BUS 430 WEEK 6 QUIZ 5
BUS 430
Week 6 Quiz 5
TRUE/FALSE
1. Changes in goods and services for a firm's customer
benefit package do not impact facility layouts.
2. Facility layout is not
only concerned with the arrangement of physical facilities, but also the
material handling capabilities within the facility.
3. In a product layout, a
breakdown of one piece of equipment will not cause the entire process to shut down.
4. Product layouts are less
flexible than process layouts.
5. Process layouts generally
require less investment in equipment than product layouts because the equipment
is less specialized.
6. Services such as legal and
medical specialties employ cellular-type layouts as do manufacturers.
7. Cellular layouts are
designed according to the functional characteristics of equipment much in the
same fashion as process layouts.
8. Product layouts offer
higher flexibility with low productivity and process layouts have limited
flexibility with high productivity.
9. Workers in cellular
layouts generally have greater responsibilities than those who work in product
or process layouts.
10. A fixed position layout is based
on the sequence of operations that is performed during the manufacturing of a
good or delivery of a service.
11. The predominant layout type used
in hospitals is the fixed-position layout.
12. The facility layout in a library
would most likely be a process layout.
13. In a product layout such as an
assembly line, a flow blocking delay occurs whenever one stage completes work
and no units from the previous stage are waiting processing.
14. Flow-blocking and lack-of-work
delays can be reduced by assigning an appropriate level of capacity at each
workstation.
15. An assembly line is a type of
product layout.
16. The objective of assembly line
balancing is to group tasks among workstations so that the amount of work
assigned to each workstation is highly variable, thus maximizing flexibility.
17. In a perfectly balanced assembly
line, no bottlenecks exist.
18. Cycle time in assembly line
balancing is the maximum amount of time it takes to process a part at some
workstation along the line.
19. Cycle time should be smaller
than the largest operation time.
20. Cycle time is related to the
output rate and the available time to produce output.
21. Because of precedence
relationships, assembly-line efficiencies will generally be very high.
22. Assembly line balancing problems
involving many distinct products (mixed-model line balancing) are generally
easier to solve than single-model balancing problems because there are more
alternatives available to assign tasks to workstations.
23. CRAFT is a process layout
technique that tries to improve on a current solution by exchanging two or
three departments at a time to determine if total materials handling costs have
been reduced.
24. ALDEP is a process layout
technique that focuses on materials handling costs as the primary solution.
25. A Gallup study showed that
workers who are allowed to personalize their workplaces were no more productive
than those who are not allowed.
26. Ergonomics is the science that
is concerned with determining specific job tasks and responsibilities.
27. Job enlargement approaches give
workers more variety of work, but not necessarily more responsibility.
28. Teams are a way of accomplishing
job enrichment.
29. Virtual teams are empowered work
teams that assume many traditional management responsibilities.
30. Self-managed teams perform
entire jobs, rather than specialized assembly-line work.
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MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. A line balancing solution has been developed for the
assembly line for fertilizer spreaders at Green Grass, Inc. The desired output
rate of 30 spreaders per hour will be achieved. The sum of times for all tasks
performed on the line is 1200 seconds for each spreader assembled. Which
of the following statements must be true?
2. An assembly line with 28
activities is to be balanced. The total amount of time required for all 28
activities is 39 minutes. The line will operate for 450 minutes per day. What
must the cycle time be to achieve an output rate of 400 units/day?
3. An assembly line with 28
operations is to be balanced. The total amount of time required for all 28
operations is 39 minutes. The longest operation takes 2.2 minutes and the
shortest takes 0.8 minutes. The line will operate for 450 minutes per day.
4. Which of the following is not a common reason for facility layout
studies?
5. All of the following are
common objectives of layout studies except
6. A ____ layout is an
arrangement based on the sequence of operations that are performed during the
manufacturing of a good or the delivery of a service.
7. A ____ layout consists of
a functional grouping of equipment or activities that do similar work.
8. A ____ layout is an
arrangement based on self-contained groups of equipment needed to produce a
particular set of goods or services.
9. The typical layout of
facilities in a hospital would be an example of a ____ layout.
10. The production of large goods
such as airplanes is best accomplished using a ____ layout.
11. Which is true for product
layout?
12. Which is not true regarding fixed-position layout?
13. Which one of the following fits best
with process layout?
14. All of the following are
limitations to process layout except
15. Which type of layout is best for
high volumes of demand with few if any setups/changeovers?
17. All of the following are true regarding
assembly lines except
18. Assembly line balancing
19. For a given cycle time in line
balancing, assembly-line efficiency can be increased by
20. Which of the following is not a common approach for designing process
layouts?
21. Considering ergonomics, which of
the following does not fit?
22. ____ is vertical expansion of
job duties to give the worker more responsibility.
23. A(n) ____ performs entire jobs
rather than specialized, assembly line work.
24. The determination of specific
job tasks and responsibilities is called ____.
25. ____ set their own goals and
inspect their own work, often hire their own replacements and prepare their own
budgets.
26. Which of the following is not a disadvantage of virtual teams?
SHORT ANSWER
1. Discuss four reasons for conducting a
facility-layout study.
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