1. The firms two best selling products sell at the following profit margin: $20 for product 1 and $40 for product 2. The marketing department recommends that at least 100 of each type of product be produced per day. Product 1 requires 5 labor-hours in the fabrication department and 2 labor-hour in the assembly department. Product 2 requires 5 labor-hours in the fabrication department and 3 labor-hours in the assembly department. There are currently 150 workers in the fabrication department and 75 workers in the assembly department each shift. There are three 8-hour shifts per day (overtime is not permitted).
Formulate this information as a profit-maximizing linear programming problem with the following decision variables:
X1 = the number of units of product 1 produced
X2 = the number of units of product 2 produced
The assembly constraint should be expressed as:
a. X1 + X2 75
b. X1 + X2 1800
c. 2X1 + 3X2 75
d. 2X1 + 3X2 1800
e. 3X1 + 2X2 1800
2. The type of waste present in a production system is that associated with the unevenness of the processes is known as:
a. JIT.
b. mura.
c. muda.
d. muri.
e. kaizen.
3. Which type of manufacturing technology is used to assist in tracking information related to the manufacturing process?
a. processing technologies
b. design technologies
c. product technologies
d. administrative technologies
e. manufacturing technologies
4. Which type of international production facility's primary role is to collect information?
a. offshore factory
b. source factory
c. server factory
d. contributor factory
e. outpost factory
5. DMAIC stands for
a. Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control
b. Dog, Mail, Analyze, Insurance, Copy
c. Nothing
d. Define, Measure, Analyze, Intern, Control
e. Define, Measure, Analyyze, Improve, Cost