This set of Production Planning and Control Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on “Customer Influence in Design: Production Environmental Choices”.
1. What is the most critical factor which impacts the design of planning and control system?
a) Volume and variety of the expected output
b) Standard process sheet and load charts
c) Changes in demand and rush orders
d) Non-availability of materials
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Explanation: Volume and variety of expected output are the issues which tend to be largely driven by the amount of influence the customer has in the design of the product or service delivered to them from the organization’s processes.
2. In some cases the issue of customer design influence is a part of firm’s basic strategy.
a) True
b) False
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Explanation: Yes, in some cases, the issue of customer design influences the firm’s basic strategy as they have to make sure that the design, machine, etc should be according to the need of the customer.
3. What is the full form of MTS?
a) Make-to-Staple
b) Make-to-Service
c) Make-to-Separate
d) Make-to-Stock
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Explanation: Make-to-Stock (MTS) is the product that is completely made into their final form and stocked as finished goods.
4. In which of the following case the customer has influence on the design, in which they can select various options from predesigned subassemblies?
a) MTO
b) ATO
c) MTS
d) ETO
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Explanation: In Assemble-to-Order the customer has influence on the design, in that they can select options from predesigned subassemblies and the producer will then assemble these parts into the final product. But in MTS, only collective customer base can influence the overall design of the options and final products.
5. What is it called when a customer can choose from a variety of colors, body styles, engines, transmissions and other pure options such as cruise control?
a) Make-to-order
b) Engineer-to-order
c) Package-to-order
d) Assemble-to-order
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Explanation: In Package-to-order the packaging is customer specified i.e. customers can select the color, body style, engines and transmission of their choice and the final product will be made according to that.
6. What is the type of information we get from scheduling chart?
a) When the work will be completed
b) To what extent the machines are utilized
c) When does the work start and how much will be completed in a particular time
d) To what extent can the idling time be eliminated
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Explanation: Scheduling chart gives all the information about the processes in a manufacturing system, when the work starts and how much it will be completed in a particular time.
7. Routing is a process of_____
a) Preparing the time table for production
b) Determining the flow of materials during the process
c) Instructing the procedure of production
d) Making a guideline for action
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Explanation: Routing is the first step in production planning. It determines the path of operations to be done or the flow of materials i.e. under which process the material is going on.
8. In which of the following, transformation is done having essentially one ingredient as input and producing several outputs?
a) Transformation by integration
b) Transformation by disintegration
c) Transformation by service
d) Transformation by equipment
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Explanation: Transformation by disintegration has only one ingredient as an input and produces several other outputs. This transformation is invariably accompanied by changes in the physical shape of the input such as change in physical state or geometrical form.
9. Which function authorizes production as well as control?
a) Routing
b) Scheduling
c) Dispatching
d) Expediting
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Explanation: Routing prescribes the sequence of operations where and by whom the work will be done, dispatching is concerned with the execution of the planning functions, expediting is the executive arm that keeps a close watch on the progress of the work and in scheduling machines have to loaded according to the their capacity of performing the given task and according to their capacity.
10. Which chart is useful for scheduling and control?
a) Kanban
b) Gantt chart
c) Flow process chart
d) X and R chart
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Explanation: A Gantt chart describes all the schedule of the machine, when the machine is in progress and when at rest and how it is been controlled.
11. Which function is intended for completion of job within the due date that can be monitored and followed up?
a) Scheduling
b) Expediting
c) Routing
d) Dispatching
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Explanation: Expediting also called follow up or progress, maintains the production plans and sees then through their completion.
12. What is the prime input for aggregate planning?
a) Active forecasting
b) Passive forecasting
c) Demand forecasting
d) Economic forecasting
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Explanation: Demand forecasting provides an estimate on the quantity of goods that its customer will purchase in the future which the first and primary step in planning.
13. What is the preplanning of productions, work force and inventory at the broadest level called?
a) Regression
b) Forecasting
c) Aggregate planning
d) Exponential smoothening
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Explanation: Aggregate planning in a production system is the aggregate plan which is done before a year, so the idea is given to the management as to how much the material is required and the amount of resources produced.
14. What is the degree of relationship between two or more variables called?
a) Correlation
b) Seasonal index
c) Regression
d) Delphi
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Explanation: Correlation is a mutual relationship between two or more variables. It can be positive when both the variables are moving in the same direction and negative when one variable is decreasing and the other is increasing.
15. Regression method of forecasting is mainly applicable for_____
a) Casual models
b) Qualitative forecasting
c) Time-series models
d) Delphi method
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Explanation: Regression method is a set of processes used to estimate the relationship between variables which can be dependent and independent and these variables are called casual models.
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