Deck 35: Integrated Manufacturing Systems

Question 1

Material handling is usually associated with activities that occur inside a facility and not with transportation between facilities involving rail, truck, air, or waterway delivery of goods:

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Fixed routing is associated with which of the following types of manufacturing systems (two best answers):

A)automated production lines
B)automated storage systems
C)cellular manufacturing systems
D)flexible manufacturing systems
E)job shops
F)manual assembly lines

Answer 2

automated production lines
manual assembly lines

Question 3

Which of the following types of material handling equipment are typically used in a process type plant layout (two best answers):

A)conveyors
B)cranes and hoists
C)fork lift trucks
D)rail-guided vehicles

Answer 3

cranes and hoists
fork lift trucks

Question 4

Of the mechanized methods of work transport used on production lines, a synchronous transfer system consists of a continuously moving conveyor that operates at a constant velocity:

Question 5

Batch model production lines are most suited to which one of the following production situations:

A)job shop
B)mass production
C)medium production

Question 6

A mixed model line is a production line in which different models are intermixed on the same line, so that while one model is being processed at one station, a different model is being processed at the next station:

Question 7

Repositioning time is best defined by which one of the following:

A)lost time each cycle on a mixed model line due to differences between models
B)lost time each cycle to reposition the worker the work unit or both
C)time between batches in a batch model line
D)time to relocate workstations on a batch model line to prepare for the next product

Question 8

Precedence constraints are best described by which one of the following:

A)launching sequence in a mixed model line
B)limiting value of the sum of element times that can be assigned to a worker or station
C)order of workstations along the line
D)sequence in which the work elements must be done

Question 9

Which of the following are most appropriate to describe the characteristics of tasks that are performed at automated workstations on a production line (three best answers):

A)complex
B)consists of multiple work elements
C)involves a single work element
D)involves straight line motions
E)requires sensory capability
F)simple

Question 10

The transfer line is most closely associated with which one of the following types of production operations:

A)assembly
B)automotive chassis fabrication
C)machining
D)pressworking
E)spot welding

Question 11

A dial indexing machine uses which one of the following types of workpart transfer:

A)asynchronous
B)continuous
C)parts passed by hand
D)synchronous

Question 12

Production flow analysis is a method of identifying part families that uses data from which one of the following sources:

A)bill of materials
B)engineering drawings
C)master schedule
D)production schedule
E)route sheets

Question 13

Most parts classification and coding systems are based on which of the following types of part attributes (two best answers):

A)annual production rate
B)date of design
C)design
D)manufacturing
E)weight

Question 14

What is the dividing line between a manufacturing cell and a flexible manufacturing system (one best answer):

A)two machines
B)four machines
C)six machines

Question 15

A machine capable of producing different part styles in a batch mode of operation qualifies as a flexible manufacturing system:

Question 16

The physical layout of a flexible manufacturing system is determined principally by which one of the following:

A)computer system
B)material handling system
C)part family
D)processing equipment
E)weight of parts processed

Question 17

In general, industrial robots can most easily handle which one of the following part types in a flexible machining system:

A)heavy parts
B)metal parts
C)nonrotational parts
D)plastic parts
E)rotational parts

Question 18

Flexible manufacturing systems and cells are generally applied in which one of the following areas:

A)high-variety, low-volume production
B)low variety
C)low volume
D)mass production
E)medium-volume, medium-variety production

Question 19

Which one of the following technologies is most closely associated with flexible machining systems:

A)lasers
B)machine vision
C)manual assembly lines
D)numerical control
E)transfer lines