete each project.

Trace and Tim own a company that rehabs old houses.Prior to buying a house,they use software to create and design the renovation of each room.The program provides them with an estimation of how much of each kind of material is needed,and the orderly progression of tasks that need to be completed.Trace and Tim use computer-aided design.

Companies that achieve lean manufacturing use less of everything raw materials,labor,etc. )to produce the same amount of products.

The production process requires inputs,controls,and outputs.