Chapter 8: Multiple Choice Flashcards
Once processes are selected and designed, organizations must design the infrastructure to implement these processes. This is accomplished by means of __________ and _______.
facility layout, work design
Which of the following is not one of the four major patterns commonly used in configuring facilities?
Flexible
Which of the following is not a common reason for a facility layout study?
a new supplier is used
A facility arrangement based on the sequence of operations that is performed during the manufacturing of a good or delivery of a service is a
Product layout
Which of the following is not true about a product layout?
more flexibility
A facility arrangement that consists of a functional grouping of equipment or activities that do similar work is a
Process layout
Which of the following is not true about a process layout?
lower material handling costs
A facility arrangement that is made up of self-contained groups of equipment needed for producing a particular set of goods or services is a
cellular layout
Which of the following is not true about a cellular layout?
low equipment utilization
The procedure of classifying parts and services into families to be processed in work cells is called
group technology
Which of the following is not true about a fixed-position layout?
high demand volume
Service organizations that provide highly standardized services tend to use
products layout
A product layout dedicated to combining the components of a good or service that has been created previously is
an assembly line
A technique to group tasks among workstations so that each workstation has – in the ideal case – the same amount of work is called
Assembly line balancing
When minimizing the number of workstations is the goal of assembly line balancing, we need all of the following information except
the desired assembly line efficiency
