Midterms

Question 1

Scientific study and body of knowledge of human abilities, limitations, and characteristics for the appropriate design of the living

Answer 1

Ergonomics

Question 2

Study of problems of people to their environment

Question 3

Science that seeks to adapt work or working conditions to suit the worker

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Ergonomics

Question 4

Focuses on safety and comfort of workers

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Ergonomics

Question 5

Concentrates on human performance

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Human factors

Question 6

Emerged from a military background

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Human factors

Question 7

Aspect of ergonomics to ensure safe working environments

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Safety

Question 8

Aspect of ergonomics that focuses on the human body’s physical structure

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Anatomical factors

Question 9

Study on human body movement

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Anthropometry

Question 10

Study on exertion of forces by the body

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Biomechanics

Question 11

Study on the body’s ability to produce energy and use it for performance of work

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Physiology of effort

Question 12

Study on the influence of work environment on the body

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Industrial physiology

Question 13

Uses techniques like method study and work measurement to understand human work potential

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Work study

Question 14

Scientific process to better job design

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Method study

Question 15

Born in Fairfield Maine on 1868

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Frank Bunker Gilbreth

Question 16

Studied fastest workers to teach maximum efficiency

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Frank Gilbreth

Question 17

Technique which involved attaching flashing lights to a workers fingers

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Cylograph technique

Question 18

Book written by the Gilbreth children

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Cheaper by the dozen

Question 19

Father of scientific management

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Frederick Winslow Taylor

Question 20

Made sure that employees were putting in fair days work

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Frederick Taylor

Question 21

Used to directly observe tasks and record the time to complete them

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Time study technique

Question 22

Combination of time study technique and motion and fatigue study

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Time and motion study technique

Question 23

Remained a fundamental practice for modern lean organizations

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Time and motion study technique

Question 24

Used to determine the best methods for completing actions within the required time

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Time and motion studies

Question 25

Scientific approach to measuring recording and analyzing the time It takes to perform actions

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Time study

Question 26

Understanding the movement that take place when actions are performed

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Motion study

Question 27

Affects the machine operation maintenance, quality and efficiency

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Physical process

Question 28

Required a compact comfortable work environment

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Dexterity

Question 29

Combines a sequence of operations

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Manufacturing process

Question 30

Study of the properties of solid msterials

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Industrial materials and processes

Question 31

Subject of professional safety studies

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Basic occupational safety and health

Question 32

Leading factor for building a good OSH

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Industrial engineering

Question 33

Hierarchy: to eliminate hazard from a process

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Elimination of hazard

Question 34

Hierarchy: substitute risk with safer slternative

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Substitution of hazard

Question 35

Hierarchy: put control on the hazard

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Engineering control

Question 36

Hierarchy: enforcing workforce to comply with safety standards

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Administrative control

Question 37

Hierarchy: involves wearing safeguards

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Ensuring personal protective equipment

Question 38

Design to serve the target customers needs

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Supply chain

Question 39

Area that deals with the production of goods and services

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Operations management

Question 40

Concerned with managing the process that converts inputs into output

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Operations management

Question 41

About the technical method for achieving success in quality control

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Quality control

Question 42

Supply chain strategy that is Appropriate for change that are focused on execution efficiencies and cost performance

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Stable

Question 43

Supply chain strategy that works well when the chain acts to fulfill demand from trade partners

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Reactive

Question 44

Supply chain strategy that focuses on the efficiency in cost management and on the total delivered cost of finished goods

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Efficient reactive

Question 45

Arrangement in which the supply chain of a company is owned by that company

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Vertical supply chain management

Question 46

Expanding a business by acquiring a similar company in the same industry

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Horizontal integration management

Question 47

Stages of supply chain where organization lacks internal definition and goals

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Multiple dysfunction

Question 48

Stage of supply chain management where there is an improvement and effectiveness efficiency and quality within function areas

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Semi functional enterprise

Question 49

A stage of supply chain management where it is fully integrated between departments using enterprise resource planning

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Integrated entrprise

Question 50

Stage of supply chain management for there is a complete sharing of information across integrated networks

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Extended enterprise