451 Final Exam Question And
Answers
Manning level in the context of manual assembly lines - correct answer The number of workers
assigned to a workstation
Utility workers - correct answer Workers who are assigned to the line but not to specific
workstations
Blocking - correct answer Operation has completed the assigned task on the current work unit
but cannot pass the unit to the downstream station because that worker is not yet ready to
receive it
Three line balancing algorithms - correct answer Largest candidate rule, kilbridge and wester,
ranked positional weights
Tolerance time - correct answer The amount of time a work unit spends inside the boundaries
of the workstation. It is the length of the station divided by the conveyor velocity
Pipelines - correct answer Transport of gasses, liquids, and slurries in large volumes
Cross-docking - correct answer Warehouse operation in which shipments are received from
suppliers, and the items are sorted and shipped to their respective destinations without being
placed into storage
Intermodal operations - correct answer Involves the use of more than one transportation mode
to move materials and products between suppliers and customers
, Material handling - correct answer Movement, storage, protection and control of materials
throughout the manufacturing and distribution process including their consumption and
disposal
automated guided vehicle system - correct answer Material handling system that uses
independently operated, self-propelled vehicles guided along defined pathways on the facility
floor
Office - correct answer Place where the business-oriented activities of an organization are
transacted and/or its services are rendered
Creative work - correct answer Intellectually more difficult and requires special skills and
knowledge that may take years of education and/or experience to acquire
facilities-based service - correct answer Requires the customer to be at the provider's facility for
the service to be rendered
knowledge workers - correct answer Office workers who accomplish the creative information-
processing activities and applications in offices
Office augmentation - correct answer The use of computer systems to enhance the abilities of a
worker in low-volume creative work, such as designing a product or writing a proposal
Cross-functional team - correct answer Team members are selected from a variety of
departments in the organization
Gantt chart - correct answer Graphical display of scheduled project activities on a time axis that
lists project activities on the vertical axis and shows their time durations as horizontal bars with
starting and ending date
Answers
Manning level in the context of manual assembly lines - correct answer The number of workers
assigned to a workstation
Utility workers - correct answer Workers who are assigned to the line but not to specific
workstations
Blocking - correct answer Operation has completed the assigned task on the current work unit
but cannot pass the unit to the downstream station because that worker is not yet ready to
receive it
Three line balancing algorithms - correct answer Largest candidate rule, kilbridge and wester,
ranked positional weights
Tolerance time - correct answer The amount of time a work unit spends inside the boundaries
of the workstation. It is the length of the station divided by the conveyor velocity
Pipelines - correct answer Transport of gasses, liquids, and slurries in large volumes
Cross-docking - correct answer Warehouse operation in which shipments are received from
suppliers, and the items are sorted and shipped to their respective destinations without being
placed into storage
Intermodal operations - correct answer Involves the use of more than one transportation mode
to move materials and products between suppliers and customers
, Material handling - correct answer Movement, storage, protection and control of materials
throughout the manufacturing and distribution process including their consumption and
disposal
automated guided vehicle system - correct answer Material handling system that uses
independently operated, self-propelled vehicles guided along defined pathways on the facility
floor
Office - correct answer Place where the business-oriented activities of an organization are
transacted and/or its services are rendered
Creative work - correct answer Intellectually more difficult and requires special skills and
knowledge that may take years of education and/or experience to acquire
facilities-based service - correct answer Requires the customer to be at the provider's facility for
the service to be rendered
knowledge workers - correct answer Office workers who accomplish the creative information-
processing activities and applications in offices
Office augmentation - correct answer The use of computer systems to enhance the abilities of a
worker in low-volume creative work, such as designing a product or writing a proposal
Cross-functional team - correct answer Team members are selected from a variety of
departments in the organization
Gantt chart - correct answer Graphical display of scheduled project activities on a time axis that
lists project activities on the vertical axis and shows their time durations as horizontal bars with
starting and ending date
