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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Some organizations prefer to delay capacity investment until demand materializes. This  refers to

Leading strategy

Following strategy

Incremental or one-step expansion

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Following strategy

often inhibit growth because adding capacity takes time and customers won’t usually wait

actually attracts growth of demand

straddles demand by building capacity that is “average”, sometimes lagging demand and sometimes leading it.

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Design capacity

Is the maximum output rate or service capacity an operation, process, or facility is designed for

Is the maximum output rate or service capacity an operation, process, or facility is designed for minus allowances such as personal time, and maintenance

Is the maximum output rate or service capacity an operation, process, or facility is designed for minus minus allowances such as machine breakdowns, absenteeism, shortages of materials

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Restaurant`s measures of capacity in inputs are

Number of tables, seating capacity

Number of meals served per day

Number of customers served per day

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Capacity planning in the intermediate range assumes that we can

add equipment, personnel and shifts

schedule jobs and people, allocate machinery

add facilities and equipment that have a long lead time

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The throughput time is

the time that the unit spends actually being worked on together with the time spent waiting in a queue  (average time for a unit to move through the system)

the output rate that the process is expected to produce over a period of time

the ratio of the total throughput time to the value-added time

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The throughput rate is

the time that the unit spends actually being worked on together with the time spent waiting in a queue  (average time for a unit to move through the system)

the output rate that the process is expected to produce over a period of time

the ratio of the total throughput time to the value-added time

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