This set of Production Planning and Control Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on “Process Categories”.
1. Which of the following is not a process category?
a) Job process
b) Batch or intermittent processing
c) Production
d) Project
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Explanation: Job process, batch or intermittent processing and project are the processes which are carried out during a production while production is the entire combination of processes.
2. Which of the following process typically assumes a one-of-kind production output?
a) Project
b) Job process
c) Flow process
d) Batch process
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Explanation: Project making is based on an already made product. It gives similar output with some internal changes such as making a new mobile phone.
3. Job processes are typically designed for flexibility.
a) True
b) False
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Explanation: Job processes are typically designed for flexibility so as to make it useful for different production requirements and adapt to the changes made in the system.
4. Which one of the following is considered as the “middle of the road”?
a) Flow processing
b) Intermittent processing
c) Job processing
d) Continuous processing
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Explanation: Intermittent processing or batch processing is the almost the main process of a production where manufacturing of the product takes place and all the processes are completed after that.
5. Which of the following designs is used in repetitive processing?
a) MTO
b) ETO
c) ATO
d) MTS
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Explanation: Make-to-stock designs are used in repetitive processing as in this production is done in very large quantity and in narrow range. This processing is done for the designs which can be stored and used later.
6. Aggregate planning refers to the planning of production_____
a) At the broadest long term period levels
b) At the short term period levels
c) Work force and inventory at the broadest levels
d) Work force and inventory at the short term period levels
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Explanation: Aggregate planning is the planning which is made an year before the actual production starts making it broadest for the inventory and the work force.
7. When is the determination of sequence of operations performed and the allocation of facilities made?
a) Master scheduling
b) Aggregate planning
c) Routing
d) Forecasting
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Explanation: Routing is the first process made so as to get the replica of the processes to be done and in sequence. The allocation of facilities is also made during the process so that no error occurs during the process.
8. Which decision making process is used to determine when a job is to be started in a machine and when it is to be completed?
a) Scheduling
b) Routing
c) Master scheduling
d) Aggregate planning
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Explanation: Scheduling is the process where all the timing of the processes are made such that the production of the required product don’t get delayed and so the start and end of a job in a machine is also made in scheduling.
9. The order in which different jobs are being taken up in a machine or process is called?
a) Scheduling
b) Sequencing
c) Routing
d) Aggregate planning
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Explanation: Sequencing in a production decides when a machine has to work or start and the order of jobs to be taken up by the machine.
10. What is it called when the flow of work that is unidirectional in the sense that all jobs require operations and processing in the same order?
a) Sequencing
b) Routing
c) Scheduling
d) Flow shop
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Explanation: In flow shop process, the processing route is same for the entire production time and so it is called unidirectional which means all the process are always in the same direction.
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