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Course Introduction
Industrial Engineering is a multidisciplinary field focused on designing, improving, and optimizing complex systems and processes in industries and organizations. It integrates principles from engineering, mathematics, management, and social sciences to enhance productivity, efficiency, quality, and safety across a wide range of sectors including manufacturing, healthcare, logistics, and service industries. Students learn about systems analysis, operations research, production planning, quality control, ergonomics, and supply chain management, preparing them to address challenges related to cost reduction, process optimization, and resource allocation in diverse professional environments.
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Production and Operations Management 2nd Edition by Martin Starr
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Chapter 1: Product Line Planning and the Systems Approach
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Q1) How does Atomic Dog/Cengage Learning get its products to market faster and cheaper than traditional publishers?
Answer: The power of the model used by Atomic Dog/Cengage Learning Publishing is a continuous,nonlinear one.It is interactive and by design is faster and cheaper.The process supports interaction and feedback on both problems and new feature requests.The process results in a continuously evolving textbook and is similar to the software revision process.
Q2) The relevance of service to customers is of decreasing importance as part of the total package that the manufacturer must deliver.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Combine analysis and synthesis to obtain the systems approach called A)interspection.
B)extraspection.
C)construction.
D)introspection.
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Productivity and Strategic Planning
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Q1) Decreasing quality to match lower prices is not a way to keep customers.
A)True
B)False Answer: True
Q2) Operational measures of productivity are valuable to companies that are focused on continuous improvement.
A)True
B)False Answer: True
Q3) Output delivered to the customer is a measure of the ability of the distribution system to be on-time with undamaged deliveries.
A)True
B)False Answer: True
Q4) Asking for increased productivity is another way to ask for lower costs.This is not equivalent to asking for labor cuts.
A)True
B)False Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Demand Creation and Predictive Planning
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Q1) _____ are based on assumptions of linear relationship between xt and yt .
A)Straight equations
B)Linear relationships
C)Normal equations
D)Simple equations
Answer: C
Q2) The historical forecast is not based on the assumption that what happened last year will happen again.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) When using regression analysis the simplest assumption that is generally made first is that the relationship between the correlate pairs is nonlinear.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Understanding Quality: ITS Management and Strategic Importance
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Q1) Speed of service is an important auxiliary when considering reparability.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Variety does not increase a brand's market share because people do not like to switch flavors from time to time.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The quality improvement act signed into law on August 20,1987 was
A)the Deming prize.
B)the Baldrige award.
C)zero defects.
D)TQM.
Q4) The purpose of _____ is to set the inspection parameters for drawing a sample from a production lot.
A)six-sigma
B)extreme quality achievement
C)acceptance sampling methods
D)Taguchi methods
Q5) Why do we need international standards?
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Q6) Discuss both the producer's and the consumer's view of quality.
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Chapter 5: Process Configuration Strategies
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Q1) The issue of storage of components and timing of their delivery is directly related to the rate at which the process is working.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Henry Ford believed the Model T could be improved but the process of making it could not.
A)True B)False
Q3) Flow shops are serialized work configurations where one unit of work is at various stages of completion at sequential workstations location along the production line.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Contingency planning requires first addressing what might be done to avoid damage and disaster before identifying things that might happen.
A)True B)False
Q5) Define benchmarking.How is it used?
Q6) What were the key elements in the success of Henry Ford?
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Chapter 6: Process Analysis and Redesign
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Q1) Strategic thinking for P/OM is related to altering the competitive situation by means of operating plans and decisions.
A)True
B)False
Q2) _____ remains a leader in time-based management.
A)Lands' End'
B)Motorola
C)FedEx
D)Komatsu
Q3) Most forms of process charts include
A)times required.
B)lot sizes.
C)transportation distances for batches.
D)all of the above
Q4) The _____ chart provides both visual and quantitative data that summarizes the pros and cons of making changes.
A)flow
B)process
C)control
D)operations
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Chapter 7: Quality Assurance
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Q1) _____ provides the greatest number of methods for determining if a process is stable.
A)Chance and assignable cause analysis
B)Pareto analysis
C)Statistical process control (SPC)
D)Statistical quality control (SQC)
Q2) Why must management have a thorough understanding of the production process?
Q3) _____ track and account for the number of nonconformities of a part,
A)p-charts
B)c-charts
C)x-bar charts
D)Bar charts
E)g.,number of bubbles in a pane of glass.
Q4) The relationship between the variability of a stable parent distribution and that of the distribution of the sample means is known as the central limit theorem.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What are the most important goals for process analysis?
