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Chapter 36 PROCESS PLANNING AND PRODUCTION CONTROL
Multiple Choice Quiz
There are 47 correct answers in this multiple choice quiz (some questions have multiple answers
that are correct). To achieve a perfect score on the quiz, all correct answers must be given. Each
correct answer is worth 1 point. Each omitted answer or wrong answer reduces the score by 1
point. Percentage score on the quiz is based on the total number of correct answers.
36.1
The manufacturing support systems are the procedures and systems used by a company to
solve the technical and logistics problems encountered in planning the processes,
ordering materials, controlling production, and ensuring that the company’s products
meet required quality specifications: (a) true or (b) false?
36.2
The manufacturing engineering department in an organization is best described as which
one of the following: (a) branch of the sales department, (b) concurrent engineers, (c)
management, (d) product designers, (e) production supervisors, or (f) technical staff
function?
36.3
Which of the following are the usual responsibilities of the manufacturing engineering
department (four best answers): (a) advising on design for manufacturability, (b) facilities
planning, (c) marketing the product, (d) plant management, (e) process improvement, (f)
process planning, (g) product design, (h) solving technical problems in the production
departments, and (i) supervision of production workers?
36.4
In the sequence of manufacturing processes used to produce a part, a basic process
establishes the final geometry of the part, whereas secondary processes are used to enhance
properties and provide coatings (e.g., painting or plating) on the part surface: (a) true or (b)
false?
36.5
Which of the following are considered basic processes, as opposed to secondary processes
(four correct answers): (a) annealing, (b) anodizing, (c) drilling, (d) electroplating, (e)
forward hot extrusion to produce aluminum bar stock, (f) impression die forging, (g) rolling
of sheet steel, (h) sand casting, (i) sheet-metal stamping, (j) spot welding, (k) surface
grinding of hardened steel, (l) tempering of martensitic steel, and (m) turning?
36.6
Which of the following would be considered secondary processes, as opposed to basic
processes (four correct answers): (a) annealing, (b) arc welding, (c) drilling, (d)
electroplating, (e) extrusion to produce steel automotive components, (f) impression die
forging, (g) painting, (h) plastic injection molding, (i) rolling of sheet steel, (j) sand casting,
(k) sheet-metal stamping, (l) sintering of pressed ceramic powders, and (m) ultrasonic
machining?
36.7
Which of the following are operations to enhance physical properties (three correct
answers): (a) annealing, (b) anodizing, (c) die casting, (d) drilling, (e) electroplating, (f)
rolling of nickel alloys, (g) sheet metal drawing, (h) sintering of pressed ceramic powders,
(i) surface grinding of hardened steel, (j) tempering of martensitic steel, (k) turning, and (l)
ultrasonic cleaning?
36.8
A route sheet is a document whose principal function is which one of the following: (a)
continuous improvement, (b) design for manufacturability, (c) provides authorization for
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material handlers to move the part, (d) quality inspection procedure, (e) specifies the
process plan, or (f) specifies the detailed method for a given operation?
36.9
In a make or buy situation, the decision should always be to purchase the component if the
vendor’s quoted price is less than the in-house estimated cost of the component: (a) true or
(b) false?
36.10 Which one of the following types of computer-aided process planning relies on parts
classification and coding in group technology: (a) generative CAPP, (b) retrieval CAPP, (c)
traditional process planning, or (d) none of the preceding?
36.11 Concurrent engineering refers to an approach to product design in which companies
attempt to increase the elapsed time to bring a new product to market by integrating
design engineering, manufacturing engineering, and other functions in the company: (a)
true or (b) false?
36.12 Which one of the following terms best describes the overall function of production
planning and control: (a) inventory control, (b) manufacturing logistics, (c) manufacturing
engineering, (d) mass production, or (e) product design?
36.13 Which of the following are the three categories of items usually listed in the master
production schedule: (a) components used to build the final products, (b) firm customer
orders, (c) general product lines, (d) orders for maintenance and spare parts, (e) sales
forecasts, and (f) spare tires?
36.14 Material requirements planning (MRP) is a computational procedure used to convert the
detailed schedule for raw materials and components used in end products into the master
production schedule for end products: (a) true or (b) false?
36.15 With which of the following manufacturing resources is capacity requirements planning
primarily concerned (two best answers): (a) component parts, (b) direct labor, (c) inventory
storage space, (d) production equipment, and (e) raw materials?
36.16 Plant capacity adjustments that can be made in the short term include which of the
following (three best answers): (a) buying out a competing company, (b) increasing or
decreasing the number of hours per shift, (c) increasing or decreasing the number of shifts
per week, (d) increasing or decreasing the number of workers, (e) purchasing new
equipment, and (f) opening a new plant?
36.17 The three modules in shop floor control are which of the following (three best answers): (a)
capacity planning, (b) master production scheduling, (c) material requirements planning,
(d) order planning, (e) order progress, (f) order release, (g) order scheduling, and (h)
shipping?
36.18 Machine loading refers most closely to which one of the following: (a) assigning jobs to a
work center, (b) floor foundation in the factory, (c) managing work-in-process in the
factory, (d) releasing orders to the shop, or (e) sequencing jobs through a machine?
36.19 Small batch sizes are made economically feasible by increasing the setup time for each
batch: (a) true or (b) false?
36.20 In comparing a just-in-time system with material requirements planning, JIT is a push
system of production control, whereas MRP is a pull system: (a) true or (b) false?
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36.21 The word kanban is most closely associated with which one of the following: (a) capacity
planning, (b) just-in-time production, (c) master production schedule, or (d) material
requirements planning?
36.22 Autonomation refers to the design of production machines that operate autonomously so
long as they function the way they are supposed to, but if and when they do not operate
that way, they are designed to stop: (a) true or (b) false?
36.23 In lean production, which of the following are principles and objectives most closely
associated with autonomation (three best answers): (a) continuous improvement, (b) error
prevention, (c) just-in-time, (d) stop the process, (e) total productive maintenance, (f) visual
management, and (g) worker involvement?
36.24 Of the following types of maintenance, which one should be avoided whenever possible:
(a) emergency maintenance, (b) predictive maintenance, or (c) preventive maintenance?
36.25 In lean production, which of the following are principles and objectives most closely
associated with worker involvement (three best answers): (a) continuous improvement, (b)
error prevention, (c) just-in-time, (d) standard work procedures, (e) total productive
maintenance, and (f) visual management?
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