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Multiple Choice
1. Which of the following is not a resource that might not be included in deciding a facility
layout?
a) desk
b) work center
c) telephone switch
d) work center
e) person
Ans: c
Section Ref: What is Layout Planning?
Level: moderate
2. Which of the following may not be a result of a poor layout?
a) wasted time
b) wasted energy
c) confusion
d) poor communication
d) increased flow of information
Ans: d
Section Ref: What is Layout Planning?
Level: easy
3. Intermittent operations are seen in organizations that produce:
a) a small variety of different products
b) high volumes of a few standard products
c) a large variety of different products
d) a large volume of many standardized products
e) assembly line manufacturing
Ans: c
Section Ref: What is Layout Planning?
Level: easy
4. Which of the following is not one of the four basic layout types?
a) inverted
b) hybrid
c) process
d) fixed position
e) product
Ans: a
Section Ref: Types of Layouts
Level: easy
5. The challenge in process layouts is to arrange resources to maximize _____ and minimize
____
a) movement, effectiveness
b) effectiveness, efficiency
c) efficiency, waste of movement
d) efficiency, effectiveness
e) efficiency, labor cost
Ans: c
Section Ref: Types of Layouts
Level: moderate
6. A company with a pure continuous processing system is most likely to use which layout
type?
a) inverted
b) hybrid
c) process
d) fixed position
e) product
Ans: e
Section Ref: Types of Layouts
Level: moderate
7. Process layouts have
a) less automation
b) more automation
c) fewer employees
d) more cycle time
e) less cycle time
Ans: a
Section Ref: Types of Layouts
Level: easy
8. A job shop is most likely to use which layout type?
a) inverted
b) hybrid
c) process
d) fixed position
e) product
Ans: c
Section Ref: Types of Layouts
Level: moderate
9. A hospital is an example of which layout type?
a) inverted
b) hybrid
c) process
d) fixed position
e) product
Ans: c
Section Ref: Types of Layouts
Level: moderate
10. A grocery store is most like which of the following layout types?
a) inverted
b) circular
c) process
d) fixed position
e) product
Ans: c
Section Ref: Types of Layouts
Level: moderate
11. A university is an example of which layout type?
a) inverted
b) hybrid
c) process
d) fixed position
e) product
Ans: c
Section Ref: Types of Layouts
Level: moderate
12. Which of the following is least like a process layout?
a) job shop
b) automobile plant
c) hospital
d) university
e) grocery store
Ans: b
Section Ref: Types of Layouts
Level: moderate
13. Which of the following is more like a product layout as compared to a process layout?
a) Resources used are general purpose.
b) Facilities are less capital intensive.
c) Processing rates are slower.
d) Space requirements for inventory storage are lower.
e) Scheduling resources is more challenging.
Ans: d
Section Ref: Types of Layouts
Level: moderate
14. Which of the following is more like a product layout as compared to a process layout?
a) Resources used are specialized.
b) Facilities are less capital intensive.
c) Processing rates are slower.
d) Space requirements for inventory storage are higher.
e) Scheduling resources is more challenging.
Ans: a
Section Ref: Types of Layouts
Level: moderate
15. Which of the following is more like a product layout as compared to a process layout?
a) Resources used are general purpose.
b) Facilities are more capital intensive.
c) Processing rates are slower.
d) Space requirements for inventory storage are higher.
e) Scheduling resources is more challenging.
Ans: b
Section Ref: Types of Layouts
Level: moderate
16. Which of the following is more like a product layout as compared to a process layout?
a) Resources used are general purpose.
b) Facilities are less capital intensive.
c) Processing rates are faster.
d) Space requirements for inventory storage are higher.
e) Scheduling resources is more challenging.
Ans: c
Section Ref: Types of Layouts
Level: moderate
17. Which of the following is more like a product layout as compared to a process layout?
a) Resources used are general purpose.
b) Facilities are less capital intensive.
c) Processing rates are slower.
d) Space requirements for inventory storage are higher.
e) Scheduling resources is less challenging.
