Operation/Information Technology Flashcards
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What is mass production?
Mass production is a system for manufacturing products in large quantities through effective combinations of employees with specialized skills, mechanization, and standardization.
What is the difference between flexible production and customer-driven production?
Flexible production generally involves using technology to receive and fulfill orders and skilled people to carry out tasks needed to fill a particular order. Customer-driven production evaluates buyer demands in order to make the connection between products manufactured and products purchased.
What are the two main production systems?
The two systems are analytic production and synthetic production.
What are the two time-related production processes?
The two time-related production processes are the continuous production process and the intermittent production process.
List some of the reasons businesses invest in robots.
Businesses use robots to free people from boring, sometimes dangerous assignments and to perform tasks that require repeated manipulation of materials and tools
What is a flexible manufacturing system (FMS)?
An FMS is a production facility that can be quickly modified to manufacture different products.
What are the major benefits of computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM)?
The main benefits are increased productivity, decreased design costs, increased equipment utilization, and improved quality.
How does an environmental impact study influence the location decision?
An environmental impact study influences the location decision because it outlines how transportation, energy use, water and sewer treatment needs, and other factors will affect plants, wildlife, water, air, and other elements of the natural environment.
What human factors are relevant to the location decision?
Human factors include an area’s labor supply, labor costs, local regulations, taxes, and living conditions.
List the four major tasks of production and operations managers.
- planning the overall production processed
- determining the best layout for the firm’s facilities
- implementing the production plan
- controlling manufacturing to maintain the highest quality.
What is the difference between a traditional manufacturing structure and a team-based structure?
In the traditional structure, each manager is given a specific area of authority. In a team-based structure, all workers are responsible for their output.
What factors affect the make, buy, or lease decision?
The costs of leasing or purchasing parts from vendors, versus producing them in-house, the availability of dependable outside suppliers, and the need for confidentiality affect this decision
What five steps are involved in controlling the production process?
The five steps are planning, routing, scheduling, dispatching, and follow-up.
What is the difference between a Gantt chart and a PERT chart?
Gantt charts, which track projected and actual work progress over time, are used for scheduling relatively simple projects.
PERT charts, which seek to minimize delays by coordinating all aspects of the production process, are used for more complex projects
What are some ways in which a company can monitor the quality level of its output?
Benchmarking, quality control, Six Sigma, and ISO standards are ways of monitoring quality.
List some of the benefits of acquiring ISO 9000-certification.
These standards define how a company should ensure that its products meet customers’ requirements. Business partners, customers, suppliers, and consumers may prefer to deal with or buy products from a certified organization.
A bakery customizes cakes for clients as well as accepts budgets within which they should be made. This is an example of a _____ production system.
Customer-Driven
Which items are combined to result in mass production?
Mechanization, Specialized Skills, Standardization
A luxury car manufacturer produces cars in large numbers but allows clients to pick their choice of materials for the upholstery and paneling and the exterior paint work. Which of the following best describes this process?
Flexible Production
Engineers at Ford Motor Company use computers to build new car models in the virtual world before they are ever built in automobile plants. These engineers are using _____.
Computer-aided Design
Yusted’s company uses a computer to control its production process. The computer transmits signals to machines for performing the appropriate steps in the correct order. This is an example of _____.
Computer Aided Manufacturing
Boca Bearing Company produces 30 basic types of ball bearings. Its manufacturing system uses computer-controlled machining centers, robots, and remote-controlled carts to deliver materials. In addition, the system can be modified quickly to produce the different ball bearings. The manufacturing system that is described is a _____ system.
Flexible manufacturing
Juan is a production manager. Which of the following tasks would Juan complete first?
Planning the production process
Sakura is a production manager and has decided that grouping machinery and equipment according to their functions works best at her company. What layout would be her company be using?
Process
