front 1 As the degree of customer contact increases, | back 1 more of the service package is provided by front-room operations. |
front 2 Which of the following is the formula for calculating takt time? | back 2 available production time/required output rate |
front 3 The law of variability says that "the greater the random variability either demanded of the process or inherent in the process itself or the items processed, | back 3 the less productive the process is." |
front 4 A _______________ includes all the value-added physical and intangible activities that a service organization provides to customer. | back 4 service package |
front 5 Which of the following products involve customization only at the very end of the manufacturing process? | back 5 assemble-to-order (ATO) products |
front 6 _______________ are highly automated batch processes that can reduce the cost of making groups of similar products. | back 6 flexible manufacturing systems (FMSs) |
front 7 In _______________, resources are arranged sequentially according to the steps required to make a product. | back 7 a product-based layout |
front 8 The _______________ refers to the part of the service operation that is completed without direct customer contact. | back 8 back room |
front 9 Long before the restaurant opened, the pantry chef prepared a variety of cold dishes including salads, cold appetizers, and pâtés. That night you were escorted to your table and requested a chef salad to accompany your rack of lamb, seasonal vegetables, and black forest cake.A service blueprint would show the pantry chef's role in this as | back 9 a support process |
front 10 Equipment and people are highly specialized and arranged sequentially according to the steps required to make a product in a | back 10 functional layout |
front 11 Customers are naturally excited about make-to-stock, finish-to-order, make-to-order, and engineer-to-order. An operations and supply chain manager is far more interested in | back 11 the point in the supply chain at which the customization occurs |
front 12 "A type of manufacturing process used to produce a narrow range of standard items with identical or highly similar designs" is the definition of | back 12 production line |
front 13 Which of the following products use standard components, but the final configuration of those components is customer specific? | back 13 make-to-order (MTO) products |