Ans: e
Section Ref: Types of Layouts
Level: moderate
18. Which of the following is more like a product layout as compared to a process layout?
a) Resources used are general purpose.
b) Facilities are less capital intensive.
c) Material handling costs are lower.
d) Space requirements for inventory storage are higher.
e) Scheduling resources is less challenging.
Ans: c
Section Ref: Types of Layouts
Level: moderate
19. Which of the following is more like a product layout as compared to a process layout?
a) Resources used are general purpose.
b) Facilities are less capital intensive.
c) Less skilled workers can be used.
d) Space requirements for inventory storage are higher.
e) Scheduling resources is less challenging.
Ans: c
Section Ref: Types of Layouts
Level: moderate
20. Which of the following is more like a product layout as compared to a process layout?
a) Resources used are general purpose.
b) Facilities are less capital intensive.
c) Products cannot be easily added or deleted from the existing product line.
d) Space requirements for inventory storage are higher.
e) Scheduling resources is less challenging.
Ans: c
Section Ref: Types of Layouts
Level: moderate
21. A company with a pure intermittent processing system is most likely to use which
layout type?
a) inverted
b) hybrid
c) process
d) fixed position
e) product
Ans: c
Section Ref: Types of Layouts
Level: moderate
22. A single-line cafeteria is an example of which layout type?
a) inverted
b) disjointed
c) process
d) fixed position
e) product
Ans: e
Section Ref: Types of Layouts
Level: moderate
23. A car wash is an example of which layout type?
a) inverted
b) hybrid
c) process
d) fixed position
e) product
Ans: e
Section Ref: Types of Layouts
Level: moderate
24. A high-volume paper mill is an example of which layout type?
a) inverted
b) circular
c) process
d) fixed position
e) product
Ans: e
Section Ref: Types of Layouts
Level: moderate
25. Which of the following is least like a product layout?
a) high-volume paper mill
b) automobile plant
c) hospital
d) single-line cafeteria
e) car wash
Ans: c
Section Ref: Types of Layouts
Level: moderate
26. In a product layout facility the manager must decide
a) employees salary
b) exactly what tasks will not be performed by every workstation
c) exactly what tasks will be performed by every workstation
d) exactly what vacation schedule must be followed
e) general sequence the work must be performed in
Ans: d
Section Ref: Types of Layouts
Level: easy
27. Which company is widely considered to be the leader of just-in-time production?
a) Ford
b) Timex
c) Gateway
d) Toyota
e) Sony
Ans: d
Section Ref: Designing Process Layouts
Level: moderate
28. A hybrid layout combines
a) fixed and product
b) fixed and process
c) inverted and product
d) services and manufacturing
e) process and product
Ans: e
Section Ref: Designing Process Layouts
Level: moderate
29. A wheat farm is an example of which layout type?
a) inverted
b) hybrid
c) process
d) fixed position
e) product
Ans: d
Section Ref: Designing Process Layouts
Level: moderate
30. Shipbuilding is an example of which layout type?
a) inverted
b) hybrid
c) process
d) fixed position
e) product
Ans: d
Section Ref: Designing Process Layouts
Level: moderate
31. Building construction is an example of which layout type?
a) inverted
b) hybrid
c) process
d) fixed position
e) product
Ans: d
Section Ref: Designing Process Layouts
Level: moderate
32. Bridge construction is an example of which layout type?
a) inverted
b) hybrid
c) process
d) fixed position
e) product
Ans: d
Section Ref: Designing Process Layouts
Level: moderate
33. Which of the following is least like a fixed-position layout?
a) farm
b) shipbuilding
c) bridge construction
d) building construction
e) car wash
Ans: e
Section Ref: Designing Process Layouts
Level: moderate
34. The first step in designing a layout is
a) identifying the facility
b) gathering information
c) selecting the correct layout software package
d) developing a REL chart
e) developing a from-to matrix
Ans: b
Section Ref: Designing Process Layouts
Level: moderate
35. What are the two primary tools used to identify closeness measures during the layout
design process?
