Operations Management Multiple Choice Questions and Answers

151. Which of the following is not an advantage of single story building?

1. There is a greater flexibility in layout
2. Expansion is easily ensured by the removal of walls
3. low cost of transportation and material handling charges
4. More land is required for building construction

152. Which of the following is not a limitation of multi-story building?

1. Materials handling becomes very complicated
2. A lot of floor space is wasted on elevators stairways and fire escapes
3. Natural lighting is poor
4. Less land is required

153. Which of the following is not an objective of quality circle?

1. To improve quality
2. To improve productivity
3. Trading on equity
4. None of these

154. Which of the following is not a principles of TQM?

1. Customer focus
2. Continuous improvement
3. Team approach
4. Black marketing

155. Which of the following is not a quality of good plant layout?

1. To reduce material handling cost
2. To provide enough production facility
3. To reduce labour efficiency
4. To provide ease of supervision

156. ...............is the systematic recording and critical examination of existing and the proposed way of doing work as a means of developing effective methods.

1. Method study
2. Time study
3. Time booking
4. None of these

157. Which of the following is not anobjective of good plant layout?

1. To improve productivity
2. To provide safety to employees
3. Toincrease the number of accidents
4. to provide easy supervision

158. The costs of all activities incurred to prevent poor quality in products and services.

1. Prevention cost
2. Appraisal cost
3. Failure cost
4. None of the above

159. Which of the following is not an objective of MRP?

1. Reduction in inventory cost
2. Meeting delivery schedule
3. Improve the performance of production
4. To decrease production efficiency

160. This cost is the cost associated with measuring evaluating, or auditing products or services to assure conformance to quality standards and performance requirements

1. Prevention cost
2. Appraisal cost
3. Failure cost
4. None of the above