You are leading a cross$-$functional team to determine how your company will tackle the production of its new line of smartphones. You have convened a meeting of representative: sales, operations, manufacturing, finance, and logistics to discuss the relevant issues.

Before you start the discussion, you want to make sure all parties understand some basic concepts that will be discussed related to production design planning. You ask them to pl quick game of "Design Planning" Jeopardy with you. Choose the appropriate design planning concept from the drop$-$down menu that best matches the Jeopardy$-$style questions bel

a$.$ What is the first step in the design planning process?

b$.$ What is a group of similar products that differ only in relatively minor characteristics:

c$.$ What is computer$-$aided manufacturing? Select

d$.$ What is the amount of product that an organization can produce in a given period of time?