a) REL chart and from-to matrix
b) MRP chart and from-to matrix
c) x-bar chart and from-to matrix
d) MRP chart and x-bar chart
e) x-bar chart and REL chart
Ans: a
Section Ref: Designing Process Layouts
Level: easy
36. According to the text, the available space of a facility is best seen by using a
a) photograph
b) detailed floor plan
c) architecture software package
d) block plan
e) overview plan
Ans: d
Section Ref: Designing Process Layouts
Level: moderate
37. Which layout design tool is primarily based on managers opinions?
a) x-bar chart
b) REL chart
c) MRP chart
d) from-to matrix
e) Gantt chart
Ans: b
Section Ref: Designing Process Layouts
Level: easy
38. What is typically used to quantitatively compare the effectiveness of layouts?
a) trial and error
b) process control charts
c) load-distance model
d) mean absolute deviation (MAD)
e) exponential smoothing
Ans: c
Section Ref: Designing Process Layouts
Level: easy
39. What is the shortest distance between two locations using north-south and east-west
movements called?
a) Euclidean distance
b) triangulated distance
c) rectilinear distance
d) Socratic distance
e) latitude-longitude (LL) distance
Ans: c
Section Ref: Designing Process Layouts
Level: easy
40. Using a relationship chart to develop acceptable layouts is part of a classic layout
technique called
a) Real layout planning
b) systematic layout planning
c) systematic from-to planning
d) systematic layout planning
e) SRP
Ans: d
Section Ref: Designing Process Layouts
Level: hard
41. Which type of movement is most like rectilinear?
a) driving cross-country on an interstate highway
b) flying an airplane
c) climbing a mountain
d) driving in New York City
e) riding a roller coaster
Ans: d
Section Ref: Designing Process Layouts
Level: moderate
42. How many different layout solutions are possible with 7 departments?
a) 7
b) 720
c) 28
d) 7000
e) 5040
Ans: e
Section Ref: Special Cases of Process Layout
Level: hard
43. How many different layout solutions are possible with 7 departments?
a) 7!
b) 6!
c) 7! 1
d) (1!)(2!)(3!)(4!)(5!)(6!)(7!)
e) 8!
Ans: a
Section Ref: Special Cases of Process Layout
Level: moderate
44. What are two of the most popular facility layout software packages?
a) CONWIP and CRAFT
b) ALDEP and CRAFT
c) CONWIP and MRP
d) ALDEP and MRP
e) ALDEP and CONWIP
Ans: b
Section Ref: Special Cases of Process Layout
Level: easy
45. Which popular facility layout software package works from an REL chart?
a) CONWIP
b) MRP
c) ALDEP
d) LAYOUT
e) CRAFT
Ans: c
Section Ref: Special Cases of Process Layout
Level: moderate
46. Which popular facility layout software package uses a from-to matrix?
a) CONWIP
b) MRP
c) ALDEP
d) LAYOUT
e) CRAFT
Ans: e
Section Ref: Special Cases of Process Layout
Level: moderate
47. Which facility layout software was developed for designing multistory layouts?
a) MULTICRAFT
b) MULTISTORY
c) CRAFT++
d) SPACECRAFT
e) SUPERLAYOUT
Ans: d
Section Ref: Special Cases of Process Layout
Level: hard
48. Warehouse layouts have the key characteristics of process layouts except
a) number of loads is not a design consideration
b) location isnt a major consideration
c) there is movement between the storage areas
d) from trips are the only consideration
e) there is no movement between the storage areas
Ans: e
Section Ref: Special Cases of Process Layout
Level: moderate
49. For the general warehouse layout problem, which department should be located
furthest from the dock?
