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Nearness to raw materials would be most important to a - Answers - ✔✔manufacturing
company
A self-service vending machine that duplicates house and car keys in store is an
example of a: - Answers - ✔✔micro-factory
Last step in the procedure for making location decision? - Answers - ✔✔evaluate
alternatives and make a selection
When a location evaluation includes both quantitative and qualitative inputs, a technique
that can be used is? - Answers - ✔✔Factor rating
The center of gravity method is used to ____ travel time, distance and costs - Answers -
✔✔minimize
Software systems knowns as GIS help in location analysis. The initials GIS stand for: -
Answers - ✔✔Geographical Information System
Facilities, personnel and operations that are located around the world are called? -
Answers - ✔✔globalization
Cultural difference, customer preferences, labor and resources are factors relating to: -
Answers - ✔✔foreign locations
The method for evaluating location alternatives which uses their total cost curves is: -
Answers - ✔✔cost-volume analysis
The method for evaluating alternatives which minimizes shipping cost between multiple
sending and receiving locations - Answers - ✔✔transportation model analysis
A tool that is not used for quality management - Answers - ✔✔redesign
A told that depicts process variation graphically is - Answers - ✔✔control chart
Which is NOT a cost of quality? - Answers - ✔✔Extended service contracts
Lost production time, scrap, and rework are examples of: - Answers - ✔✔internal
failure costs
, Loss of business, liability, productivity and costs are consequences of: - Answers -
✔✔poor quality
Quality planning and administration, quality training, and quality control procedures are
examples of: - Answers - ✔✔prevention costs
ISO 9000 standards do not have a requirement for - Answers - ✔✔training
A quality circle is - Answers - ✔✔a voluntary group of employees
Which of the following is an element of TQM? - Answers - ✔✔all od these are elements
of TQM
Which of the following raises quality risks? - Answers - ✔✔outsourcing to less-
developed countries
The process of identifying other organization that are best at some facet of your
operations, and then modeling your organization after them is known as: - Answers -
✔✔benchmarking
Which of the following is not a goal of process improvement? - Answers -
✔✔Identifying the cause of a problem
As regards quality risks, which of the following would be least likely to involve
outsourcing to less-developed countries? - Answers - ✔✔pharmaceuticals?
If customers satisfaction doesn't always lead to customer loyalty, firms may need to
focus additional effort on ____ strategies. - Answers - ✔✔retention
Before a dimension of quality can be made operationally useful, it must be restated in
some ___ form. - Answers - ✔✔measurable
A control Chart used to monitor the process mean is the: - Answers - ✔✔x-bar chart
Essentially, the output of aggregate planning is the: - Answers - ✔✔production plan
the purpose of control charts is to - Answers - ✔✔distinguish b/w random variation and
assignable variation in the process
____ variation is a variation whose cause can be identified - Answers - ✔✔assignable
Which of the following would not be a strategy associated with adjusting aggregate
capacity to meet expected demand? - Answers - ✔✔use backorders