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[MCQ’s]Production Planning and Control

CONCEPT OF PPC

 CONCEPT OF PPC

1. Which of the following is not a part of Five M’s?

a.Material
b.Machine
c.Motion
d.Method
Answer: c

2. The correct sequence of operations in production planning and control is

a.Routing-Scheduling-Dispatching-Follow up
b.Scheduling-Routing- Dispatching-Follow up
c.Dispatching-Routing-Scheduling- Follow up
d.Routing-Scheduling-Follow up-Dispatching
Answer: a

3. Which of the following is true for ‘Routing’?

a.It is flow of work in the plant
b.Route sheets include list of machine tools that are to be followed
c.It depends upon material handling facilities
d.All of the above
Answer: d

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4. Loading may be defined as

a.Sending the raw material to the machine
b.Sending the finished material to the store
c.Assign the work to the facilities
d.Uploading a software in machine control panel
Answer: c

5. Dispatching authorizes the start of production operations by

Release of material and components from stores to first process
Release of material from process to process
Issue of drawings instruction sheets
Which of the following is (are) true?
a.Only i
b.Only ii
c.i & ii
d.i , ii & iii
Answer: d

6. The bill of material does not consists of

a.Part number
b.Specifications of part
c.Name of the part
d.Price of the part
Answer: d

7. Procurement cycle time is time consumed for

a.Receiving of raw material
b.Inspection of various raw materials
c.Inspection of purchased components parts
d.All of the above
Answer: d

8. The transit time consist of

a.Time taken by raw material from machine to machine
b.Time consumed in moving the work between various departments
c.Time taken by a worker to machine a component
d.None of the above
Answer: b

9. Master schedule is prepared for

a.Single product continuous production
b.Multi product batch production
c.Assembly product continuous production
d.Single product batch production
Answer: c

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10. Which of the following chart is drawn Machine vs time?

a.Man machine chart
b.The load chart
c.The progress chart
d.Curve chart
Answer: b

11. Gantt chart is mostly used for

a.Routing
b.Scheduling
c.Follow up
d.Inspection and quality control
Answer: b

12. Key to chart is provided in

a.Man machine chart
b.The load chart
c.The progress chart
d.Gantt chart
Answer: d

13. Centralized and decentralized are the types of

a.Routing
b.Dispatching
c.Scheduling
d.Follow up
Answer: b

14. ___ is the probability that a product will operate properly within an expected time frame.
A) serviceability
B) performance
C) reliability
D) durability
Answer: c

15. Which of the following describes a Process layout?

A) equipment is specialized and the workers are unskilled
B) equipment is general purpose and the workers are highly skilled
C) equipment is specialized and the workers are highly skilled
D) equipment is general purpose and the workers are unskilled
Answer: b

16. Material requirements planning (MRP) is useful for all of the following except
A) erratic orders
B) independent demand items
C) discrete demand items
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D) dependent demand items

Answer: b

17. Following tool displays major causes of poor quality on a graph.

A) Scatter diagram
B) Histogram
C) Fishbone diagram
D) Process flow chart
Answer: c

18. Following two techniques used to design process layouts

A) block diagramming and relationship diagramming
B) relationship diagramming and assembly line balancing
C) relationship diagramming and assembling line balancing
D) block diagramming and assembly line balancing
Answer: a

19. All of the following are inputs into the MRP process except
A) the planned order report
B) the item master file
C) the product structure file
D) the master production schedule
Answer: a

20. Following is not a primary purpose of statistical process control.

A) to determine when a process is not in control
B) to identify specification limits
C) to detect special cause variations
D) to establish control limits
Answer: b

21. Which of the following statements is most true?

A) product and process layout are equally efficient: neither are flexible
B) product and process layouts are equally flexible; neither are efficient
C) product layouts are efficient: process layouts are flexible
D) product layouts are flexible; process layouts are efficient
Answer: c

22. A phantom bill of material is used

A) when due dates have not been calculated
B) for sub-assemblies that are immediately consumed in the next stage of production
C) when the product is manufactured in major sub-assemblies
D) to group small, loose parts together
Answer: b

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23. ___ is the probability of rejecting a lot that has an acceptable quality level is referred to as the
A) acceptable quality level
B) lot tolerance percent defective
C) consumer’s risk
D) producer’s risk
Answer: d

FORECASTING

INVENTORY PLANNING

PPROCESS PLANNING AND LINE BALANCING

SCHEDULING AND SEQUENCING

MRP AND ERP

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