Q6) What is "zed" or ZD?
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Chapter 8: Management of Technology Mot
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Q1) It has been said that the P/OM workforce has been replacing white-collar scholars with blue-collar workers.
A)True
B)False
Q2) If it is feasible to produce a large experimental production run,and if it is reasonable to employ statistical design methods-such as the analysis of variance-the power of the _____ study is enhanced.
A)DFM/DFA
B)P/OM/TQM
C)DFD
D)TQM
Q3) The systems analysis entails getting answers to the following lines of inquiry:
A)What product-protection parameters have been specified for the packaging?
B)Did the actual handling of the package that resulted in product breakage fall outside of the designer's specifications?
C)Has something permanently changed in the delivery system's way of handling the package?
D)all of the above
Q4) What is cybernetics and why is it important to P/OM?
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Chapter 9: Teamwork Planning Requires Job Design
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Q1) The key finding of the Hawthorne effect was that employees responded negatively to management's interest and attention.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The common thread for successful teamwork is a comprehensive strategy clearly understood by all of the participants in the organization.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Diagnostic production studies,where the worker is observed constantly over a long period,go back to the early _____'s.
A)1800
B)1900
C)1950
D)1980
Q4) The manufacturing workforce in the United States today is _____ in size.
A)increasing
B)decreasing
C)neither increasing nor decreasing
D)increasing at a decreasing rate
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Chapter 10: Supply Chain Capacity Planning
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Q1) The systems point of view includes cash as part of the firm's resources because cash can be converted into new machines,and also trained operators,which alters actual A)time available.
B)efficiency.
C)capacity.
D)utilization.
Q2) A decision model can best be explained in terms of A)strategies.
B)probabilities of states of nature.
C)expected values for outcomes.
D)states of nature.
E)all of the above
Q3) A six sigma control limit equals 3.4 defects per _____ parts.
A)hundred
B)thousand
C)million
D)billion
Q4) What is capacity? How is it defined? Is 100 percent capacity realistic?
Q5) What are the implications of bottlenecks on capacity?
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Chapter 11: Facilities Planning: Location and Layout
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Q1) Suboptimization is best described as
A)results that stray from achieving the objectives that drive strategies.
B)plans for arranging satisfactory working environments using company facilities.
C)satisfactory alternative strategies for building a new facility.
D)the result,or series of results,that achieve the strategic-driven objectives.
Q2) _____ are graphic methods of trial and error that are used by interior decorators.
A)Floor plan drawings
B)Dimensional plans
C)Floor plan models
D)all of the above
Q3) List the applications that the scoring model is useful for.
Q4) List the six factors that can affect location decision.
Q5) The symbol used in the text for the dummy market is _____ and the dummy takes up the slack between _____.
A)DM;supply and demand
B)MD;supply and demand
C)MM;new and old SKU
D)MA;demand and supply
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Chapter 12: Materials Management Impacts All Supply
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Q1) What are Purchasing Records?
Q2) The price-tag approach has been thrown out in favor of long-term relationships with special,trusted suppliers.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Failing to achieve high turnover rates can be caused by
A)carrying excessive inventories.
B)overestimating demand.
C)prices being too high for customers.
D)smart competitive moves.
E)all of the above
Q4) In what way can suppliers be monitored for their compliance with total quality management programs?
A)ISO 9000 standards
B)Baldrige Awards-award criteria
C)Lead time management programs.
D)all of the above
E)none of the above
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Q5) To where has outsourcing moved the labor component?
Q6) Name some of activities accomplished by the purchasing mission.
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Chapter 13: Aggregate Planning to Balance Supply and Demand
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Q1) HMMS is the four-letter abbreviation created to stand for A)Holt.
B)Modigliani.
C)Math.
D)Simon.
E)all of the above except c,which should be Muth.
Q2) Which level of production planning requires a forecast?
A)first level (aggregate planning)
B)second level (loading)
C)third level (sequencing)
D)fourth level (LP planning)
Q3) The aggregate planning problem requires _____ that will optimize the total system's performance.
A)period-by-period solutions
B)one period solutions
C)aggregate solutions
D)single period solutions
Q4) What is determined by the position of the cost lines in trade-off model (such as Figure 13-7)?
Q5) Briefly describe the three levels of production scheduling.
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Chapter 14: Inventory Management for Smooth and Continuous Demand Patterns
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Q1) The minimum value of TVC can be obtained by _____ methods.
