Pocket Prep Quiz Material

Question 1

What is the purpose of functional specification?

Answer 1

Specify product or services form, fit, and function.

Question 2

What is a bill-of-material?

Answer 2

Used to specify the components needed to make the product.

Question 3

What is the purpose of the routing file in production activity control (PAC)?

Answer 3

Specifies the manufacturing operations required, sequencing of work centers and lead times.

Question 4

What ensures all major customer requirements are identified and met through the product design process?

Answer 4

Quality Function Deployment (QFD)

Question 5

What is the most common unit of capacity when product mix in a factory is high?

Answer 5

Time

Question 6

The rate at which the system generates product is known as what?

Answer 6

Throughput

Question 7

What term is used to evaluate how much warehouse space is being used in three dimensions?

Answer 7

Cube utilization

Question 8

What type of storage improves cube utilization?

Answer 8

Random-location storage

Question 9

By what two ways is equipment performance evaluated?

Answer 9

Utilizations and downtime.

Question 10

What is the amount of acceptable material available after the completion of a process called?

Answer 10

Yield.

Question 11

What is the proven output capacity of a process called?

Answer 11

Demonstrated capacity.

Question 12

What is the purpose of a distribution warehouse?

Answer 12

Receive goods in large-volume uniform lots, store briefly, and then break down into smaller orders required by the customer.

Question 13

What production planning method is known to match production to the level of demand, foregoing the need for inventory?

Answer 13

Chase production method.

Question 14

What is the cost of the chase production method?

Answer 14

High production variability

Question 15

Which production method is described as maintaining a stable production rate while varying inventory levels to meet demand?

Answer 15

Level production method

Question 16

What is used to help meet demand with the level production method?

Answer 16

Level schedule

Question 17

What is a level schedule?

Answer 17

Tool used in the level production method that maps out the detailed tasks needed to coordinate day-to-day work.

Question 18

What leveling strategy is known to set production at a minimum level of annual demand and then subcontract out all excess demand?

Answer 18

Subcontracting strategy

Question 19

What is a listing of every parent item that calls for a given component, and the respective quantity required, from a bill of material file called?

Answer 19

Where-used list

Question 20

What is known as the ability to identify the sources of an item’s gross requirements and allocations?

Answer 20

Pegging

Question 21

How do you calculate the Available Time (AT)?

Answer 21

Equipment x Hours in Time Bucket

Question 22

How do you calculate utilization?

Answer 22

Hours Actually Worked / Available Time

Question 23

What does quick changeover mean?

Answer 23

Machines are more productive and require less downtime for switching between products.

Question 24

What does quick changeover mean?

Answer 24

Machines are more productive and require less downtime for switching between products.

Question 25

What is known as demand that is directly related to or derived from the bill-of-material structure for other items or end items?

Answer 25

Dependent demand

Question 26

What replenishment system is described when the demand on a work center is caused by the next work center and a product is not made unless signaled by the next work center? A) ERP system B) Push system C) Flow Manufacturing D) Pull system

Answer 26

D) Pull

Question 27

What form of scheduling is utilized when production is scheduled from the date the customer order is received? A) Master scheduling B) Forward scheduling C) Detailed scheduling D) Backward scheduling

Answer 27

B) Forward scheduling

Question 28

What type of scheduling beings with scheduling the last routing operation first and scheduling its completion on the due date?

Answer 28

Backward scheduling

Question 29

What type of scheduling is known as the link between the production plan and what the manufacturing department will actually need to build?

Answer 29

Master scheduling

Question 30

Production planning is generally a direct input into which of the following? A) Material requirements planning B) Master production scheduling C) Rough cut capacity planning D) Capacity Requirements planningProduction planning is generally a direct input into which of the following?

Answer 30

B) Master production scheduling

Question 31

What is known as agreed-upon management plans for manufacturing, shipping, and inventory/backlog?

Answer 31

Production plans

Question 32

What does a master scheduler need in order to develop a detailed master production schedule?

Answer 32

Production plans

Question 33

What supports the master production schedule by verifying the availability of resources?

Answer 33

Rough cut capacity planning

Question 34

What is used to plan the organization's flow of material from the master production schedule?

Answer 34

Material requirements planning

Question 35

What supports the material requirements plan by ensuring the required labor and machine resources are available?

Answer 35

Capacity requirements planning

Question 36

What type of planning involves speculation related to an event that may or may not happen such as price increase, labor strike, etc.?

Answer 36

Hedge inventory planning?

Question 37

What manufacturing environment assembles multiple end items from standard components? A) Engineer to order (ETO) B) Assemble to order (ATO) C) Make to order (MTO) D) Make to stock (MTS)

Answer 37

B) Assemble to order (ATO)

Question 38

What is type of 'to-order' is known as creating many end items from components that can be manufactured and stocked in anticipation of customer orders?

Answer 38

Assemble-to-order (ATO)

Question 39

What type of 'to-order' is defined as making and selling products from a finished good inventory?

Answer 39

Make-to-stock (MTS)

Question 40

What type of 'to-order' is defined as making products based on customer's specifications?

Answer 40

Engineer-to-Order (ETO)

Question 41

What type of 'to-order' is defined as waiting to make products until they are ordered?

Answer 41

Make-to-Order (MTO)

Question 42

What is the 'average inventory' formula?

Answer 42

Annual cost of goods sold / Inventory turns

Question 43

What is known as the time it usually takes to produce an item?

Answer 43

Manufacturing lead time

Question 44

What five types of time does manufacturing lead time include?

Answer 44

Queue time Setup time Run time Wait Time Move Time

Question 45

What is known as a by-product of a process that cannot be reworked or reused?

Answer 45

Scrap

Question 46

How is the seasonal index calculated?

Answer 46

Period average demand / Average demand for all periods

Question 47

What is concerned with very detailed scheduling for individual orders at each work center in order to calculate work center loads?

Answer 47

Capacity Requirements Planning (CRP)

Question 48

What is known as freezing a planned order against changes in quantity and time?

Answer 48

Firm Planned Order

Question 49

When would you use a firm planned order?

Answer 49

When material shortages or capacity problems arise.

Question 50

What contains the long-term debt, net cash available, and inventory on hand?

Answer 50

Balance sheet

Question 51

This is found on an income statement and is subtracted form the revenue to obtain a gross profit.

Answer 51

Cost of goods sold

Question 52

Releasing orders to the shop floor in priority sequence is best known as: A) Sequencing B) Operating C) Controlling D) Dispatching

Answer 52

D) Dispatching

Question 53

What is known as a list of financial and operational measurements used to evaluate organizational or supply chain performance?

Answer 53

Balanced Scorecard

Question 54

On the balanced scorecard, which perspective shows how the firm looks to shareholders?

Answer 54

Financial

Question 55

On the balanced scorecard, which perspective shows how the customer sees the firm?

Answer 55

Customer

Question 56

On the balanced scorecard, which perspective shows how well the operational processes are managed?

Answer 56

Business

Question 57

On the balanced scorecard, which perspective shows how the firm learns and grows through improvement and value creation?

Answer 57

Innovation and learning

Question 58

The type of demand that occurs when companies forecast end items and service parts. This demand is also unrelated to the demand for other items.

Answer 58

Independent

Question 59

This type of demand is related to the demand of a product.

Answer 59

Dependent

Question 60

How do you calculate the rated capacity?

Answer 60

Available hours * utilization rate * efficiency rating

Question 61

What is known as the parameters set by the customer to define if the product is in/out of customer tolerances?

Answer 61

Specification Limits