QUIZ 1 OM

Multiple Choice

What layout strategy deals with low-volume, high-variety production

• fixed-position layout

• retail layout

• warehouse layout

• office layout

• process-oriented layout

Multiple Choice

The main goal of retail layout is ...

• minimizing material handling cost

• minimizing customer confusion regarding location of items

• minimizing storage costs

• minimizing space required

• maximizing profitability per square foot of floor space

Multiple Choice

The major problem addresed by the warehouse layout strategy is...

• minimizing difficulties caused by material flow varying with each product

• requiring frequent close contact between forklift drivers and item pickers

• addressing trade-offs between space and material handling

• balancing product flow from one work station to the next

• locating the docks near a convenient access point to the closest highway

Multiple Choice

Because problems with fixed-position layouts are so difficult to solve well onsite, operations managers

• virtually never employ this layout strategy

• utilize this approach only for construction projects such as bridges and office towers

• increase the size of the site

• often complete as much of the project as possible off site

• utilize this layout only for defense contractors

Multiple Choice

The main issue in designing process-oriented layouts concerns the relative positioning of ...

• safety devices

• departments or work centers

• raw materials

• entrances, loading docks, etc

• supervisors to their employees

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is NOT an advantage of work cells?

• reduced direct labor cost

• decreased equipment and machinery utilization

• heightened sense of employee participation

• reduced raw material and finished goods inventory

• reduced investment in machinery and equipment

Multiple Choice

A work cell is required to make 300 computerized diagnostic assemblies (for installation into hybrid automobiles) each day. The cell currently works an eight hour shift, of which 6.5 hours is available for productive work. What is takt time for this cell?

• 96 seconds

• 0.77 seconds

• 46.15 seconds

• 78 seconds

• 1.3 second

Multiple Choice

The central problem in product-oriented layout planning is:

• minimizing material handling within workstations.

• minimizing labor movement between workstations

• equalizing the space allocated to the different workstations

• maximizing equipment utilization

• minimizing the imbalance in the workloads among workstations

Multiple Choice

In assembly-line balancing, cycle time (the ratio of available production time to scheduled production) is the

• minimum time that a product is allowed at each workstation

• maximum time that a product is allowed at each workstation

• inverse of the minimum number of workstations needed

• sum of all the task times divided by the maximum number of workstations.

• equivalent of the maximum task time among all tasks

Multiple Choice

A production line is to be designed to make 375 El-More dolls per day. Each doll requires 11 activities totaling 16 minutes of work. The factory operates 750 minutes per day. What is the required cycle time for this assembly line?

• 0.5 minute

• 1.5 minute

• 2 minutes

• 5,500 minutes

• 4.26 minutes