A)quantitative
B)economic
C)graphical
D)trial and error
E)all of the above
Q2) The two major types of applications of order point policies are the perpetual inventory system and the periodic inventory system.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The importance of being on time with project completions has led to the development of
A)just-in-time inventory methods.
B)critical path methods.
C)flexible manufacturing systems.
D)order-point policies.
Q4) Backorder costs include the effects of word-of-mouth praise on obtaining new customers.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Material Requirements Planning Mrp for
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Q1) End products are defined as the parent product and they have independent demand systems.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Computer-based MRP systems were first described in a 1975 book by Joseph Juran.
A)True
B)False
Q3) MRP II _____ reevaluation of the way that work is being done.
A)supports
B)encourages
C)neither supports nor encourages
D)supports and encourages
Q4) MRP reflects the systems viewpoint by connecting the parent products and the A)independent parts that join parent products.
B)demand distributions.
C)dependent parts.
D)supply distributions.
E)grandparent products.
Q5) What is net change MRP?
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Chapter 16: Production Scheduling for Manufacturing and Service Operations
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Q1) S.M.Johnson's algorithm derives the minimum completion times for all "no passing" cases."No passing" means:
A)the order of processing jobs through the first facility must be preserved at the last facility.
B)the order of processing jobs through the first facility must be preserved for the next facility.
C)the order of processing jobs through the first facility must be preserved for all subsequent facilities.
D)none of the above
Q2) Loading assigns work at the facilities and specifies the order in which jobs should be done.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What are the advantages of the assignment method for production scheduling and for services?
Q4) Sequencing inflexibility occurs when the updating of charts (redrawing them) is supported by software.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 17: Cycle-Time Management Increases
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Q1) For line-balancing,operation times (to be balanced at workstations) should be increased to reflect longest times that might be experienced with each operation.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Line-balancing is the effort to nearly equalize the output rate capabilities of successive workstations on the production line.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Heuristic line-balancing methods are only economically feasible for job shop problems.
A)True
B)False
Q4) When operation times are randomly distributed over time,they are said to be A)queue distributed.
B)serialized.
C)balanced.
D)stochastic.
Q5) Can perfect balance be achieved? Why?
Q6) Describe the behavior of a single channel system.
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Chapter 18: Project Management for New Products and Processes
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Q1) Which factors are important aspects of project management?
A)There is insufficient ROI until project completion.
B)Rapid completion is essential.
C)Project managers must be guided by strategic planning.
D)all of the above
Q2) Which choice translates to allowable slippage in an activity's schedule along a slack path?
A)LS - ES > 0
B)LF - EF > 0
C)Slack > 0
D)all of the above
Q3) Explain activities on nodes (AON) networks.
Q4) Which of the choices below translates to identification of activities that fall along the critical path?
A)LS - ES = 0
B)LF - EF = 0
C)Slack = 0
D)all of the above
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Q5) Define explicit knowledge and how it allows for information transfer.Give two examples of explicit knowledge.
Chapter 19: Change Management With Faster Project Completions
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Q1) _____ is parallel and simultaneous work along many project paths.
A)Concurrent engineering
B)Smart use of pilot study
C)Duplicate experimentation
D)none of the above
Q2) _____ reflect integrity to protect employees from noxious fumes,toxic substances,unsafe machines,nonsanitary facilities,jumbled storage,and combustible materials.
A)Union complaints about safety measures
B)Safety laws of the federal government
C)Ethics of the workplace
D)Safety records on the wall
Q3) Which of the following is a teamwork concept as long as it is used to encourage cooperative improvement and not as a basis for penalizing lower-grade departments?
A)benchmarking old technology departments against new-technology departments
B)benchmarking similar departments
C)benchmarking dissimilar departments
D)benchmarking competitor's departments
Q4) On what is the Ferris Wheel model for continuous project management based?
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Chapter 20: Sustainability Issues: Environment, Ethics, and Security
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Q1) _____ is a system designed to prevent food hazards from arising without being detected.
A)FAA checkoff
B)FDA quality control
C)HACCP
D)HAPCC
Q2) _____ starts with a generic environmental policy with flexible management systems to plan the environmental programs.
A)ISO 14000
B)ISO 14001
C)ISO 9000
D)ISO 17799
Q3) Which of the follow is correct?
A)There is increasing pressure to move more manned space exploration toward robot sojourns.
B)Robots have been used traditionally for drug and bomb material detection.
C)Corporate security officers (CSOs) are being replaced by robots.
D)none of the above
Q4) Discuss Design for Assembly (DFA).
Q5) What is the role of the CDC in the U.S.?
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