Operations Management Multiple Choice Questions and Answers

21. Operations management is applicable

1. Mostly to the service sector
2. Mostly to the manufacturing sector
3. to manufacturing and service sectors
4. To services exclusively

22. Which one of the following is an objective of maintenance management?

1. To reduce breakdown of machineries
2. To keep the machines and other facilities in a good condition
3. To keep the plant in good working condition
4. all of these

23. ...............is an organized creative approach which has its objective, the efficient identification of unnecessary costùcost which provides neither quality nor use nor life nor appearance nor customer features.

1. Money chain
2. Value analysis
3. Supply chain
4. None of these

24. ...............is the analysis and comparisons of items to group them into families with similar characteristics

1. Mass technology
2. Group Technology
3. Independent technology
4. None of these

25. ...............refers to the development of the concept or idea of a product in terms of specifications which are required for transforming the idea in to product

1. Product design
2. Product development
3. a and b
4. None of these

26. Production facilities are arranged as per the sequence of production operations from the first operations to the finished product. This method is called

1. Process production
2. Job production
3. Both of these
4. None of these

27. The person most responsible for popularizing interchangeable parts in manufacturing was

1. Eli Whitney
2. Whitney Houston
3. Sergio Farmerson
4. Lillian Gilbreth

28. Which of the following statement is not true in the case of goods?

1. Tangibility
2. Can be stored
3. Physical shape
4. Intangibility

29. ...............are those materials and equipments which have no immediate use but have accumulated due to faulty planning, forecasting and purchasing.

1. Surplus items
2. Deficit items
3. a and b
4. None of these

30. ...............is one that is capable of producing a variety of products (or parts) with virtually no time lost for changeovers form one product to the next.

1. A flexible automated system
2. A fixed automated system
3. a andb
4. None of these