Production Planning and Work Flow

Spare parts used in repair work are typically included in the calculation of __________.

Production downtime

How many units of the product were created on 3/11?

- 51

In a production process, the time required to create a finished product is determined by the slowest processing station. The slowest station, often called a __________, therefore limits the maximum rate of production.

- bottleneck

Red tags are used to indicate scrapped parts while a yellow tag indicates a part that __________.

- has been placed on hold

__________ is a method of organizing the production of a similar group of products in a cell, or work cell, that contains all the machines that are needed to produce that group of products.

- Cellular manufacturing

A part that is out-of-spec can either be scrapped or __________.

- reworked to bring the part within the specifications

A system that supplies quality products using a pull system instead of the traditional push system of product flow is __________.

- JIT

Due to the increase in gasoline costs, a part vendor is offsetting his increased delivery costs by increasing the price of all his products 15%. If the cost of the part that you were buying was $18.50/unit, what will it cost after the price increase?

- $21.28/unit

Machine downtime due to component failure results in __________.

- lowering the productivity per labor hour

The accuracy of a time study is improved if you time __________ doing the same job.

- more than one worker

A process's __________ is the rate at which a production system creates a finished product.

- capacity

Machine time, quality requirements, and task time are __________.

- Required documents for a process

The average time a specific job takes is determined by __________.

- time and motion studies

Manufacturing paths are indicated by __________ documents.

- process flow

Reallocation of resources is the best way to __________.

- Increase production if current production cannot meet the demand

On a bill of materials, the __________ indicates which parts form each subassembly.

- part level number

Reducing the amount of non-value work in a process __________.

- is a method of improving the process.

Only the supervisor or a person in the quality assurance department can decide if a part on hold should be __________.

- Scrapped or reworked