Performance Check

Session 9: Advanced Scheduling

Name: Sayeed Asadullah Date: 04/04/2019 Score: ___________

1. Which of the following methods can be used to reduce manufacturing lead time?
a. Subcontracting
b. Forwarded scheduling
c. operation overlapping
d. finite loading
2. input/output control elements include all of the following EXCEPT:
a. planned purchases
b. planned input
c. planned output
d. planned queue
3. if the previous backlog is 20 units, the planned input is 25 units, and the planned output
is 30 units, the planned backlog will be:
a. 5 units
b. 10 units
c. 15 units
d. 20 units
4. Each of the following are strategies of bottleneck management EXCEPT:
a. Assure that only quality parts enter bottleneck work centers
b. Queues are controlled
c. Focus capacity and load management efforts on critical questions
d. Load bottlenecks indefinitely
5. Given the following information, with sequence will the orders be run in?
a. Order Critical Ratio
b. A 1.5
c. B 1.0
d. C 0.7
i. ABC
ii. BCA
iii. ACB
iv. CBA
6. Options available to reduce short-term order processing time include which of the
following?
a. Lot splitting
b. Use of temporary labor
c. Use of rented equipment
d. Change in work pace
Performance Check
Session 9: Advanced Scheduling
7. Which of the following scheduling activities must be done when planning the flow of
work?
a. Be sure the material and tooling needed are available
b. Advice the plant supervisor of future orders
c. Refer to the production plan for what orders to run
d. Complete a material requisition plan
e.
8. In a push system, authorization of order release is based on which of the following?
a. Current priority
b. Availability of material and tooling
c. Planned orders in the MRP output
d. All of the above
9. Within an MRP-push system, orders are released and pushed through production based
on which of the following?
a. Production schedule
b. Kanban
c. Capacity requirements
d. Material availability
10. Which of the following best describes a work center with actual output greater than
planned output?
a. Very good
b. Running ahead of schedule
c. Lacking capacity
d. Short of material