1. The XYZ Manufacturing Company is an electronics offshored company. It designs, produces, and assembles desktop gadgets. The entire process is controlled by programmable robots, which are in turn linked to computers. These computers direct the robots to the appropriate task. In this context, XYZ uses a(n) to produce its goods.
a. partner relationship management system
b. enterprise resource planning system
c. employee experience management system
d. flexible manufacturing system
e. CAD/CAM integrated machining system
2. Which of the following enables engineers to design, analyze, test, simulate, and manufacture products before they physically exist?
a. Computer numerical control (CNC) machines
b. Computer-aided design/computer-aided engineering (CAD/CAE) systems
c. Computer-integrated manufacturing systems (CIMs)
d. Computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) systems
3. Based on class lecture, which of the following statements is true about enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems?
a. It is a business strategy designed to learn more about customers’ wants, needs, and behaviors.
b. It gives each function or department the ability to set up its own database.
c. Customer ordering and production scheduling are its real-time transaction processing systems.
d. It consists of a single module that overlies a specified database each functionally independent of the other modules associated with the database.
e. All of the above are true in terms of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems.