Operations Management Quiz

A technique used for evaluating a process in terms of the sequence of steps

from inputs to outputs with the goal of improving its design.

• Process selection

• Benchmarking

• Process flow analysis

• Product design

An approach that brings many people together in the early phase of product design in order to simultaneously design the product and the process.

• Idea development

• Process selection

• Research and development (R&D)

• Concurrent engineering

Sources can be from customers, competitors, or suppliers.

• Idea development

• Research and development (R&D)

• Design standardization

• Concurrent engineering

A series of guidelines that we should follow to produce a product easily and profitably.

• Concurrent engineering

• “Over‐the‐wall” approach

• Product screening

• Design for Manufacture (DFM)

The ease with which the product can be made.

• Design for Manufacture (DFM)

• Manufacturability

• Design standardization

• Product screening

Designed to produce a large volume of a standardized product for mass production. They are also known as flow shops, flow lines, or assembly lines.

• Continuous process

• Line process

• Batch process

• Project process

Designed to produce one or a few standardized products in high volume and uses specialized type of equipment.

• Repetitive Operations

• Line process

• Intermittent Operations

• Project process

The development of the process necessary to produce the designed product.

• Design simplification

• Design standardization

• Design for Manufacture

• Process selection

The use of common and interchangeable parts to achieve greater variety of products with less inventory and significantly lower cost and provide greater flexibility.

• Design for Manufacture

• Process selection

• Design standardization

• Design simplification

Demand levels are off and there are usually no design changes: the product is predictable at this stage and so is its market.

• Introductory

• Growth

• Maturity

• Decline