To decrease time to market for discrete products, it is most effective to improve which of the following phases?
When a company moves from sampling inspection to internal process control, which of the following actions should be taken prior to evaluating supplier performance?
Operation-to-operation quantity reporting is most important to which of the following production environments?
Which of the following actions helps product design and development pursue a strategy of first-to-market?
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?
Throughput for a family of parts can be increased by use of which of the following approaches?
The actual output of a work center for a given time period can be determined by evaluating the:
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?
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?
In process improvement, which of the following procedures should be done first?
Which of the following statements about the MRP due date for a shop order is true?
In an attempt to reduce costs associated with information system transactions, which of the following approaches should be considered?
Which of the following steps should be first in determining operation start dates for capacity planning?
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?
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?
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?
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?
A plant that implements a total preventive maintenance program would be likely to:
Based on the theory of constraints (TOC) scheduling approach, smaller lots created as a result of splitting order quantities are considered to be: