THEORY QUESTIONS CORRESPONDING TO THE SECOND MID TERM Each soccer ball produced in Sialkot was made up of 32 hand-sewn panels, while Chinese Jabulani have eight heat-sealed pieces. If we think about the 2016 official ball model, we know that it took more than three years of meticulous research and work to present the "+Teamgeist" model by Adidas. Thanks to a revolutionary 14-piece composition, players could show their true skills, since the quality and performance characteristics were identical, regardless of the peculiarities of each of the players who touched the ball.

6) (0.5 points) Among the following options, indicate the one that you consider correct in relation to the order in which the product design phases take place: A.-Feasibility study, generation of ideas, preliminary design and final design. B.-Preliminary design, generation of ideas, final design and feasibility study. C.-Generation of ideas, process planning, feasibility studies and design. D.- Generation of ideas, feasibility studies, preliminary design and final design. E.- Planning of the productive process, generation of design ideas, feasibility studies.

7) (0.5 points) For Adidas, the features that characterized this championship ball as a quality item were, therefore, being the roundest, most precise, and most consistent. For those responsible for operations, quality is defined as. A.- According to Crosby, the cost of non-conformities includes the costs of failures and those of the controls to detect them. B.-Although it cannot be defined, everyone knows what it is. C.-The totality of aspects and characteristics of a product or service that reinforce its capacity to satisfy explicit or implicit needs. D.- Goodness of fit of a product to the patterns of consumer preferences at a low cost E.- The degree of excellence at an acceptable price and the control of variability at an acceptable cost. With eight full heat-sealed pieces, the Jabulani offered clear technical superiorities in Adidas opinion over the 2006 model. Compare these eight pieces against the 32 hand-sewn panels in the Sialkot factories and we can think of the advantages and drawbacks of using the modular design. 8) (0.5 points) One of the following options is not an advantage of the modular design: A.-Ease of fault diagnosis and correction. B.-Flexibility to manufacture and sell C.-Easier to disassemble the product D.-Increases variety from standardized tasks E.-None of the above options is correct. 9) (0.5 points) Sialkot became a soccer ball sewing center when it was a British colony in the 1970s. At that time, European soccer ball manufacturers, including Adidas, moved their production to this city to avoid rising labor costs in Europe. Workers sewed the balls in dusty villages, surrounded by wheat crop making their first World Cup balls for the 1982 World Cup in Spain. What factors could have been most important to these European companies when they made their decisions regarding where to locate the new retail shops where the World Cup replica balls would be sold? A.-Climate. B.-Parking and accessibility. C.-Transportation costs. D.-Cost of raw materials. E.-Taxes.

10) (0.5 points) Adidas contracted local company Forward Group to make replicas of the Jabulani ball. This Pakistani company hoped to make about 6 million in 2010, 40% more than in 2009, but faced major challenges such as running its own electricity generators, bumpy roads, and the continuing threat of terrorism. In this context, international experts expressed serious doubts about the real possibilities of using the installed capacity. Utilization is defined as: A.-Efficiency. B.-The actual production. C.-The percentage of the capacity that can be used in reality. D.-The percentage of the design capacity that is actually achieved. E.-The capacity that a company expects to achieve given all its current operating restrictions