Ops MGMT

Which of the following is not a mark of a good plant layout:

A firm uses exponential smoothing to forecast demand. In period 10 the forecast was 90 and the actual was 100. If à is equal to .10, then what is the forecast for period 11?

Which of the following is also referred to as a process layout?

Which of the following types of processes will be used to produce gasoline and petroleum products?

CAD increases flexibility through (choose the best answer):

When balancing an assembly line, it is sometimes very hard in:

Compute the required cycle time for a process that operates 8 hours daily with a required output of 300 units per day.

A forecasting model yields the following forecasts as compared to the actual.
Forecasting: 10 10 20 30 40 50 60
Actual: 7 11 23 35 42 56 66
Which one of the following is the MAD for this forecasting model?

FMS attempts to (choose the best answer):

The Manufacturing leadtime consists of which of the following?

The inputs to the layout decision are:
I. specification of objectives of the system in terms of inputs.
II. estimation of product or service demand on the system.
III. processing requirements.
IV. space availability within the facility itself.

Compute the required cycle time for a company which operates two identical production lines for 7.5 hours a day with a demand of 16,225 items per week (5 workday/week.)

Which of the following types of processes will be used to produce refrigerators?

The three pieces of data needed to forecast when using the exponential smoothing method are:

Which of the following types of processes will be used to produce electronic components?

Which of the following types of processes will be used to produce custom clothing?

If the importance of random data diminishes as the past becomes more distant, the method to use for forecasting should be:

Changing an alpha value in single exponential smoothing from .2 to .5 would make:

Which of the following is/are a method which is used in location analysis.

CIM is:
I. a method used to increase flexibility.
II. a method which automates and integrates design, planning, control, and manufacturing itself.
III. an automated version of the generic manufacturing process.
IV. synonymous with JIT.

The M in FMS stands for which of the following?

Decisions concerning the nature of the processing system, the equipment to be used, and the routing of the product refer to the concept of:

An operation routing sheet does which of the following?

A company is using single exponential smoothing. Last month they predicted a sale of 1,000 cases of a certain chemical. The à value they have been using is .1. Because they sold 800 cases, they are predicting a sale this month of:

Which of the following is a definition of productivity?

A flow line layout is often referred to as a: