COB 300 OPERATIONS TEST PAPER
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS VERIFIED
ANSWERS
●● Steps of Production Process
Answer: 1. source the parts needed
2. make the product
3. deliver the product
●● Lead time
Answer: the time needed to respond to a customer order
●● Make to stock
Answer: serve customers from finished goods inventory
ex: packaged food
●● Assemble to order
Answer: Combine a number of preassembled modules to meet a
customer's specifications
ex: dell computers
●● Make to order
,Answer: Make the customer's product from raw materials, parts, and
components
ex: some restaurants
●● Engineer to order
Answer: Work with the customer to design and then make the product
ex: aircrafts
●● How are production process organized?
Answer: 1. Project Layout
2. Work Center
3. Manufacturing Cell
4. Assembly Line
5. Continuous Improvement
●● Project Layout
Answer: A setup in which the product remains at one location, and
equipment is moved to the product.
ex: Making a movie, airplanes, houses
●● Work Center
Answer: -similar equipment or functions are grouped together
-A part being worked on travels from work center to work center
, -Work center = Department
-Arrange work centers in a way that optimizes the movement of
material.
-Place work centers with large interdepartmental traffic adjacent to each
other
ex: hospital procedure
●● Manufacturing Cell
Answer: -A manufacturing cell is a dedicated area where products that
are similar in processing requirements are produced.
-Formed by allocating dissimilar machines to cells that are designed to
work on similar products (shape, processing, etc.)
-A firm may have many different cells in a production area, each set up
to produce a single product/a similar group of products
ex: computer chip manufacturing
●● Assembly Line
Answer: Designed for the special purpose of building a product by going
through a series of progressive steps
ex: car production
●● Discrete process
Answer: Assembly line (e.g., toys, appliances, automobiles)
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS VERIFIED
ANSWERS
●● Steps of Production Process
Answer: 1. source the parts needed
2. make the product
3. deliver the product
●● Lead time
Answer: the time needed to respond to a customer order
●● Make to stock
Answer: serve customers from finished goods inventory
ex: packaged food
●● Assemble to order
Answer: Combine a number of preassembled modules to meet a
customer's specifications
ex: dell computers
●● Make to order
,Answer: Make the customer's product from raw materials, parts, and
components
ex: some restaurants
●● Engineer to order
Answer: Work with the customer to design and then make the product
ex: aircrafts
●● How are production process organized?
Answer: 1. Project Layout
2. Work Center
3. Manufacturing Cell
4. Assembly Line
5. Continuous Improvement
●● Project Layout
Answer: A setup in which the product remains at one location, and
equipment is moved to the product.
ex: Making a movie, airplanes, houses
●● Work Center
Answer: -similar equipment or functions are grouped together
-A part being worked on travels from work center to work center
, -Work center = Department
-Arrange work centers in a way that optimizes the movement of
material.
-Place work centers with large interdepartmental traffic adjacent to each
other
ex: hospital procedure
●● Manufacturing Cell
Answer: -A manufacturing cell is a dedicated area where products that
are similar in processing requirements are produced.
-Formed by allocating dissimilar machines to cells that are designed to
work on similar products (shape, processing, etc.)
-A firm may have many different cells in a production area, each set up
to produce a single product/a similar group of products
ex: computer chip manufacturing
●● Assembly Line
Answer: Designed for the special purpose of building a product by going
through a series of progressive steps
ex: car production
●● Discrete process
Answer: Assembly line (e.g., toys, appliances, automobiles)
