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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what is not part of job design | determine the best person suited for the job |
| job inventory control clerk | technical feasibility |
| automation helps reduce employee labor cost. What is not a reason for moving towards increasing automations | low volume tasks |
| in order to foster greater sense of responsibility, employee is gien more responsibility of not only performing tasks, but scheduling the job. what method to reduce boredom is being most heavily utilized? | job enrichment |
| finding the best way to do the job is called? | method analysis |
| the length of time of a qualified worker, working at normal pace | standard time |
| production job was timed to determine a baseline measure of the productivity of the job. times were taken for 5 cycles of a job/ | 15 |
| what would be the normal time for the task | 11.7 |
| what would be the standard time | 14.04 |
| what would be the production rate | 3418 units/day |
| what would be the labor cost per unit of production? | $0.0281 |
| some jobs are not routine and do not have a repetitive cycle. if a measurement of their work was still desired, what would be the best method? | work sampling |
| if learning curve is 80%, average time to complete units 1-4 is 5.9 hours, what would be the average time per unit for completing units 4-8? | 5.9*(.8)^2=3.776 |
| the mtd lawmower plant has many lawnmowers oving down the assembly line at any given time with part bins along the line for evenutal assembly. these lawnmowers would best be described as what type of inventory? | work in progress |
| at any given time, walmart has many trucks on the road loaded with merchandise being taken to retail stores. this inventory is primarily being used as? | safety stock inventory |
| hubbel lighting uses inventory turnover. what is the inventory turnover rate? | 4 |
| which inventory cost is the most difficult cost to measure | ordering cost |
| different approaches to ordering are utilized. if a company only orders exactly what is needed by using kanbans, which order system are they utilizing | lot for lot |
| what would be the total average demand for the product? | 22 |
| customer service level of 70% owith lead time of one day. how much inventory is needed at the start of the day | 30 |
| what would be the target inventory level for the company? | 500 |
| what would be the order quantity for the coming week? | 530 |
| the basic EOQ model attempts to minimize the total inventory costs. the optimum order quantity Q* occurs at the point where? | ordering costs are equal to holding costs |
| what is the economic order quantity | 1414 |
| what will be the average inventory | 375 |
| what is reorder point? | 114.76 |
| in the eoq model the square root function ensures that the demand, ordering, and holding costs may vary slightly but those variations will not affect the actual order quantity as much. therefore? | the order quantity q is relatively insensitive to changes |
| inventory is often classified into different categories of control based on their total cost impact on the store or some other measure . this categorization system is called? | abc inventory system |
| in lean inventory management, the goal is to reduce inventory to zero. thus to strive to achieve a lean approach, the company should strive to reduce which costs? | ordering costs |
| high volume operations generally have fixed routings for the product flow and commonly use line balancing to design the process around bundles. how would you best characterize a lawnmower anufacturing operation? | high volume |
| which type of loading provides a preview of the possible bottlenecks? | infinite loading |
| the difference in times is known as? | slack |
| which priority rule gives the best results for the average flow time, waiting time and wip? | shortest processing time |
| determine order? | daceb |
| what is the sequence of jobs that will minimize the makespan and average idle time using johnsons rule? | acbde |
| if sequence is abcde, how many hours before creating c? | 4 |
| if sequence is abcde, how many hours can you begin printing A? | 2 |
| if sequence is abcde, what will be the flow time for job a? | 3 |
| eli goldratt? | throughput |
| in service scheduling, doctors try to smooth out peaks and valleys in demand? | appointments and reservations |
| the natural order between activities, where some tasks must be complete before others can begin is called? | precedence relationships |
| which of the following are benefits of PERT/CPM | all of the above |
| which activities represent the beginning of the project | a and b |
| what is the ef for activity c? | 8 |
| if critical path is beg, what is the late start for activity h? | 12 |
| for activities that are not on the critical path? | EF-ES>0 |
| what is the expected completion time for C? | 3.167 |
| what is the activity variance for D? | .25 |
| activities on the critical path? | have no slack |