Ch 15 - Scheduling

Question 1

flow operations

Answer 1

processes designed to handle high-volume, standard products

Question 2

routing

Answer 2

provides information about the operations to be performed, their sequence, the work centers, & the time standards

Question 3

Gantt chart

Answer 3

planning and control chart designed to graphically show workloads or to monitor job progress

Question 4

load chart

Answer 4

a chart that visually shows the workload relative to the capacity at a resource

Question 5

progress chart

Answer 5

a chart that visually shows the planned schedule compared to actual performance

Question 6

infinite loading

Answer 6

scheduling that calculates the capacity needed at work centers in the time period needed without regard to the capacity available to do the work

Question 7

finite loading

Answer 7

scheduling that loads work centers up to a predetermined amount of capacity

Question 8

forward scheduling

Answer 8

schedule that determines the earliest possible completion date for a job

Question 9

due date

Answer 9

time when the job is supposed to be finished

Question 10

backward scheduling

Answer 10

Starts with the due date for an order and works backward to determine the start date for each activity

Question 11

slack

Answer 11

the amount of time a job can be delayed and still be finished by its due date

Question 12

input/output control

Answer 12

a technique for monitoring the flow of jobs between work centers

Question 13

operation sequencing

Answer 13

a short-term Plan of actual jobs to be run in each work center based on available capacity & priorities

Question 14

queue

Answer 14

waiting line

Question 15

priority rule

Answer 15

determines the priority of jobs at a work center

Question 16

local priority rule

Answer 16

makes a priority decision based on jobs currently at that work center

Question 17

global priority rule

Answer 17

makes a priority decision based on information that includes the remaining work centers a job must pass through

Question 18

makespan

Answer 18

the amount of time it takes to finish a batch of jobs

Question 19

job flow time

Answer 19

measurement of the time a job spends in the shop before it is finished

Question 20

average number of jobs in the system

Answer 20

measures work-in-process inventory

Question 21

job lateness

Answer 21

measures whether the job is done ahead of, on, or behind schedule

Question 22

job tardiness

Answer 22

measures how long after the due date the job is completed

Question 23

Johnson’s rule

Answer 23

a technique for minimizing makespen in a two-stage, unidirectional process

Question 24

optimized production technology (OPT)

Answer 24

a technique used to schedule bottleneck systems

Question 25

nonbottleneck

Answer 25

a work center with more capacity than demand

Question 27

throughput

Answer 27

the quantity of finished goods that can be sold

Question 28

transfer batch

Answer 28

the quantity of items moved at the same time from one resource to the next

Question 29

process batch

Answer 29

the quantity produced at a resource before the resource is switched over to produce another product

Question 30

theory of constraints (TOC)

Answer 30

a management philosophy that extends the concepts of OPT

Question 31

internal resource constraint

Answer 31

a regular bottleneck

Question 32

market constraint

Answer 32

the condition that results when market demand is less than production capacity

Question 33

policy constraint