Operations Management Multiple Choice Questions and Answers

21. ...............is concerned with deciding in advance what is to be produced, when to be produced, where to be produced and how to be produced

1. Operational planning
2. Operational control
3. a and b
4. None of these

22. ...............is the management of all activities directly related to the production of goods and services

1. Productionmanagement
2. Finance control
3. Employee development
4. all of these

23. In ............... type of organization, workers receive instructions from various specialists.

1. Line
2. Functional
3. Informal
4. None

24. 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

25. 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

26. ...............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

27. ...............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

28. ...............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

29. 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

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

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