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A start-up is choosing a factory site and lining up raw material before any machine runs. It is at the stage of:Read the answer and worked solution →The plant is running and the manager now watches scrap rates, costs and the day's schedule. This stage is:Read the answer and worked solution →Long-term production planning covers a time frame of about:Read the answer and worked solution →Making many identical goods at once, as with the early Model-T, is:Read the answer and worked solution →Producing goods by mass techniques up to a point, then tailoring them to each buyer, is:Read the answer and worked solution →A firm that makes goods one at a time to each customer's wants is practising:Read the answer and worked solution →A manufacturing firm that produces goods in response to customer orders is called a:Read the answer and worked solution →Breaking bauxite down to extract aluminium is an example of:Read the answer and worked solution →Building an airplane by joining thousands of parts is an example of the:Read the answer and worked solution →A glass works runs its furnace for weeks without shutting down. This is a:Read the answer and worked solution →A workshop makes a batch of one item, resets its machines, then makes a batch of another. This is an:Read the answer and worked solution →Grouping all workers doing similar tasks in one area gives which layout?Read the answer and worked solution →Ships, airplanes and construction projects are usually built using a:Read the answer and worked solution →Deciding whether to make a part internally or buy it outside is the:Read the answer and worked solution →A store's screen shows stock, orders, sales and receipts updating as they happen. This record is a:Read the answer and worked solution →A firm wants its suppliers' and customers' data flowing into the same system as its own production data. It needs:Read the answer and worked solution →A supervisor pins up a bar chart on a time line comparing planned work with actual work. This chart is named after:Read the answer and worked solution →A project manager traces the longest chain of linked tasks in her plan, knowing a slip there delays everything. That chain is the:Read the answer and worked solution →The first person to argue that quality control should be led by top management was:Read the answer and worked solution →A quality programme aiming at no more than 3.4 defects per million is:Read the answer and worked solution →An assembly line takes delivery of parts only as the line calls for them, holding almost no stock. This is:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the operations toolsRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the production typesRead the answer and worked solution →Run the operations gatesRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the operations wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Mass or customRead the answer and worked solution →Sort layout, timing and qualityRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Operations bingoRead the answer and worked solution →

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A start-up is choosing a factory site and lining up raw material before any machine runs. It is at the stage of:

  1. Production audit
  2. Production planning
  3. Production control
  4. Production repair
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Correct answer: B. Production planning

1. This is the first decision managers face. 2. Site location and resources are settled here. 3. It is production planning. _Source: OpenStax Introduction to Business, Chapter 10, Achieving World-Class Operations Management._

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The plant is running and the manager now watches scrap rates, costs and the day's schedule. This stage is:

  1. Production control
  2. Production design
  3. Production launch
  4. Production audit
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Correct answer: A. Production control

1. Planning has already happened. 2. The factory is now running. 3. This is production control. _Source: OpenStax Introduction to Business, Chapter 10, Achieving World-Class Operations Management._

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Long-term production planning covers a time frame of about:

  1. Three to five hours
  2. Three to five years
  3. Three to five weeks
  4. Three to five days
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Correct answer: B. Three to five years

1. It settles which goods to produce and where. 2. Medium-term planning covers about two years. 3. Long-term planning runs three to five years. _Source: OpenStax Introduction to Business, Chapter 10, Achieving World-Class Operations Management._

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