The document contains 6 multiple choice questions about operations management concepts including process metrics, make-to-stock processes, process flow structures, and examples of specific process flows used for different products like automobiles, gasoline, and steel. The questions cover topics such as the most common process metric, characteristics of make-to-stock processes, what blocking is in a process flow, which is not a major process flow structure, the best process flow for automobiles, and the type of process flow used for products like gasoline and steel.
The document contains 6 multiple choice questions about operations management concepts including process metrics, make-to-stock processes, process flow structures, and examples of specific process flows used for different products like automobiles, gasoline, and steel. The questions cover topics such as the most common process metric, characteristics of make-to-stock processes, what blocking is in a process flow, which is not a major process flow structure, the best process flow for automobiles, and the type of process flow used for products like gasoline and steel.
The document contains 6 multiple choice questions about operations management concepts including process metrics, make-to-stock processes, process flow structures, and examples of specific process flows used for different products like automobiles, gasoline, and steel. The questions cover topics such as the most common process metric, characteristics of make-to-stock processes, what blocking is in a process flow, which is not a major process flow structure, the best process flow for automobiles, and the type of process flow used for products like gasoline and steel.
1) According to your text, the most common process metric is:
A. Productivity B. Utilization C. Throughput time D.
Efficiency
2) Which of the following is true about make-to-stock processes?
A. Make-to-stock processes can be controlled based on the actual or anticipated amount of finished goods B. Make-to-stock process is used when demand is seasonal and the firm does not have enough C. Services by their very nature often use make-to-stock processes. D. A and B
3) ________ is when the activities in the stage must stop
because there is no place to deposit the item just completed. A. Buffering B. Starving C. None of these answers D. Blocking
4) According to Hayes and Wheelwright, which of the following is
not a major process flow structure? A. Job Shop B. Assembly Line C. Project D. Batch
5) The best process flow structure to use for making automobiles
is? A. Job Shop B. Group technology cell C. Assembly line D. Batch Shop
6) The type of processing structure that is used to produce
gasoline, chemicals, and steel is: A. Job Shop B. Assembly Line C. Continuous Flow D. Batch