MULTIPLE CHOICES - MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS

1. The advantages of organizational planing such as:

A. Determining the organizational requirements, offering the relevant training courses for internal
promotion (before external consideration).
B. Helping the managers spend their time for conflict solving,
C. Helping the factory waiting for changing somethings,
D. All the above are incorrect.

2. The division of workelements in manufacturing aims to:

A. Calculate workelement cost accurately.
B. Be specialization, or attachment application to improve productivity.
C. Be interchanged employees to others (if necessary).
D. Be more simplier job for lines supervisors.
E. All the above are correct.

3. The characteristics of jobbing system such as:

A. Make to customers’ orders.
B. High operational cost.
C. Long processing/cycle time.
D. Multi functions machines/tools.
E. All the above.

4. In larger number of employees factories (such as garment factories,...), the subordinator principle is
often violated (increasing number of subordinators), because:
A. Lines supervisor can cover all troubles in his/her lines.
B. Reducing the managerial levels.
C. The characteristics of workelements are simple and easy to control.
D. The workers always report their performance, and supervisor is easily to control.
E. The total final volume is larger.

5. Select the INCORRECT sentence "the characteristics of modern production”:

A. The quality focus because quality is the core competitive factor,
B. The overall cost focus because it is very important to develop,
C. The softwares and computer application because the factory requires quickly and correctly
information/data processing,
D. The high level managers focus because it makes sure that the factory will be successful,
E. I can not find out the incorrect sentence.

6. The factory organizational structure presents:

A. Informal relationships for all positions,
B. Formal and informal authorities,
C. Factory positions, relationships of responsibilities and authorities among positions,
D. All the above (a, b and c).

7. In larger number of employees factories and lines supervisors can manage easily all workelements
of their workers. In this situation, the subordinator principle should:
A. Reduce to increase number of lines.
B. Increase to reduce managerial levels.
C. Enlarge because workelements are simply to manage and control.
D. Reduce less than 24 subordinators rule.
E. I think that subordinator principle does not make sense in factories.

8. Select the INCORRECT sentence below:

A. The specialization strategy for tasks will improve labour productivity and be fit for mass production
B. The simultaneous strategy among tasks will improve machines’ utilization
C. The increased flexibility strategy for tasks will improve machines’ utilization
D. The combined workelements strategy will help the manager who can finish their responsibility
easily
E. I can not find out the incorrect sentence.

9. Selecting the relevant number of subordinators, it is remarked:

A. With workerselements in assembly lines, number of subordinators can reduce
B. If the subordinators have professional skills and knowledge, they need more monitoring and the number
of subordinators can be increased.
C. The higher managerial levels is the less number of subordinators to report,
D. In maintenance and R&D departments will increase number of subordinators,

10. Select the INCORRECT sentence below:

A. Variety and quantity of products are the main factors to select and design production process,
B. The high volume of items is able to apply advanced methodologies and technologies for designing
production lines
C. The high volume of demand is difficult to invest the advanced equipments for production lines
D. The volume in production planning is based on forecasting demand
E. I can not find out the incorrect sentence.