Operations Management Multiple Choice Questions and Answers

41. ...............is a priority rule that gives top priority to the waiting job whose operation time at a work center is shortest.

1. Material shortage
2. Shortest-processing-time rule
3. a and b
4. None of these

42. ...............is the level of output volume for which total cost equals total revenues

1. Profit
2. Breakeven point
3. sales
4. all of these

43. All of the following are differences between manufacturing and service operations EXCEPT

1. Quality is more easily measured in service operations
2. Productivity is easier to measure in manufacturing operations
3. Contact with customers is more prevalent with persons working in service operations
4. Accumulation or decrease in inventory of finished products is more applicable to manufacturing operations

44. Henry Ford is noted for his contributions to

1. Quality control
2. Assembly line operations
3. Scientific management
4. Standardization of parts

45. is an information management system that connects all departments and disciplines within a company making them an integrated unit.

1. Enterprise asset management
2. Entrepreneurship development
3. Manpower planning
4. None of these

46. Which of the following is the objective of motion study?

1. To eliminate all non-productive and ineffective motions
2. To develop more effective and productive patterns of movements
3. a and b
4. None

47. ...............is a Computer software programs that allow a designer to carry out geometric transformations rapidly.

1. Tally
2. Computer-aided design
3. a andb
4. None of these

48. ...............is measure of the quantity of output per unit of input.

1. Productivity
2. Marketability
3. Sociability
4. None of these

49. ...............is the process of testing the feasibility of master production schedules in terms of capacity.

1. Rough-cut capacity planning
2. Manpower planning
3. Financial planning
4. all of these

50. Which of the following is not an objective of operation management?

1. To improve product quality
2. To reduce cost of production
3. Material cost control
4. Trading on equity