Questions and Answers.
A product's life cycle is divided into four stages, including:
a. introduction.
b. growth.
c. maturity.
d. all of the above. - Answer all of the above.
Product development systems include:
a. bills of material.
b. routing charts.
c. functional specifications.
d. product-by-values analysis.
e. configuration management. - Answer functional specifications.
A house of quality is:
a. a matrix relating customer "wants" to the firm's "hows."
b. a schematic showing how a product is put together.
c. a list of the operations necessary to produce a component.
d. an instruction to make a given quantity of a particular item.
e. a set of detailed instructions about how to perform a task. - Answer a matrix relating
customer "wants" to the firm's "hows."
Time-based competition focuses on:
a. moving new products to market more quickly.
b. reducing the life cycle of a product.
c. linking QFD to PLM.
d. design database availability.
e. value engineering. - Answer moving new products to market more quickly.
, Products are defined by:
a. value analysis.
b. value engineering.
c. routing sheets.
d. assembly charts.
e. engineering drawings. - Answer engineering drawings.
A route sheet:
a. lists the operations necessary to produce a component.
b. is an instruction to make a given quantity of a particular item.
c. is a schematic showing how a product is assembled.
d. is a document showing the flow of product components.
e. all of the above. - Answer lists the operations necessary to produce a component.
The three process regions in a process-chain-network diagram are:
a. manufacture, supplier, customer
b. direct and surrogate, customer, provider
c. independent, dependent, customer interaction
d. direct interaction, surrogate interaction, independent processing - Answer direct
interaction, surrogate interaction, independent processing
Decision trees use:
a. probabilities.
b. payoffs.
c. logic.
d. options.
e. all of the above. - Answer all of the above.
Corporate social responsibility includes:
a. doing what's right.