Multiple Choice Question for Operations Management

• Out of the following trends in production/operations management, which one is sometimes called as agile manufacturing?
  • Re-engineering
  • Supply-Chain Management
  • Lean Production
  • Flexibility

• Out of the following factors that are affecting Capacity Planning, which one is Less Controllable one?
  • Machine break-downs
  • Amount of labour employed
  • Facilities installed
  • Shifts of work per day

• Which of the following stages of Product Life Cycle does attribute beginning of substantial increase in Sales and Profits?
  • Introduction
  • Growth
  • Maturity
  • Decline

• Which one is NOT an index of Productivity?
  • Man-hour output
  • Productivity ratio
  • TQM
  • Use of Financial Ratios

• The time by which an activity can be rescheduled without affecting the other activities – preceding or succeeding is called as
  • Slack
  • Independent Float
  • Free Float
  • Total Float

• Reliability and per unit cost of which of the following spares are less?
  • Regular spares
  • Insurance spares
  • Capital spares
  • Rotable spares

• The lead-time is the time:
  • To place holders for materials
  • Time of receiving materials
  • Time between receipt of material and using materials,
  • order and receiving the materials Time between placing the

• The method used in scheduling a project is:
  • A schedule of break-down of orders
  • Outline master programme
  • PERT & CPM
  • Schedule for large and integrated work

• MRP stands for:
  • Material requirement planning
  • Material reordering planning
  • Material requisition procedure
  • Material recording procedure

• One of the important charts used in programme control is:
  • Material chart
  • Gantt chart
  • Route chart
  • Inspection chart

• Variety reduction is generally known as:
  • Less varieties
  • Simplification
  • Reduced varieties
  • None of the above

• Conversion of inputs into outputs is known as:
  • Application of technology
  • operations management
  • Manufacturing products
  • product

• Number of product varieties that can be manufactured in Mass production is:
  • One only
  • Two only
  • Few varieties in large volumes
  • Large varieties in small volumes

• Routing and Scheduling becomes relatively complicated in
  • Job production
  • Batch production
  • Flow production
  • Mass production

• JIT stands for
  • Just in time purchase
  • Just in time production
  • Just in time use of materials
  • Just in time order the material

• The first stage in production planning is:
  • Process planning
  • Factory planning
  • Operation planning
  • Layout planning

• Scheduling deals with:
  • Number of jobs to be done on a machine
  • Number of machine tools used to do a job
  • Different materials used in the product
  • Fixing up starting and finishing times of each operation in doing a job

• Example of production by disintegration is:
  • Automobile
  • Locomotive
  • Crude oil
  • Mineral water.

• Fixing Flow lines in production is known as :
  • Scheduling
  • Loading
  • Planning
  • Routing

• The material handling cost per unit of product in continuous production is:
  • Highest compared to other systems
  • Lower than other systems
  • Negligible
  • Cannot say.

• (Total station time/Cycle time x Number of work stations) x 100 is known as:
  • Line Efficiency
  • Line smoothness
  • Balance delay of line
  • Station efficiency

• Tempering is a process of:
  • Joining
  • Heat Treatment
  • Surface Treatment
  • Forming

• For production planning:
  • Short term forecasting is useful
  • Medium term forecasting is useful
  • Long term forecasting is useful
  • Forecasting is not useful.

• Scheduling shows:
  • Total cost of production
  • Total material cost
  • Which resource should do which job and when
  • The flow line of materials

• Linear Programming is a technique used for determining:
  • Production Programme
  • Plant Layout
  • Product Mix
  • Manufacturing Sequence.

• The effective capacity is NOT influenced by which of the following factors:
  • Forecasts of demand
  • Plant and labour efficiency
  • Subcontracting
  • None of the above

• Key aspects in process strategy does NOT include which of the following:
  • Make or buy decisions
  • Capital intensity
  • Process flexibility
  • Packaging

• The example of worker involvement, as a recent trend in production/operations management is
  • SCM
  • Just-in-Time
  • Quality Circle
  • MRP

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