1.Three inputs to the MRP process are:

A) Production activity control, purchasing, and the production plan.

B) Inventory status, the master production schedule, and the product structure.

C) Production activity control, purchasing, and the production plan.

D) Inventory status, the master production schedule, and the product structure.

E) the product structure, production activity control, and the master production schedule.

2.The objective(s) of material requirements planning is (are) to:

A) keep priorities current.

B) Determine requirements.

C) issue orders to purchasing and manufacturing.

D) all of the above

E) B and C above

3.Which of the following is an element in an MRP system? A) the computer

B) inventory records

C) bills of material

D) all of the above

E) none of the above

4.A set of priority planning techniques for planning component items below the end item level is called:

A) master scheduling.

B) material requirements planning.

C) capacity planning

D) production control

E) none of the above

5.A major input to an MRP system is:

A) the production plan.

B) the capacity plan.

C) shop-floor activity planning and control.

D) the master schedule

E) none of the above

6.The document that shows the component parts and the number of parts needed to make one of an assembly or subassembly is called:

A) a route sheet.

B) a material requirements plan.

C) a bill of material

D) a material requisition

E) none of the above

7.A product tree shows:

A.) The sub-assemblies used in making inventory

B.) The sequence in which parts go together

C.) The parts that don't go into making a product

D.) all of the above

E.) none of the above

8.Which of the following statements is best?

A.) The same part on different bills of material will have a different part number.

B.) A part has one and only one-part number.

C.) a part number identifies one part only

D.)All of the above are true.

E.)None of the above is true

9. A multi-level bill of material:

I. Reflects the way the product will be manufactured.

II. Is produced by the purchasing department.

III. is a parts list only and does not contain subassemblies.

A) Only I is true

B) only II is true

C) only III is true

D) I and II are true

E) I, II and III are true

10. Service parts experience which of the following types of demand?

A) Independent

B) Dependent

C) Independent and Dependent

D) None of the above

11. Which of the following statements is true?

A) A where-used report is the same as a pegging report.

B) A pegging report shows all the parents for a component.

C) A where-used report shows all the components that go into assembly.

D) A where-used report shows only those parents for which there is an existing requirement.

E) Pegging reports show only the parents for which there are requirements.

12. The ability to relate the demand for an item shown on an MRP record back to the particular

parent causing the demand is called:

A) where-used.

B relating.

C) pegging

D) any one of the above

E) none of the above

13. Which statement is correct?

A) Scheduled receipts show when goods were put into inventory.

B) When an order is released, it becomes a planned order.

C) Planned order releases show when the order is needed.

D) All of the above are correct.

E) None of the above is correct.

14. Which statement is correct?

A) A part has one and only one part number.

B) Net requirements = gross requirements - on-hand inventory - scheduled receipts.

C) A product tree shows the parts that go into making a product.

D) All of the above are correct.

E) None of the above is correct

15. In material requirements planning the process of placing the exploded requirements in the

proper time periods, based on the assembly lead times involved, is known as:

A) Exploding.

B) Offsetting

C) Netting.

D) All of the above

E) none of the above

16. Which statement is true?

A The planned order release of the parent generates the gross requirement of the component.

B) The planned order release of the component becomes the net requirement of the component.

C) The planned order release of the component becomes the order receipt of the parent

D) All of the above are true.

E) None of the above is true.

17. Which of the following statements is true about released orders?

A) A scheduled receipt is a released order.

B) An open order is a released order.

C) A planned order release is a not a released order.

D) All of the above are true.

E) None of the above is true.

18. Which of the following is NOT true of an MRP record?

A) The current time is the beginning of the first period

B) The number of periods in the record is called the planning horizon

C) An item is considered to be available at the end of the time bucket in which it is required..

D) The projected on-hand balance is for the end of the period.

E) The immediate or most current period is called the action bucket.

19. The document that shows the component parts and the number of parts needed to make one o

an assembly or subassembly is called:

A.A route sheet

B.A material requirements plan.

C.A material requisition

D.A bill of material.

E.None of the above

20. Which of the following statements is true? A. Every item has more than one low-level code.

B. Net requirements = gross requirements + on-hand + scheduled receipts.

C. Each part has at least one part number, depending on where it is used.

D. All of the above are true.

E) None of the above is true.

21. __________ is responsible for determining the capacity required and methods of making the capacity available.

a.

Production planning

b. Master production scheduling

c.

Production activity control

d.

Capacity planning

e.

Material requirements planning

22. available capacity in production planning is:

the amount of inventory that can be held in a warehouse.

the quantity of work that can be performed in a given period of time.

a measure of the ability of a plant to consume raw materials.

all of the above

none of the above

23. ________ are generated by the priority planning system and involve the translation of the priorities, generally given in units of product or some common unit, into hours of work required at each work center in each time period.

a

Capacity requirements

b

Capacity bills

c

Work center reports

d

all of the above

e

none of the above

24. A work center consists of 2 machines working 8 hours a day and 5 days a week. Historically, utilization has been 80% and the efficiency 90%. The effective capacity, to the nearest hour, would be:

a.

80 hours

b.

40 hours

c.

30 hours

d.

50 hours

e.

58 hours

25. The available capacity will be influenced by:

I. Product specification.

II. Product mix.

III. Work effort.

IV. Units of measurement.

a.I, II, and III only

b.I, II, and IV only

c.II, III, and IV only

d.III only

e.IV only

26. The percentage of the time the work center is active compared to the available time is called:

a.efficiency.

b.effectiveness.

c.utilization.

d.Murphy's factor.

e.up-time.

