Quiz: SCDL - Production Planning and Control (PPC)

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SCDL - Production Planning and Control (PPC) - Mai [May 2009]

The cost involved in subcontracting some of the operations of item outside the home plant is called :-

If efficiency is more, the manufacturing time required for completion of job would be generally :-

Find EOQ in Rs from the following data :-Annual consumption = 20, 000 units, Ordering and receiving cost of material = Rs 20 per order, Annual carrying cost or storage cost = 10% of unit cost of mater

A type items are always vital under VED analysis.

Physical Count method of collecting information from manufacturing shops is applicable in following situation :-

Overlapping of operations helps in compressing manufacturing time.

Labour efficiency factor is applied after capacity requirement of equipment is calculated.

LOB technique was devised by US army in the year :-

A company has 10 machines, working in two shifts. Utilization index is 0.75 and shop efficiency is 80%. Effective capacity hours for loading and scheduling are :-

Curve fitting method of statistical forecasting uses curve line approach.

The assignment method is also called as :-

As the quantity increases, the procurement cost :-

Short term forecasts are for ______.

If number of work stations is 8 and work content of all stations is 32 , the cycle time would be ______.

Detachable ticket, after filling in required information is :-

Transit time for manufactured items should be considered only when it is insignificant.

Development of additional vendors/suppliers depends upon :-

______ is a production line made up of operations that form or change the physical or sometimes chemical characteristics of a product.

Keeping available time per day constant, if the desired production rate per day is to be doubled ,cycle time will be reduced by :-

Purchase department must keep PPC informed regarding lead time of different items specially where lead times are extended.

Lead time is ______ for different items.

Production Planning and Control makes the supervisor ineffective.

The sourcing of vendors in case of 'B' type of items is :-

Production Planning and Control department acts as a link between company's sales and ______ department.

If more variety is to be manufactured, the manufacturing facilities would have to be :-

There are five manufacturing systems. However, many manufacturers combines two or more systems to produce a final product.

Order quantity

Process plan is the process of establishing the ______ and most economical path that each part is to follow from raw material stage to finished product stage.

The administrative lead time e.g. time involved in processing the order, which may be in periodical review system including the period until next review is called ______ lead time.

Because of uncertainty of activity timings, PERT acquired a shape of ______ model.

Of all the work measurement techniques the most widely used techniques is________.

XYZ analysis helps to identify few items which account for large amount of money locked up in the stock and take steps for liquidation / reduction.

Orders with ______ slack time remaining per operation are run first.

Work sampling is ______

Keeping procurement cost and carrying cost constant, if annual usage of certain product becomes 4 times, the EOQ would be :-

Exponential smoothening is weighted average method.

C type items would never be vital under VED analysis.

Effective capacity per period is calculated as :-

Ordering of raw material is based on :-

The assembly work content [ Wi ] of the i'th station having n work stations is given by :-

A company where different personnel give conflicting delivery promises need to improve its scheduling and processing function.

The LOB technique is made more accurate and fast by using ______.

The LOB technique is most appropriate for assembly operations involving number of distinct components.

Sequencing helps management to determine the most economical job sequence the one that consumes minimum :-

Machine capacity chart

Only satisfied customers get in ______ from new customers.

______ analysis mainly helps to identify non-existing items for which store keeps bin cards, wastes computer memory or wastes computer stationary while preparing stores ledger.

Line staff can assist PPC by manufacturing some of their needs in their own shops rather than making PPC to tool room or purchase.

LOB is a manual planning and scheduling technique similar in nature to MRP [Material Resource Planning].

Long termed forecasts are for the period of :-

When shop floor scheduling problem larger than 3 machines arise the analytical solution procedures leading to optimality are complex and difficult.

Standard elemental time data

Negative value of critical ratio :-

Scheduling can be considered as a process of :-

______ is the sum of set up time and run time.

LOB has advantage that it is more ______ oriented than MRP.

In alternate routing, the delayed job may be routed to a ______ machine where rate of production is faster.

Labour efficiency depends upon ______

As per a study on materials management practices, a typical firm spends almost half of its rupee sales on goods purchased from vendors.

In CPM, use of dummy activities is much essential .

In ABC analysis, the classification is based on :-

Let us suppose that activity M & N can not start until activity K & L are completed. Activities K &L are therefore :-

Random fluctuation is addition of cyclical fluctuation and seasonal fluctuation.

Mass & flow production and process production are categorized under :-

The earliest start time of an activity equals to earliest event time of :-

Classification of items on basis of their capital lock up is called ______ analysis.

______ are grouped so that their total time is preferably equal to or little lesser than the time available each work station.

On completion of work the job card is returned to production planning and control department for reference and record.

Increase in inventory carrying cost increases EOQ.

In replenishment system, the type of ordering is either according to "stock level" or "pre-fixed time scale".

In order to complete a project on time, each critical activity need not be completed in time.

Job production requires ______ capital investment.

________items should be excluded from ABC Analysis.

To keep facilities busy, waiting time due to non-availability of work should be kept at :-

To solve "n jobs - 3 machines" sequencing problem, the largest of time of any job on the second machine must be smaller than or equal to the smallest time of any job on first machine or third machine.