Exam 6: Process Selection and Facility Layout

For output to equal projected demand, what should be the actual cycle time for this assembly line?

Given the information below, assign departments to locations in a 3 x 3 grid, with department F in the lower right hand corner.

The goal of line balancing is to assign tasks to workstations in such a way that the workstations have approximately equal time requirements.

The substitution of machinery that has sensing and control devices for human labor is best described by the term:

For output to equal projected demand, what will be the efficiency of the assembly line that uses the minimum number of workstations?

The term computer aided manufacturing (CAM) refers primarily to the use of robotics in process control.

A Job-Shop processing system generally requires less skilled workers than a continuous processing system.

Without considering forecasted demand, what is the minimum possible cycle time for this production line?

Which of these items would be most likely to be made with a fixed position layout?

A group of machines including supervisory computer control, automatic material handling, and possibly robots is called:

Morale problems can be a reason for redesign of a facility layout.

The grouping of equipment by the operations needed to perform similar work for part families is:

The main issue in the design of process layouts concerns the relative positioning of the departments involved.

Without regard to projected demand, what is the minimum possible cycle time for this assembly line?

Product layouts involve high utilization of labor and equipment.

Cycle time is the maximum time allowed for each workstation to complete its work on each unit.

Which phrase most closely describes flexible manufacturing systems?

For eight hours of operating time per day and a desired output rate of 960 units per day, what is the efficiency for the balance which uses the minimum number of stations?

Although they do not guarantee optimal solutions, ______________ are useful in finding reasonable solutions when the number of possible options is overwhelming.

Repetitive processing systems usually produce goods specifically for customer orders rather than for inventory.