Reference no: EM132227194
1. All of the following are examples of incentives to entice a facility to a given community or location except:
A. increasing governmental regulation
B. providing job training to potential employees
C. providing tax credits to the facility/company
D. providing cash incentives to the facility/company
2. All of the following are characteristics of an effective design process except:
A. matching product or service characteristics with customer requirements
B. increasing the design time for new products and services
C. minimizing the number of revisions needed to make the design workable
D. meeting customer requirements in the least costly manner
3. Carefully dismantling and inspecting a competitor’s product to look for design features that can be incorporated into your own product is known as:
A. cheating
B. concurrent design
C. reverse engineering
D. benchmarking
4. The ease with which resources can be adjusted in response to changes in demand, technology, products and services, and resource availability is known as:
A. vertical integration
B. capital intensity
C. customer involvement
D. process flexibility
5. Industries where manufacturing facilities run 24 hours a day and individual units of product cannot be differentiated (such as steel, paper, paints, chemicals, etc.) typically use:
A. projects
B. batch production systems
C. mass production systems
D. continuous production systems
6. Specialized labor is primarily used in:
A. projects
B. mass production
C. batch production
D. continuous production