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Pacing in production processes refers to the fixed timing of the movement of items through the process.

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Blocking in production processes is when activities in a stage must continue because there is no place to deposit completed items.

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A bottleneck occurs when a stage in a production process is starving.

To reduce process flow time, you might try which of the following actions?

When a make-to-order production process is used, production is based on forecasts.

Run time is calculated by multiplying the number of units in a batch by the setup time.

Which of the following best describes the term "cycle time"?

Buffering in a production process refers to a storage area between stages of production activity where output of a stage is placed prior to being used in a "downstream" stage.

A rectangle is conventionally used in a process flowchart to represent a task or operation.

Utilization of a production process is the ratio of time that a resource is actually being used relative to the time it is available for use.

A process has three stages. Their capacities per hour are 45, 25, and 35 respectively. Due to its higher capacity, the first stage is the bottleneck.

A triangle is conventionally used in a process flowchart to represent a storage area or queue.

The operation time is the sum of the setup time, run time, and transfer time for a batch of parts that are run on a machine.

A job is said to be enlarged vertically if the worker performs a greater number or variety of tasks.

Consider a three sequentially stepped process named as Process A, Process B, and Process C. Input comes into Process A. Output from A goes into Process B. Output from B goes into Process C. Output of C is the final output. Suppose that it takes 2 minutes per unit in Process A, 3 minutes per unit in Process B and 1 minute per unit in Process C. Suppose further that Process A receives input at the rate of 30 per hour. Where would you place a buffer?

Make-to-order production processes are well suited for high-volume production of a standardized product.

A process flowchart uses which of the following symbols to represent tasks or operations in a flow diagram?

Inventory turn is a better measure than the total value of inventory for comparative purposes because it is a relative measure.

Efficiency of a production process is the ratio of the actual output of a process to some standard.

Benchmarking refers to the practice of comparing the production metrics of one firm with the production metrics of another.