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Questions 4

Statistical process control is a technique primarily used to:

Options:

A.

implement mistake-proofing techniques.

B.

identify special-cause variation.

C.

reduce preventive maintenance.

D.

reduce the number of inspection steps.

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Questions 5

To decrease time to market for discrete products, it is most effective to improve which of the following phases?

Options:

A.

Product definition

B.

Product design

C.

Production

D.

Distribution

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Questions 6

When a company moves from sampling inspection to internal process control, which of the following actions should be taken prior to evaluating supplier performance?

Options:

A.

Plan and analyze results.

B.

Conduct a supplier kaizen.

C.

Establish quality criteria.

D.

Establish target inventory levels.

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Questions 7

Which of the following consequences is a result of inaccurate inventory data?

Options:

A.

The carrying cost rate will decrease.

B.

Total assets will be affected.

C.

Capacity planning will be affected.

D.

Cash flow will increase.

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Questions 8

Operation-to-operation quantity reporting is most important to which of the following production environments?

Options:

A.

Job-lot production

B.

Process production

C.

Repetitive manufacturing

D.

Continuous manufacturing

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Questions 9

Which of the following actions helps product design and development pursue a strategy of first-to-market?

Options:

A.

Coordinating with product engineering

B.

Developing warranty specifications

C.

Finding the lowest-cost suppliers

D.

Flow-charting current processes

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Questions 10

If an operation on a routing is performed out of sequence and the change in sequence is not reported to the formal system, which of the following situations will occur?

Options:

A.

An alternate routing will be created.

B.

The capacity requirements planning data will be inflated.

C.

The order will appear on a dispatch list in the wrong work center.

D.

The error will be corrected by cost accounting.

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Questions 11

Throughput for a family of parts can be increased by use of which of the following approaches?

Options:

A.

Cell layout

B.

Functional layout

C.

High utilization

D.

Batch processing

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Questions 12

Changes in the order quantity result from changes in:

Options:

A.

carrying and setup costs.

B.

setup costs and forecast error.

C.

transportation costs and forecast error.

D.

transportation costs and variation in lead time.

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Questions 13

Which of the following concepts is a reason to create a visual factory?

Options:

A.

They are more successful because visual systems are more robust.

B.

They are inexpensive to implement.

C.

They are more successful because they display well for customer visits.

D.

They are successful because they are self-explaining and self-improving.

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Questions 14

The actual output of a work center for a given time period can be determined by evaluating the:

Options:

A.

number of standard hours in the queue.

B.

number of standard hours per units produced.

C.

number of machine hours.

D.

amount of rated capacity less rework.

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Questions 15

When an order is split into two orders, the immediate effect on a job shop work center is to increase which of the following elements?

Options:

A.

Setup time

B.

Work-in-process quantity

C.

Run time

D.

Lot size

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Questions 16

A factory is at capacity in a period of stable demand. Which of the following actions would be best to maintain the competitive advantage when product variety is expected to increase?

Options:

A.

Establish additional factories.

B.

Increase capacity.

C.

Reduce takt time.

D.

Apply single-minute exchange of die (SMED)

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Questions 17

Which of the following is the primary reason to reduce setup time?

Options:

A.

Reduced labor cost

B.

Reduced machine downtime

C.

Increased time to make repairs

D.

Increased flexibility

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Questions 18

In process improvement, which of the following procedures should be done first?

Options:

A.

Assess employee productivity.

B.

Analyze process variances.

C.

Identify process steps.

D.

Establish priorities for process change.

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Questions 19

Proper workplace organization calls for which of the following actions?

Options:

A.

Increasing supervisor oversight

B.

Returning frequently used items to a nearby, fixed location

C.

Increasing the use of kanbans

D.

Placing all tools in a centrally located tool crib

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Questions 20

The utilization of a downstream nonbottleneck resource is determined by:

Options:

A.

a bottleneck resource.

B.

theoretical capacity.

C.

available capacity.

D.

standard hours available.

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Questions 21

Which of the following statements about the MRP due date for a shop order is true?

Options:

A.

It is the same as operation priority.

B.

It is used in deriving operation priority.

C.

It is established at order release time and frozen until order completion.

D.

It is equal to the due date plus 5 "M" days.

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Questions 22

In an attempt to reduce costs associated with information system transactions, which of the following approaches should be considered?

Options:

A.

Discontinue backflushing components

B.

Reducing levels in the bill of material

C.

Remove the component supermarket

D.

Reducing lot sizes of manufactured products

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Questions 23

Which of the following steps should be first in determining operation start dates for capacity planning?

Options:

A.

Input/output control

B.

Forward or backward scheduling

C.

Finite or infinite loading

D.

Order preparation and release

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Questions 24

Capability index is useful to predict which of the following factors?

Options:

A.

Cell output

B.

Material and resource priority

C.

Overall equipment effectiveness

D.

Process variability

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Questions 25

A company has successfully completed improvement projects in several business units. Which of the following breakthroughs would be achieved when the improvements are embedded into the entire organization?

Options:

A.

Continuous improvement

B.

Culture change

C.

Market share growth

D.

Employee engagement

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Questions 26

When designing a cell, a company should consider which of the following factors when determining the quantity needed for installation of a specific machine type?

Options:

A.

Cycle time for the operation relative to other operations in the cell

B.

Total load to be processed through the facility

C.

The part-coding classification system used

D.

Standard cost of the assembly

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Questions 27

If actual demand is consistently slightly lower than planned demand, which of the following outcomes most likely will occur when a firm produces to stock using a functional layout?

Options:

A.

Production efficiency will decrease.

B.

Customer service will decrease.

C.

Backlog will increase.

D.

Quality levels will increase.

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Questions 28

After some investigation, a packaging company determined that all of its defective containers were being delivered by one of their third-party trucking companies. What quality tool would have been used to find this information?

Options:

A.

Check sheet

B.

Pareto diagram

C.

Plan-do-check-action

D.

Process flow diagram

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Questions 29

A plant that implements a total preventive maintenance program would be likely to:

Options:

A.

acquire the latest in computer-controlled production equipment.

B.

use statistical process control to identify equipment problems.

C.

involve production workers directly in maintaining and managing production equipment.

D.

identify and remove the causes of abnormal instrumentation and tooling variation.

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Questions 30

Based on the theory of constraints (TOC) scheduling approach, smaller lots created as a result of splitting order quantities are considered to be:

Options:

A.

period order quantities.

B.

bottleneck batches.

C.

transfer batches.

D.

campaign orders.

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Questions 31

Small-group improvement activities are most effective when the:

Options:

A.

group is guided by a professional facilitator.

B.

group focuses on solvable problems.

C.

machine operators are required to participate.

D.

company's industrial engineers participate.

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Exam Code: CPIM-ECO
Exam Name: Execution and Control of Operations
Last Update: Nov 20, 2024
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