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Question 81

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Four hundred and eighty minutes of production time are available per day.Scheduled production is 120 units per day.What is the required cycle time?

A) 4 minutes
B) 5 minutes
C) 6 minutes
D) 7 minutes
E) 8 minutes

F) A) and E)
G) None of the above

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Question 82

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Balancing a work cell is done

A) before the work cell equipment is sequenced.
B) as part of the process of building an efficient work cell.
C) before takt time is calculated.
D) so that each assembly line workstation has exactly the same amount of work.
E) to minimize the total movement in a process layout.

F) A) and E)
G) C) and E)

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Question 83

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"A special arrangement of machinery and equipment to focus on production of a single product or group of related products" describes what layout type?

What is a servicescape? How is it related to the retail layout problem? What are the three elements of servicescape for dealing with these human issues?

The most common tactic followed in process-layout planning is to arrange departments or work centers so they

Identify the four requirements for cellular production.

A big advantage of a process-oriented layout is

A(n)________ line is a machine-paced product-oriented facility for building components.

A product-oriented layout would be most appropriate for which one of the following businesses?

A product requires 24 separate tasks,and the sum of those task times is 14 minutes;if the cycle time is 2 minutes,then at least 12 workstations will be needed.

Which of the following is true of a focused factory?

A good layout requires determining

What is the role of heuristics in solving layout problems? Provide a brief example,drawing from manufacturing situations,retailing situations,or other service situations.

Ambient conditions,spatial layout and functionality,and signs,symbols,and artifacts are all

________ is that element of balancing a work cell that superficially resembles cycle time.

Develop a solution for the following line balancing problem,allowing a cycle time of 5 minutes. a.Draw the precedence diagram for the set of tasks. b.Calculate the theoretical minimum number of workstations. c.Balance this line using the longest task time heuristic. d.What tasks are assigned to which stations? e.Does the solution have the minimum number of stations? Explain. f.How much idle time is there,summed over all workstations? g.What is the efficiency of this line?

________ is the maximum time that the product is available at each workstation.

The work cell improves process layouts by reducing floor space and by reducing direct labour cost.

Daily capacity of a product layout is determined by

A company is designing a product layout for a new product.It plans to use this production line eight hours a day in order to meet a schedule of 400 units per day.The tasks necessary to produce this product are detailed in the table below. a.Draw the network described in the table. b.Without regard to a production schedule,what is the minimum possible cycle time (in seconds)for this situation;what is the maximum? c.What is the required cycle time (in seconds)in order to meet the schedule? d.What is the theoretical minimum number of workstations needed to meet the schedule? e.Balance this line using longest processing time. f.What is the efficiency of the balance obtained in part e?