Execution and Control of Operations (CPIM-ECO) Practice Test

Questions # 21:

Which of the following basic layout principles should be applied to improve work flow?

Options:

Sequencing layouts for families of parts

Locating supermarkets near U-cells

Reducing number of machine tools

Increasing vertical part movement

Questions # 22:

A work center has a balance between the scheduled input and output over the next 4 weeks. One of the three machines in the work center will be out of service for 1 week. Currently, three operators work the first shift, one operator works the second shift, and each has a 40-hour work week. Which of the following actions is best to take to maintain the schedule?

Options:

Move an operator from the first to the second shift.

Schedule 40 hours of overtime.

Subcontract 40 hours of work.

Adjust the input.

Questions # 23:

A company has successfully completed improvement projects in several business units. Which of the following breakthroughs would be achieved when the improvements are embedded into the entire organization?

Options:

Continuous improvement

Culture change

Market share growth

Employee engagement

Questions # 24:

Which of the following outcomes are objectives of statistical process control?

Options:

To reduce product returns

To stabilize a process

To verify a DMAIC project

To identify control limits

Questions # 25:

Which of the following costing methods shows the greatest apparent profit in a time of inflation?

Options:

Last in, first out

First in, first out

Standard cost

Actual cost

Questions # 26:

Operation-to-operation quantity reporting is most important to which of the following production environments?

Options:

Job-lot production

Process production

Repetitive manufacturing

Continuous manufacturing

Questions # 27:

If actual demand is consistently slightly lower than planned demand, which of the following outcomes most likely will occur when a firm produces to stock using a functional layout?

Options:

Production efficiency will decrease.

Customer service will decrease.

Backlog will increase.

Quality levels will increase.

Questions # 28:

The primary value of a process map is to show:

Options:

product routings between work centers.

plant layout.

material and operator movements.

material and information flow.

Questions # 29:

Which of the following methods is used to control variation to improve product quality?

Options:

Short-cycle manufacturing

Cycle counting

Buffering inventory

Design for manufacturability

Questions # 30:

Which of the following terms describes a management technique used to evaluate planned changes to production processes?

Options:

Analysis of variance

Theory of constraints

Design of experiments

Design for manufacturability

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