Deck 5: Capacity Management

Question 1

What variables affect capacity available in a production environment?

Answer 1

Capacity available is affected by product specifications, product mix, plant and equipment and work effort. Product specifications and product mix depend on the design of the product and the mix of products made.

Question 2

Over a 4- week period, a work center produced 540 standard hours of work, was available for work 640 hours, and actually worked 480 hours. Calculate the utilization and the efficiency fo the work center.

Answer 2

Utilization - 480/640 * 100% = 75% Efficiency = 540/480 * 100% = 112.5%

Question 3

What is back scheduling and what must be known for each order to schedule?

Answer 3

Back scheduling is a process that starts with the due date and using the lead times, works backward to find the start date for each operation. To schedule the following must be known: quantity and due date, sequence of operations and work centers needed, setup and run times for each operation, queue, wait, and move times, and the work center capacity available rated or demonstrated).

Question 4

What are the steps in calculating work center load?

Question 5

Product__________ depend on the design of the product and the mix of products made.

A) specification and mix
B) specification
C) work effort
D) mix

Question 6

A work center consisting of 7 machines is operated 16 hours a day for a 5- day week. Utilization is 80% and efficiency is 110%. What is the rated weekly capacity in standard hours?

Question 7

The__________ time is the time a job waits at a work center before being handled.

A) wait
B) lead
C) queue
D) move

Question 8

A work center produces 120 units in a shift. THe standard for that item is 100 units a shift. What is the efficiency of the work center?

A) 1.2%
B) 100%
C) 120%
D) 80%

Question 9

In 1 week, a work center produces 85 standard hours of work. The hours scheduled are 80. But 75 hours are actually worked. Calculate the utilization and efficiency of the work center.

Question 10

__________is responsible for determining the capacity needed to achieve the priority plans as well as providing, monitoring, and controlling that capacity so the priority plan can be met.

A) Capacity planning
B) Capacity required
C) Capacity management
D) Capacity control

Question 11

Capacity is a__________ of doing work, not the__________ of work done.

A) rate, standard
B) rate, quantity
C) standard, rate
D) quantity, rate

Question 12

A work center is to process 150 units of gear shaft SG 123 on work order 333. The setup time is 1.5 hours and the run time is 0.2 hours per piece. What is the standard time needed to run the order?

Question 13

What information should exist for every component in the routing file?

Question 14

A work center file contains information on:

A) capacity
B) wait and queue time
C) move times
D) all of the above

Question 15

Over the previous 4 weeks, a work center produced 120, 130, 150, and 140 standard hours of work. What is the demonstrated capacity of the work center in standard hours?

A) 125
B) 135
C) 155
D) 145

Question 16

__________is the process of determining the resources required to meet the priority plan and the methods needed to make that capacity available.

A) Capacity management
B) Capacity control
C) Capacity planning
D) Capacity required

Question 17

__________is the capacity of a system or resource needed to product a desired output in a given time period.

A) Capacity management
B) Capacity required
C) Capacity planning
D) Capacity control

Question 18

Demonstrated capacity is figured from:

A) utilization
B) historical data
C) efficiency
D) available time

Question 19

A work center consists of 4 machines, each working a 16- hour day for 5 days a week. What is the weekly time available?

Question 20

What are the inputs needed for a CRP and how can it be obtained?

Question 21

The time needed for each order is the sum of the setup time and the queue time.

Question 22

Capacity available is the capacity of a system or resource to produce a quantity of output in a given time period.

Question 23

It is possible for a work center to utilize 100 hours a week but not produce 100 standard hours of work.

Question 24

A work center is composed of a number of machines or workers capable of doing a variety of different jobs.

Question 25

Most orders are processed in only one work center.

Question 26

Capacity requirements planning occurs at the material requirements planning level.

Question 27

Rated or calculated capacity is the number of hours a work center can be used.

Question 28

An open shop order appears as a scheduled receipt on the material requirements plan.

Question 29

Determining the capacity required begins with determining the time needed for each order at each work center then summing up the capacity required for individual orders to obtain the load.

Question 30

The result of capacity requirements planning should be a detailed workable plan that meets the priority objectives and provides the capacity to do so.