Chapter 39

What is a manufacturing cell?

An FMS (Flexible Manufacturing System) is capable of optimizing these steps, except

• Grinding the material

• Cutting the material

• Forming the material

• Searching the material

The capabilities of cellular manufacturing typically involve the following operations:

• Loading and unloading raw materials and workpieces at workstations

• Changing tools at workstations

• Transferring workpieces and tooling between workstations

• Scheduling and controlling the total operation in the cell.

• No correct answer

Which is not the fundamental observations about Holonic Manufacturing Systems?

• Holons are simultaneously self-contained wholes of their subordinated parts and dependent parts of other systems.

• Holons is controlled by a central computer, and the operations are performed by automated guided vehicle

• A holarchy consists of (a) autonomous wholes in charge of their parts and (b) dependent parts controlled by higher levels of a hierarchy

• Complex systems will evolve from simple systems much more rapidly if there are stable intermediate forms than if there are none

What is a manufacturing holon?

What is the basic elements of FMS (flexible manufacturing system)?

• automated handling and transport of materials and parts

• workstations and cells

• unusual system support for the system

• control systems

Which is not an FMS major benefit?

• None of these answer

• Parts can be produced in any order, in batch sizes as small as one, and at a lower unit cost

• Direct labor and inventories are reduced or eliminate

• The lead times required for product changes are shorter

JIT (just-in-time) also called...

• one inventory

• zero inventory

• whale inventory

• maximum inventory

The JIT (just-in-time) concept has the following goals:

• Produce and deliver finished products just in time to be sold.

• Produce parts just in time to be made into subassemblies

• Receive supplies just in time to be used

• Produce subassemblies just in time to be assembled into finished product

Which step is not the lean manufacturing step?

• . Identify value

• search for backup process

• Establish pull

• Identify value streams

• Make the value stream flow