Production Planning And Workflow
MSSC
A process's ________________ is the rate at which a production system creates a finished
product. - ✔✔Capacity
_______________ is a method of organizing the production of a simil
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Production Planning And Workflow
MSSC
A process's ________________ is the rate at which a production system creates a finished
product. - ✔✔Capacity
_______________ is a method of organizing the production of a similar group of products in a
cell, or work cell, that contains all the machines that are needed to produce that group of
products. - ✔✔cellular manufacturing
In a production process, the time required to create a finished product is determined by the
slowest processing station. The slowest station is called a ____________ , therefore limits the
maximum rate of production. - ✔✔Bottleneck
Companies use ______________ to show data about progress of production. - ✔✔job status
reports
Reallocation of resources is the best way to ___________. - ✔✔increase production if current
production cannot meet the demand
Manufacturing paths are indicated by _____________ documents. - ✔✔process flow
Only the supervisor or a person in the quality assurance department can decide if a part on hold
should be __________. - ✔✔Scrapped or reworked
The operation number column in the routing sheet contains the operation number, also a
__________ number, which indicates its place in the manufacturing process. - ✔✔Sequence
Red tags are used to indicate scrapped parts while a yellow tag indicates a part that _____. -
✔✔has been placed on hold
Machine time, quality requirements, and task time are __________. - ✔✔Required documents
for a process
A part that is out-of-spec can either be scrapped or _____________. - ✔✔Reworked to bring the
part within the specifications
On a bill of materials, the ___________ indicates which parts form each subassembly. - ✔✔Part
level number
A _____________ is a list of all the materials and components required to make the product and
quality of each. - ✔✔Bill of materials
Spare parts used in repair work are typically included in the calculation of ________________. -
✔✔Production downtime
For a 365-day year with 30 days of scheduled downtime, what is the availability? - ✔✔335 days
minus unscheduled downtime
Due to the increase in gasoline costs, a part vendor is offsetting his delivery costs by increasing
the price of all his products 15%. If the cost of the parts we're buying was $18.50/unit, what will
the cost be after the price increase? - ✔✔$21.28
The accuracy of a time study is improved if you time ___________ doing the same job. -
✔✔More than one worker
The average time a specific job takes is determined by ____________. - ✔✔Time and motion
studies
A system that supplies quality products using a pull system instead of the traditional push system
of production flow is _____________. - ✔✔JIT or just in time
An increase in the number of inspections is likely to do all the following except? - ✔✔Reduce
the number of parts that are out of spec
Companies strive to eliminate waste and non value added work through a process of
________________. - ✔✔Continuous improvement
As part of a ____________, manufacturer's see end of the line inspections as one form of waste.
- ✔✔Lean manufacturing process
Machine downtime due to failures results in _____________. - ✔✔Lower productivity per labor
hour
Reducing the amount of non-value work in a process _______________. - ✔✔Is a method of
improving the process
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