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Question 21

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Which of the following is not a "tool" (technique) for shop-floor control?

A) Anticipated delay report
B) Input/output (I/O) control
C) Daily dispatch lists
D) Product structure tree
E) Schedule/control Gantt chart

F) B) and C)
G) All of the above

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Question 22

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A scheduling rule used for sequencing jobs through two work centres is:

A) critical ratio rule.
B) Johnson's rule.
C) minimum slack time rule.
D) shortest processing time rule.
E) earliest due date rule.

F) C) and E)
G) C) and D)

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Input/Output (I/O) control is used to: I.manage work flows and queues at a work centre. II.prevent overloading or underutilization of a work centre. III.minimize WIP at a work centre.

Monitoring and managing the work flow at each work centre on the shop-floor of a production facility is called:

Scheduling that starts with the present time and continues into the future is called:

A primary reason why staff scheduling in services can be more challenging than it is for manufacturing is:

For the jobs listed below,which processing sequence would result using Johnson's Rule?

The term loading,as used in scheduling,refers to choosing the sequence of jobs to process.

What is the idle time at machine B for the optimum schedule?

Make-span is the total time needed to complete a group of jobs.

A schedule/control Gantt chart is a visual representation of progress on the shop-floor which shows _______ on a vertical axis,and _______ on the horizontal axis.

Determine the minimum number of workers needed,and a schedule for the following staffing requirements,giving workers two consecutive days off per cycle.

A schedule/control Gantt chart can be used to monitor job progress.

The scheduling sequencing rule which always results in the lowest average flow (flow) time is the:

In the drum-buffer-rope conceptualization used in the theory of constraints,the "buffer" refers to:

A schedule/control Gantt chart depicts jobs or their components versus time to illustrate if they are behind or ahead of schedule.

The sequence that would result using the SPT rule is:

Forward scheduling is based on completing jobs exactly on their due date.

Priority rules generally assume that a job's setup time is independent of the sequence of processing jobs.

The following questions refer to the table data for jobs awaiting processing at a single work station (jobs are shown in order of arrival): -What is the schedule sequence using the first come,first served (FCFS)priority rule?