MRP (Material Requirements Plan)

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1.Which of the following is considered a major process flow structure?

•           Lead Time

•           Fabrication

•           Lean Manufacturing

 

•      Project

 

2.ISO audits result in certifications that are done by first, second, or third parties. Which of the following result in the best certification of a firm?

•           Certification is sought by any firm assuming they pay annual dues.

•           2nd Party – where a customer audits its supplier

•           3rd Party – where a qualified national or international standards/certifying agency serves as an auditor

•           1st Party – where a firm audits itself against ISO standards

3.Which of the following is ISO 14000 primarily concerned with?

•           Quality management

•           Time management

•           Continuous improvement management

•           Environmental management

4. Which is the one correct value stream principle?

•           Look for efficiencies in the factory, office, physical, procedural, and technical operations.

•           Eliminate waste that stops, slows down, or diverts the value stream.

•           Concentrate on speeding up value-adding operations rather than removing waste.

•           Keep the value stream moving at minimum velocity.

5. What is the starting point in developing a capacity plan for a health care operation?

•           Determining the effective capacity over time

•           Estimating design capacity

•           Forecasting patient demand for a reasonable length of time

•           Discovery of the bottleneck operation

6. Which of the following is considered an organizational blueprint, which prescribes the quantity and time frame for when each end product will be assembled?

•           MRP (Material Requirements Plan)

•           ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning)

•           MPS (Master Production Schedule)

•           WBS (Work Breakdown Structure)

7.Which of the following is an element that addresses elimination of waste under lean production?

•           Kanban production control system

•           Production ahead of demand

•           Minimized run times

•           Group plant loading technology

8. In most cases, demand for products or services can be broken into several components. Which of the following is considered a component of demand?

•           Level elements

•           Future elements

•           Past elements

•           Cyclical elements

9. Design for manufacturing and assembly delivers product improvements by emphasizing which of the following:

•           Reducing product quality during the assembly process

•           Designing products so they can be manufactured by a virtual factory

•           Reducing equipment in the production process

•           Simplification of the product by reducing the number of separate parts

10. Which of the following is one of the principles of reengineering?

•           Quality at the source

•           Do not select suppliers on the basis of price alone.

•           Have those who use the output of a process perform the process.

•           Leverage high cost employees with lower cost employees.

11. Which of the following is a characteristic that can be used to guide the design of service systems?

•           Services are all similar.

•           Services businesses are inherently entrepreneurial.

•           Quality work means quality service.

•           Services cannot be inventoried.