Question 1

When a bottleneck is improved by adding another processing station in line with the original station, it is an example of

Group of answer choices

A. Cycle time

B. Parallel processing

C. Flowcharting

D. Series processing

QUESTION 2

If an assembly process consists of 5 steps in series (activity A, activity B, activity C, activity D, and activity E), what activity is the bottleneck if activity A takes 20 seconds, B takes 10 seconds, C takes 30 seconds, D takes 15 seconds, and E takes 5 seconds per unit?

Group of answer choices

Activity E

Activity A

Activity D

Activity B

Activity C

Question 3

Comparing the number of products that must be produced to justify a given process is an example of

Group of answer choices

A. Line balancing

B. time computation

C. Bottleneck analysis

D. Reengineering

E. Break-even analysis

QUESTION 4

Producing products with similar product parts, shapes, and processing requirements on the same machine work center is an example of a/an__________.

Group of answer choices

A. Group technology

B. Project

C. Assembly line

D. Batch process

E. Fixed-position layout

QUESTION 5

If an assembly process consists of 5 steps in series (activity A, activity B, activity C, activity D, and activity E), what is the utilization of the bottleneck activity if A takes 20 seconds, B takes 10 seconds, C takes 30 seconds, D takes 15 seconds, and E takes 5 seconds per unit?

Group of answer choices

A. 33%

B. 50%

C. 100%

D. 12%

E. 66%