CPIM certification
Customer requirements - answerThe APICS Dictionary, 16th Edition defines House of
Quality as "structured process that relates customer-defined attributes to the product's
technical features needed to support and generate these attributes." What is the starting
point in House of Quality?
Continuous Process Improvement (CPI) - answerCompanies who embrace Kaizen and
encourage ongoing identification and elimination of problem root causes are practicing
which of the following?
Responsible economic growth for the company while providing minimal impact on the
environment - answerSustainability is a basic element of corporate social responsibility.
What is sustainability?
Pricing - answerWarehouses can impact supply chains in each of the following ways
except:
Manufacturing - answerWhich department is responsible for satisfying marketplace
demands?
Purchasing - answerIn the manufacturing planning and control (MPC) hierarchy,
execution begins when planning ends. Execution level activities include production
activity control (PAC) and:
Revenue - answerWhat is the term used to refer to a company's sales?
Engineer-to-order - answerWhich manufacturing environment is least dependent on
near-term forecasting?
Dock-to-stock - answerAs part of your organization's lean production system, it depends
on a few long-term relationships with dependable suppliers to get perfect quality
materials delivered just in time. This is an example of which of the following?
Flow manufacturing - answerIn what manufacturing environment are routings fixed and
work centers arranged in the order of the routings? (Note that production at each work
center is carefully level-loaded.)
intermittent manufacturing - answerThe manufacturing of products in lots or batches
(ex. sports jerseys)
project manufacturing - answerA type of manufacturing process used for large, often
unique, items of structures that require a custom design capability (engineer-to-order).
Customer requirements - answerThe APICS Dictionary, 16th Edition defines House of
Quality as "structured process that relates customer-defined attributes to the product's
technical features needed to support and generate these attributes." What is the starting
point in House of Quality?
Continuous Process Improvement (CPI) - answerCompanies who embrace Kaizen and
encourage ongoing identification and elimination of problem root causes are practicing
which of the following?
Responsible economic growth for the company while providing minimal impact on the
environment - answerSustainability is a basic element of corporate social responsibility.
What is sustainability?
Pricing - answerWarehouses can impact supply chains in each of the following ways
except:
Manufacturing - answerWhich department is responsible for satisfying marketplace
demands?
Purchasing - answerIn the manufacturing planning and control (MPC) hierarchy,
execution begins when planning ends. Execution level activities include production
activity control (PAC) and:
Revenue - answerWhat is the term used to refer to a company's sales?
Engineer-to-order - answerWhich manufacturing environment is least dependent on
near-term forecasting?
Dock-to-stock - answerAs part of your organization's lean production system, it depends
on a few long-term relationships with dependable suppliers to get perfect quality
materials delivered just in time. This is an example of which of the following?
Flow manufacturing - answerIn what manufacturing environment are routings fixed and
work centers arranged in the order of the routings? (Note that production at each work
center is carefully level-loaded.)
intermittent manufacturing - answerThe manufacturing of products in lots or batches
(ex. sports jerseys)
project manufacturing - answerA type of manufacturing process used for large, often
unique, items of structures that require a custom design capability (engineer-to-order).
