Pocket Prep Quiz Material Flashcards
What is the purpose of functional specification?
Specify product or services form, fit, and function.
What is a bill-of-material?
Used to specify the components needed to make the product.
What is the purpose of the routing file in production activity control (PAC)?
Specifies the manufacturing operations required, sequencing of work centers and lead times.
What ensures all major customer requirements are identified and met through the product design process?
Quality Function Deployment (QFD)
What is the most common unit of capacity when product mix in a factory is high?
Time
The rate at which the system generates product is known as what?
Throughput
What term is used to evaluate how much warehouse space is being used in three dimensions?
Cube utilization
What type of storage improves cube utilization?
Random-location storage
By what two ways is equipment performance evaluated?
Utilizations and downtime.
What is the amount of acceptable material available after the completion of a process called?
Yield.
What is the proven output capacity of a process called?
Demonstrated capacity.
What is the purpose of a distribution warehouse?
Receive goods in large-volume uniform lots, store briefly, and then break down into smaller orders required by the customer.
What production planning method is known to match production to the level of demand, foregoing the need for inventory?
Chase production method.
What is the cost of the chase production method?
High production variability
Which production method is described as maintaining a stable production rate while varying inventory levels to meet demand?
Level production method
What is used to help meet demand with the level production method?
Level schedule
What is a level schedule?
Tool used in the level production method that maps out the detailed tasks needed to coordinate day-to-day work.
What leveling strategy is known to set production at a minimum level of annual demand and then subcontract out all excess demand?
Subcontracting strategy
What is a listing of every parent item that calls for a given component, and the respective quantity required, from a bill of material file called?
Where-used list
What is known as the ability to identify the sources of an item’s gross requirements and allocations?
Pegging
How do you calculate the Available Time (AT)?
Equipment x Hours in Time Bucket
How do you calculate utilization?
Hours Actually Worked / Available Time
What does quick changeover mean?
Machines are more productive and require less downtime for switching between products.
What does quick changeover mean?
Machines are more productive and require less downtime for switching between products.
What is known as demand that is directly related to or derived from the bill-of-material structure for other items or end items?
Dependent demand
What replenishment system is described when the demand on a work center is caused by the next work center and a product is not made unless signaled by the next work center?
A) ERP system
B) Push system
C) Flow Manufacturing
D) Pull system
D) Pull
What form of scheduling is utilized when production is scheduled from the date the customer order is received?
A) Master scheduling
B) Forward scheduling
C) Detailed scheduling
D) Backward scheduling
B) Forward scheduling
What type of scheduling beings with scheduling the last routing operation first and scheduling its completion on the due date?
Backward scheduling
What type of scheduling is known as the link between the production plan and what the manufacturing department will actually need to build?
Master scheduling
Production planning is generally a direct input into which of the following?
A) Material requirements planning
B) Master production scheduling
C) Rough cut capacity planning
D) Capacity Requirements planningProduction planning is generally a direct input into which of the following?
B) Master production scheduling
What is known as agreed-upon management plans for manufacturing, shipping, and inventory/backlog?
Production plans
What does a master scheduler need in order to develop a detailed master production schedule?
Production plans
What supports the master production schedule by verifying the availability of resources?
Rough cut capacity planning
What is used to plan the organization’s flow of material from the master production schedule?
Material requirements planning
What supports the material requirements plan by ensuring the required labor and machine resources are available?
Capacity requirements planning
What type of planning involves speculation related to an event that may or may not happen such as price increase, labor strike, etc.?
Hedge inventory planning?
What manufacturing environment assembles multiple end items from standard components?
A) Engineer to order (ETO)
B) Assemble to order (ATO)
C) Make to order (MTO)
D) Make to stock (MTS)
B) Assemble to order (ATO)
What is type of ‘to-order’ is known as creating many end items from components that can be manufactured and stocked in anticipation of customer orders?
Assemble-to-order (ATO)
What type of ‘to-order’ is defined as making and selling products from a finished good inventory?
Make-to-stock (MTS)
What type of ‘to-order’ is defined as making products based on customer’s specifications?
Engineer-to-Order (ETO)
What type of ‘to-order’ is defined as waiting to make products until they are ordered?
Make-to-Order (MTO)
What is the ‘average inventory’ formula?
Annual cost of goods sold / Inventory turns
What is known as the time it usually takes to produce an item?
Manufacturing lead time
What five types of time does manufacturing lead time include?
Queue time
Setup time
Run time
Wait Time
Move Time
What is known as a by-product of a process that cannot be reworked or reused?
Scrap
How is the seasonal index calculated?
Period average demand / Average demand for all periods
What is concerned with very detailed scheduling for individual orders at each work center in order to calculate work center loads?
Capacity Requirements Planning (CRP)
What is known as freezing a planned order against changes in quantity and time?
Firm Planned Order
When would you use a firm planned order?
When material shortages or capacity problems arise.
What contains the long-term debt, net cash available, and inventory on hand?
Balance sheet
This is found on an income statement and is subtracted form the revenue to obtain a gross profit.
Cost of goods sold
Releasing orders to the shop floor in priority sequence is best known as:
A) Sequencing
B) Operating
C) Controlling
D) Dispatching
D) Dispatching
What is known as a list of financial and operational measurements used to evaluate organizational or supply chain performance?
Balanced Scorecard
On the balanced scorecard, which perspective shows how the firm looks to shareholders?
Financial
On the balanced scorecard, which perspective shows how the customer sees the firm?
Customer
On the balanced scorecard, which perspective shows how well the operational processes are managed?
Business
On the balanced scorecard, which perspective shows how the firm learns and grows through improvement and value creation?
Innovation and learning
The type of demand that occurs when companies forecast end items and service parts. This demand is also unrelated to the demand for other items.
Independent
This type of demand is related to the demand of a product.
Dependent
How do you calculate the rated capacity?
Available hours * utilization rate * efficiency rating
What is known as the parameters set by the customer to define if the product is in/out of customer tolerances?
Specification Limits
