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WorksheetsIntroduction to Industrial Engineering 2
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 8mins
Who is generally credited as the pioneer of Industrial Engineering through their concept of "Scientific Management"?
Eli Whitney
Frank Gilbreth
Frederick W. Taylor
Hugo Diemer
The concept of "interchangeability of parts" was first successfully implemented in the manufacturing of:
Steam engines
Textiles
Muskets and pistols
Railroad cars
Frank and Lillian Gilbreth are best known for their development and use of which technique?
Time Study
Motion Study
Inventory Systems
Cost Control
Who started the first continuing curriculum in Industrial Engineering at Pennsylvania State College in 1908?
Frederick Taylor
William Kent
Hugo Diemer
Lillian Gilbreth
A major outcome of the application of Scientific Management principles after World War I was:
A decrease in production
A focus on good production methods
Spectacular increases in production
The elimination of vertical integration
The core of Frederick Taylor's system consisted of:
Paying strong attention to rules of thumb
Breaking down the production process and improving the efficiency of each part
Focusing solely on financial incentives for managers
Allowing workers to develop their own methods
Eli Whitney and Simeon North's system of interchangeable parts reduced the need for:
Raw materials
Specialized skills on the part of the workers
Government contracts
Quality control
Taylor's famous "classic experiment" at the Bethlehem Steel Corporation was related to improving the process of:
Assembling rifles
Melting iron ore
Shoveling coal
Managing personnel
The Gilbreths used which tool to meticulously analyze and measure fundamental worker motions?
A stopwatch
A survey
A motion-picture camera
A light meter
Scientific Management, as a philosophy, was based on the scientific study of work and also on the scientific:
Design of marketing campaigns
Selection, education, and development of workers
Pricing of finished goods
Acquisition of competing companies
Frank and Lillian Gilbreth categorized the elements of human motion into 18 basic elements called:
Gilbreaks
Motions
Therbligs
Ergos
Which of the following was NOT one of Taylor's contributions at Bethlehem Steel?
Development of incentive payment systems
The creation of training departments
The invention of the assembly line
The creation of personnel departments for worker selection
The developments in Motion Study are considered the beginning of the broader field known as:
Supply Chain Management
Human Factors or Ergonomics
Total Quality Management
Operations Research
In addition to Hugo Diemer, who also organized an IE curriculum in 1908, at Syracuse University?
Frederick Taylor
William Kent
Eli Whitney
Frank Gilbreth
A negative consequence of Scientific Management's focus on output was that management paid little attention to:
The importance of good methods in production
Implementing standards
Developing incentive plans
Increasing production rates
Taylor's work focused on analyzing and improving the efficiency of work units, while Whitney's work focused on standardizing material units. This analogy highlights:
Their personal rivalry
The different but complementary nature of their contributions to manufacturing
That Taylor's work was more important than Whitney's
That Whitney's ideas were outdated
The unethical management practice of "rate cutting" involved:
Lowering prices for customers
Reducing workers' pay rates after they increased their output
Cutting the number of managers
Reducing the quality of raw materials to cut costs
The work of the Gilbreths "Permitting analysts to design jobs with knowledge of the time required to perform the job" combined the concepts of Motion Study with:
Time Study
Personnel selection
Facility layout
Inventory ordering
Legislation limiting the use of time standards in government operations was a direct result of:
The high cost of implementing time studies
Concerns over the dehumanizing aspects of Scientific Management
A surplus of industrial engineers
The invention of automated timing systems
A key philosophical difference in Taylor's approach was its insistence on:
Using rules of thumb for decision making
Examining each work component separately and eliminating useless movements
Allowing experienced workers to set the pace
Focusing only on mechanical efficiency, not human workers
The development of "jigs, fixtures, and other devices" by Taylor was meant to:
Improve worker comfort
Accelerate mechanical work and ensure consistency
Make products more aesthetically pleasing
Reduce the need for training
The post-WWI industrial norm became large-scale organizations that were vertically integrated and utilized:
Craft production techniques
Mass production techniques
Outsourced manufacturing
Experimental prototyping
The concept of creating "service departments" like tool rooms and personnel offices was part of Taylor's contribution to:
Corporate organizational structure
Marketing and sales strategy
Public relations
International trade
The Gilbreths' work extended the concepts of Scientific Management by focusing on a more detailed level of analysis: from tasks to fundamental __________.
Motions
Costs
Departments
Products
The primary reason management lost interest in "good methods" after WWI was because:
Methods engineering was too expensive
Significant production increases were already easy to achieve with standards and incentives
The Gilbreths' methods were too complex to implement
Workers refused to cooperate with methods changes
