Final

Question 1

Factors when locating a new factory within the United states

Answer 1

Labor cost
Skills
Material cost
Availability

Question 2

Factors when locating a new factory Outside the United states

Answer 2

Political risk 
currency risk 
Import/export restrictions 
Différent culture/ language/ religion 
Tax code/ legal system/ accounting system

Question 3

T/F Taking or giving a bribery in a foreign country can lead to penalty in the US

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Where did saturn choose to build plant

Answer 4

Tennessee

Question 5

Center of gravity Method for selecting a site

Answer 5

Take location and shipping volume into consideration to determine the site that minimizes shipping cost

Question 6

4 elements / requirements of Forecasting

Answer 6

Timely
Accurate
expressed in meaningful terms
in writing and simple to understand

Question 7

Forecasting factors that are influenced by managers

Answer 7

Design
quality
price
customer service

Question 8

Forecasting factors that are not influenced by managers

and imposible for forecasting

Answer 8

Completion 
business cycle 
product life cycle 
demographics 
government regulation

Question 9

Marketing forecast

Answer 9

generally a polling of opinion or a survey of sales people, marketing forecast looks forward and should be the best

Question 10

Positives of marketing forecast

Answer 10

Looks to the future

Marketers Know the Market

Question 11

Negatives of marketing forecast

Answer 11

Bias, forecaster can manipulate forecast

Question 12

Production Forecast

Answer 12

The past is being used to determine the future, past numbers determine the forecast for future sales, relies on mathematic models and trends

Question 13

Positives of production forecast

Answer 13

quick

Question 14

Negatives of production forecast

Answer 14

doesn’t account for business factors

Question 15

Facility Layout

Answer 15

The layout of production that is best fit for the product or service

Question 16

Process layout

Answer 16

for assembly lines that run smoothly and are continues, oil refineries

Question 17

Product Layout

Answer 17

Different products that required different layouts

Question 18

Cellular Layout

Answer 18

a self contained group of equipment and worked needed for producing a particular component in a family of parts (factory within a factory)

Question 19

Fixed position layout

Answer 19

Resources sent to a single location (building a house)

Question 20

System output

Answer 20

The number of goods produced within a certain amount of time, the machine with the slowest output determines the system output

Question 21

Line balancing

Answer 21

manipulating the number of workers and machine so there is no idle worked on the assembly line

Question 22

Sub assembly line

Answer 22

two lines that meet to create one product

Question 23

The Taylor way

Answer 23

Divide the task to its simplest elements and assign a person to each element

Question 24

The Juran way

Answer 24

work design by Juran to give the entire job to one person or a small group of people

Question 25

Positives of the Juran way

Answer 25

one absentee docent shut the line assistant managers no longer needed Flexibility to work from home Job meaningful

Question 26

Disadvantages to the Juran Way

Answer 26

Major investment in training and education

Question 27

cell manufacturing

Answer 27

U-shaped table

Question 28

Benefits of cell manufacturing

Answer 28

Holistic view A factory within a factory managers don't pay attention to the group

Question 29

Reinforcement through bonus system

Answer 29

1/3 of the Japanese payment, idea is "what more money,make more money"

Question 30

Responsibilities of work team

Answer 30

``` quality job assignment and rotation preventive maintenance statistical process control the blue collar contribution ```

Question 31

Blue collar contribution

Answer 31

Detect defects Create a paeto diagram fish diagram PDCA cycle

Question 32

PDCA meaning

Answer 32

plan a course of action Do a test Check Results Act on results

Question 33

Kazan

Answer 33

Never ending improvement

Question 34

Function of managers

Answer 34

deal with problems lead work team deal with outside environment reduce common cause variation

Question 35

Product Design

Answer 35

Old was took 7 Years from concept to shelf

Question 36

Concurrent or simultaneous engineering

Answer 36

Puts those involved into a single building on single floor and mix them up to get an understanding of the whole process and a holistic view

Question 37

Benefits of simultaneous engineering

Answer 37

7 to 3.5 years fewer parts easier to manufacture (left screw) Higher quality

Question 38

Aggregate planing

Answer 38

initial planning to match productive capacity with forecast demand

Question 39

two forms of aggregate planing

Answer 39

Match production with respected demand | Work normal time

Question 40

Transportation model

Answer 40

Tells you what to products should be produced at each plant to minimize shipping cost

Question 41

Master schedule

Answer 41

schedule for each product and quantity

Question 42

Safety stock

Answer 42

Inventory to absorb fluctuations in demand and delivery time (demand x typically late)

Question 43

Cycle stock

Answer 43

half of shipment

Question 44

inventory

Answer 44

safety stock + cycle stock

Question 45

Purpose of inventory

Answer 45

Service customers protect against supply shortage large discounts hedging stabilize employment decouple successive stages of production facilitates switching from one product to another

Question 46

Three types of inventory

Answer 46

Raw materials work in progress finished goods

Question 47

TPM- Total preventive Maintenance

Answer 47

not running at full capacity not waiting until part breaks to change it give workers sense of ownership

Question 48

components of setup cost

Answer 48

Loss of revenue cost of idle workers poor quality

Question 49

How to get setup cost to zero

Answer 49

machine cluster

Question 50

machine cluster

Answer 50

one man for multiple machines

Question 51

Kanban

Answer 51

System that tells you how many to produce

Question 52

Benneton

Answer 52

sell then make

Question 53

Anual inventory cost

Answer 53

1/3 of inventory

Question 54

Cost of carrying

Answer 54

obsolescence spoilage pilferage

Question 55

FMS flexible manufacturing system

Answer 55

one worker can do multiple tasks

Question 56

Bullwhip effect

Answer 56

demand variability increases as the supply chain gets further from the customer

Question 57

Iso International organization standards

Answer 57

standardization to facilitate international exchange of goods

Question 58

Taguchi

Answer 58

Loss function : cost benefit analysis | Robust design

Question 59

Deming on inspection

Answer 59

too late too costly to ineffectual