Operations Management
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Author: CACHON, Gérard, Terwiesch, Christian
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Suppose a resource has setup times and a setup time must be incurred each time theresource switches production to a different product. Requiring the resource to make anew product (that requires its own setup) is likely to have what effect on the process?a. Inventory for existing products remains the same, but the process must now carryinventory of the new product.b. Inventory of all products is likely to increase.c. Inventory of existing products decreases even though the process must now carryinventory of the new product.d. Inventory of products with short setup times will decrease, while inventory of products with long setup times will increase.
1. In a worker paced assembly line, consider a situation where the daily requirement has suddenly increased. Which of the following statements will be true?
a) The required cycle time will also increase proportionally
b) The minimum number of workstations required will come down
c) The idle times at many workstations will increase
d) It will be possible to handle the new requirement by increasing the available time.
2. Which of the following statements will hold good in the case of a system with uncertainty in demand for service and in service times?
a) When the utilization of resources fall it is an indication of greater efficiency of the service
b) It is a good practice to plan for resource utilization levels more than 85%
c) Cost of waiting to get serviced is directly proportional to the cost of providing the service
d) None of the above
3. Which of the following pertains to an efficient supply chain?
a) It deals with innovative products
b) The product life cycle will be…
Better eliminate waste of over processing is a direct benefit related to a pull system.
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Operations Management
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