Question 1

Cindy's Ceramics produces a standard 4-inch diameter vase with custom decorations related to the season of the year.Her ceramic firing oven can fire four vases at a time.Each firing cycle takes 90 minutes.What is the average cycle time?

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Question 2

Process choice involves decisions about all of the following except

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A) Workers 
B) Technology 
C) Raw materials 
D) Job assignments 
E) Product marketing

Question 3

Describe outsourcing and give two reasons why its use has increased.

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Question 4

Ted's T-shirts makes custom shirts on equipment that costs $350.The material costs $8 per shirt and sells for $15 per shirt.If he makes 20 shirts,what is the total variable cost?

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Question 5

Ted's T-shirts makes custom shirts on equipment that costs $350.The material costs $8 per shirt and sells for $15 per shirt.What volume is required to make $1750 a week?

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Question 6

Which of the following is not an advantage of a product layout?

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A) Processing rates are faster than a process layout. 
B) Lower inventory requirements than a process layout. 
C) Less material handling than a process layout. 
D) More flexible than a process layout. 
E) More efficient than a process layout.

Question 7

Customers are generally an integral part of the process when delivering services.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

Which of the following is not a "service factory"?

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A) Hospital 
B) Movie theater 
C) Airline 
D) Hotel 
E) Fast food restaurant

Question 9

In a paced assembly process,if station A takes 2 minutes per unit,station B takes 1 minute per unit,and station C takes 3 minutes per unit,compute the utilization for each station and identify the bottleneck.

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Question 10

Ted's T-shirts makes custom shirts on equipment that costs $350.The material costs $8 per shirt and sells for $15 per shirt.How many shirts must be sold to break even?

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Question 11

Draw and identify three common flowcharting symbols.

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Question 12

Which of the following is not an advantage of a process layout?

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A) Uses general purpose equipment 
B) Less capital intensive than other layouts 
C) Highly flexible 
D) High risk of layout redesign for products with uncertain life cycles 
E) High capacity utilization

Question 13

Constructing a new building on a university campus is an example of a project.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

List three advantages of a product layout.

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Question 15

When a bottleneck is improved by adding another processing station in line with the original station,it is an example of

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A) Cycle time 
B) Reengineering 
C) Parallel processing 
D) Series processing 
E) Flowcharting

Question 16

Services are easily inventoried to buffer fluctuations in demand.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

Line processes generally produce high-volume goods using general purpose equipment.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

Which of the following does not describe a continuous process?

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A) Very capital intensive 
B) Very low unit cost 
C) Very standardized 
D) Very customized products 
E) Very inflexible

Question 19

Which of the following has the lowest unit cost for a discrete process?

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A) Project 
B) Job shop 
C) Batch 
D) Line flow 
E) Continuous flow

Question 20

A product made on an assembly line generally will have a lower unit cost than a product produced in a job shop.

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A) True 
 B)False

Exam 4: Process Design and Analysis

Cindy's Ceramics produces a standard 4-inch diameter vase with custom decorations related to the season of the year.Her ceramic firing oven can fire four vases at a time.Each firing cycle takes 90 minutes.What is the average cycle time?

Process choice involves decisions about all of the following except

Describe outsourcing and give two reasons why its use has increased.

Ted's T-shirts makes custom shirts on equipment that costs $350.The material costs $8 per shirt and sells for $15 per shirt.If he makes 20 shirts,what is the total variable cost?

Ted's T-shirts makes custom shirts on equipment that costs $350.The material costs $8 per shirt and sells for $15 per shirt.What volume is required to make $1750 a week?

Which of the following is not an advantage of a product layout?

Customers are generally an integral part of the process when delivering services.

Which of the following is not a "service factory"?

In a paced assembly process,if station A takes 2 minutes per unit,station B takes 1 minute per unit,and station C takes 3 minutes per unit,compute the utilization for each station and identify the bottleneck.

Ted's T-shirts makes custom shirts on equipment that costs $350.The material costs $8 per shirt and sells for $15 per shirt.How many shirts must be sold to break even?

Draw and identify three common flowcharting symbols.

Which of the following is not an advantage of a process layout?

Constructing a new building on a university campus is an example of a project.

List three advantages of a product layout.

When a bottleneck is improved by adding another processing station in line with the original station,it is an example of

Services are easily inventoried to buffer fluctuations in demand.

Line processes generally produce high-volume goods using general purpose equipment.

Which of the following does not describe a continuous process?

Which of the following has the lowest unit cost for a discrete process?

A product made on an assembly line generally will have a lower unit cost than a product produced in a job shop.