TMA3/ENT417

My TMA Home TMA Results My Pending TMA Quick Help My TMATMA InstructionCourse DetailTMA CalendarGrading Message BoardQuick InfoInstructor Message Quiz NoteQuiz Tip - 1Quix Tip - 2 TMA Quiz Questions TMA: TMA3/ENT417 Matric Number:  SCORE-9.50 ENT417 - Production Management I MR. ISREAL-COOKEY S. O. (sisrealcookey@noun.edu.ng ) 1 This is not an undesirable output. Customer dissatisfaction Pollution Labour turnover Sales turnover 2 The primary aim of operations planning is: to ensure that sufficient goods and services are produced to meet demand to ensure that sufficient goods and services are produced to stock to ensure that sufficient goods and services are ordered for to ensure that production schedules are adhered to 3 _____ involves the conversion of inputs by combining them to produce output. Machinery function Production function Production process Support function 4 _______ is concerned with physical layout of production and design of individual jobs. Capacity planning Work design Work schedule Equipment design 5 Types of operations control include the following except: Scheduled control Quantity control Cost control Technology control 6 This is not interested in the production output. the customer the competitor the community the firm 7 Production inputs include the following except: Raw materials Machinery Information Workers' union 8 These are key aspects of system operations except: Operations control Operations planning Operations execution Scheduling 9 Environmental inputs include the following but one: Religious Technological Economic Legal 10 _______ can be achieved through method study and work measurement. Reduced labour turnover Loss minimization Cost minimization High productivity 11 Production function is universal because: it transforms inputs it forms the bulk of a firm's assets and expenditure and people it is talked about everywhere all organizations have a production system irrespective of their primary objective 12 Technology control has this major challenge. To ensure that equipment are arranged for in-house To cut down on the cost of equipment purchase To decide when an equipment is in need of service To ensure that the machinery in use are up-to-date 13 This statement is not correct. There are some differences between production in manufacturing and non-manufacturing sectors It is more difficult to control expenditure in the manufacturing sector There are some differences between different types of organizations operating in the same sector In non-manufacturing, the customers play an active part in the process 14 What is the primary function of production? To convert inputs into different kinds of output To satisfy the customers To source for raw materials To engage the right labour 15 The key factors in system design include the following except: Capacity planning Forecasting demand Location decision Forecasting supply 16 The key decisions in equipment and work design include the following except: equipment replacement strategy to be adopted how much to bargain for the equipment selecting the type of equipment to be used how much of the equipment to be bought 17 This statement is wrong. Capacity planning is very straight forward Equipment design is closely related to product design and capacity planning Effective forecast requires accurate information concerning the market Work design is a method used by management to satisfy conflicting demands 18 ______ ensures the quality of the finished product or service meets the standards set in the design stage and meets with approval of customer. Cost control Labour control Quality control Quantity control 19 Techniques used to ensure optimal solution to the problem of scheduling are the following except: Linear programming Combinations Operations research Queing theory 20 _______ is designed to produce a few standardized products in high quantity at low cost. The process-focused system The product-focused system The cost-focused system The quality-focused system