Operations Management Objective Questions Answers for Practice

76. Which of the following is a characteristic of intermittent production system?

1. The flow of production is intermittent
2. The volume of production is generally small
3. A wide variety of products are produced
4. all of these

77. ...............is defined as the combination of tasks that are required to keep a machine or part of a machine in the desirable condition.

1. Substitution
2. Maintenance
3. reduction
4. Induction

78. Which of the following is incorrect in the case of job production?

1. More variety of products is manufactured as per customers requirements
2. Volume of production is large
3. Highly skilled employees are required who can take up each job as a challenge
4. Detailed planning is essential for sequencing the requirements of each product

79. ...............involves systematically recording, analysing and synthesizing the times required to perform a motion.

1. Method study
2. Motion study
3. Time study
4. all of these

80. Which of the following is an advantage of job production?

1. It tries to satisfy the unique requirements of customers
2. Employees will become more skilled
3. Full potential of employees can be utilised
4. all of these

81. ...............refers to the manufacturing of large volume of a single or a very few varieties of products with a standard set of processes

1. Continuous production
2. Intermittent production
3. Project production
4. None of these

82. Which of the following is a limitation of job production system?

1. Higher cost due to frequent set up changes
2. Higher level of inventory at all levels and it results in higher inventorycost
3. Production planning is complicated
4. all of these

83. ...............is the process of predicting and defining the long-term and the short-term capacity needs of an organisation and determining how those needs will be satisfied.

1. Capacity planning
2. Capacity control
3. Staff fixation
4. instrumentalisation

84. Which of the following is a part of product life cycle

1. Introduction phase
2. Growth phase
3. Saturation phase
4. all of these

85. ...............is a measure the actual level of output for a process or activity over a period of time.

1. Actual capacity
2. Design capacity
3. Maximum capacity
4. None of these

86. ...............is the process of careful step by step of dismantling of existing product in order to understand its unique underlying concepts

1. Reverse engineering
2. Civil engineering
3. a and b
4. None of these

87. ...............refers to the process of creating new products or modifying the existing ones within a predetermined time frame and cost price

1. Product design
2. Product development
3. Market development
4. None of these

88. Frederick Winslow Taylor is called

1. Father of operations research
2. Father of marketing management
3. Father of financial management
4. Father of scientific management

89. In the case of ...............the products are produced as per the specifications of the customers within prefixed time and cost

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

90. Which of the following technique is employed for measuring work

1. Time study
2. Work sampling
3. Predetermined motion time studies
4. all of these