27. In one week, a work center produced 130 standard hours of work. The actual hours worked was 114. The efficiency is:

a.80.8%

b.87.7%

c.92.3%

d.114.0%

28. In one week, a work center produces 130 standard hours of work. The hours scheduled are 120, and 105 hours are actually worked. The utilization is:

a.80.8%

b.87.5%

c.92.3%

d.108.3%

e.123.8%

29. In the short run, capacity can be altered by any of the following EXCEPT:

a.scheduling overtime.

b.selecting alternate routings.

c.reallocating the work force.

d.purchasing new equipment.

e.subcontracting out.

30. A report that shows the future capacity requirements based on released and planned orders for each time period of the plan is called:

a.report card

b.capacity report.

c.order report.

d.dispatch list.

e.none of the above

31. Which of the following is NOT an input needed in capacity requirements planning?

a.open shop orders

b.planned order releases

c.routings

d.time standards

e.rough-cut capacity

32. (Available time) X (utilization) X (efficiency) is called:

a.effectiveness.

b.useful capacity.

c.demonstrated capacity.

d.rated capacity.

e.work time.

33. Over the previous three weeks, a work center produced 36, 43, and 35 standard hours of work. What is the measured capacity?

a.114 standard hours

b.36 standard hours

c.38 standard hours

d.43 standard hours

e.This cannot be determined with this data.

34. One hundred units of part A are to be processed on a work center. The setup time is 2 hours, and the run time per piece is 10 minutes. The total standard time will be:

a.2 hours, 10 minutes.

b.3 hours, 40 minutes.

c.10 minutes.

d.1,000 minutes.

e.1,120 minutes.

35. Which of the following is (are) the best statement(s)?

a.Open shop orders appear as scheduled receipts in the MRP.

b.Information on queue and wait time can be obtained from the work center file.

c.The Gregorian calendar is suitable for production planning.

d.a and b are true

e.b and c are true

36. Planning the flow of work requires production activity control to:

I. be sure the material needed is available.

II. be sure the tooling needed is available.

III. Schedule the start and stop dates at each work center.

IV. Advise the plant supervisor of future orders.

A) I, II, III and IV

B) I, II and IV

C) II, III and IV

D) I, III and IV

E) I, II and III

37. The activities of production activity control can be classified as:

I. planning.

II. Implementation.

III. Control.

IV. Process control.

A) I, II and IV

B) I, II and III

C) I, III and IV

D) II, III and IV

E) I, II, III and IV

38. Which of the following files are used by PAC for planning?

I. Shop order master file

II. Shop order detail file

III. Item master file

IV. Routing file

A) I and II only

B) II, III and IV only

C) II and III only

D) I and III only

39. Given the following information, which sequence will the orders be run in?

OrderCritical Ratio

A1.5

B0.7

C1.0

a.ABC

b.BCA

c.ACB

d.CBA

e.BAC

40. In a drum-buffer-rope scheduling system, the "drum" represents which of the following?

A. A drum of jobs to be selected

B. The master schedule for the operation

C. A safety stock of material

D. The constraint against too much being loaded into the master schedule

41.A scheduling system that assumes the required capacity will NOT always be available is called:

A. Forward scheduling

B. Backward scheduling

C. Infinite scheduling.

D. Finite scheduling.

42. An order for 100 of a product is processed on work center 123. The setup time is 60 minutes and the run time is 5 minutes per piece. If the order is run on two machines in the work center, and the setups are made simultaneously, the elapsed time will be:

A) 560 minutes.

B) 500 minutes.

C) 250 minutes.

D) 310 minutes

43. Operation overlapping means:

A) Locating work centers close together to reduce materials handling.

B) Using alternate routings.

C) Running two or more jobs at the same time on the same machine.

D) Moving work to the next operation as a batch is completed.

44. Which of the following are methods of reducing manufacturing lead time?

I.Subcontracting

II.Forward scheduling

III.Operation overlapping.

IV.Operation splitting.

a.All of the above

b.I and II

c.II and III.

d.III. And IV.

45. Which of the following statements is best?

A.using a non-bottleneck 100% of the time produces 100% utilization

B.time saved at a non-bottleneck saves nothing

C.the capacity of a system depends on the capacity of the bottleneck

D.a and b only are true

E.b and c only are true

46. Which file contains information on the efficiency and utilization of a work center?

A. Efficiency file

B. Utilization file

C. routing file

D work center master

E either a or b

47. Priority rule should be which of the following?

I. simple to use

II. clear to use so they can understand them

III. argued by the worker

IV. consistent with the objective of the planning system

a.all of the above

b.I, II and III

c.I, II and IV

d.II, III and IV

e.None of the above

48. The selection and sequencing of available jobs to be run at individual work stations and the assignment of these jobs to workers is called:

a.Dispatching

b.Scheduling

c.Priority management

d.Production control

49. Which of the following is NOT a principle of managing bottlenecks?

a.A time buffer should be established after each bottleneck

b.The rate of the material fed to a bottleneck should be controlled

c.Do anything to increase the capacity of a bottleneck

d.Use alternative routings

e.Change the schedule

50. Which of the following statement is best?

A. A bottleneck (capacity constrain resources) will control the throughput of the products processed by it

B. A time buffer should be established before a CCR

C.Work center feeding a CCR should work at full capacity

D.A and b are true

E.B and c are true