a) least trips needed
b) most area needed
c) highest ratio of trips needed to area needed
d) smallest ratio of area needed to trips needed
e) smallest ratio of trips needed to area needed
Ans: e
Section Ref: Special Cases of Process Layout
Level: moderate
50. Approximately how much of the U.S. workforce works in an office environment?
a) 10%
b) 25%
c) 50%
d) 75%
e) 90%
Ans: c
Section Ref: Designing Product Layouts
Level: hard
51. Studies mentioned in the text have shown that workers that are in close proximity to
each other are more likely to ________________________________________.
a) catch a cold
b) date each other
c) get on each others nerves
d) have greater understanding, tolerance, and trust for one another
e) play practical jokes on each other
Ans: d
Section Ref: Designing Product Layouts
Level: moderate
52. On which key tradeoff does the textbook focus concerning office layouts?
a) cost vs. comfort
b) pictures vs. windows
c) cubes vs. doors
d) network printers vs. individual printers
e) proximity vs. privacy
Ans: e
Section Ref: Designing Product Layouts
Level: moderate
53. One important consideration in designing any layout is
a) consistency
b) flexibility
c) equitability
d) uniformity
e) tenure
Ans: b
Section Ref: Designing Product Layouts
Level: moderate
54. What is the term for the number of units we wish to produce over a specific period of
time?
a) job flow
b) output rate
c) cycle time
d) output flow
e) flow time
Ans: b
Section Ref: Designing Product Layouts
Level: easy
55. What is the term for the maximum amount of time each workstation has to complete its
assigned task?
a) output rate
b) task time
c) station time
d) cycle time
e) output time
Ans: d
Section Ref: Designing Product Layouts
Level: easy
56. What term tells us how frequently a product is completed?
a) output rate
b) task time
c) station time
d) cycle time
e) output time
Ans: d
Section Ref: Designing Product Layouts
Level: moderate
57. Which of the following statements is not true?
a) A perfectly balanced line has no bottlenecks.
b) It might be possible to split a bottleneck task into two smaller non-bottleneck tasks.
c) A production process always has at least one bottleneck.
d) A bottleneck task is the longest task in a process.
e) The bottleneck determines the lowest possible cycle time.
Ans: a
Section Ref: Designing Product Layouts
Level: moderate
58. What is the longest task in a process called?
a) obstruction
b) bottleneck
c) blockade
d) hindrance
e) constrainer
Ans: b
Section Ref: Designing Product Layouts
Level: easy
59. The bottleneck determines ______________________________.
a) which station has the minimum cycle time
b) the minimum cycle time of the whole process
c) the maximum cycle time of the whole process
d) the point at which a product layout converts to a process layout
e) which station has the maximum output rate
Ans: b
Section Ref: Designing Product Layouts
Level: hard
60. Assigning tasks to workstations is known as _____________________________.
a) offsetting the line
b) harmonizing the line
c) stabilizing the line
d) balancing the line
e) counterbalancing the line
Ans: d
Section Ref: Designing Product Layouts
Level: moderate
61. The theoretical minimum number of stations is the number of workstations that would
be needed if:
a) all stations were balanced.
b) all task times were the same.
c) the line was 100% efficient.
d) every task had a separate station.
e) the company had no absenteeism.
Ans: c
Section Ref: Designing Product Layouts
Level: easy
62. When line balancing, which rule does the textbook suggest for assigning tasks to
workstations?
a) shortest task time
b) first come first served
c) fewest predecessors
d) longest task time
e) most successors
Ans: d
Section Ref: Designing Product Layouts
Level: easy
63. Which production line shapes are particularly useful for the sharing of resources?
a) S and U
b) L and O
c) O and S
d) L and S
e) O and U
Ans: e
Section Ref: Group Technology (Cell) Layouts
Level: moderate
64. What is the amount by which the efficiency of a production line falls short of 100%?
a) balance delay
b) efficiency deficiency
c) efficiency delay
d) balance shortfall
e) percentage deficiency
Ans: a
Section Ref: Designing Product Layouts
Level: easy
65. What is the term for a system in which the product being worked on is physically
attached to the line and automatically moved to the next station when the cycle time has
elapsed?
a) cyclical line
b) paced line
c) autoline
d) continuous line
e) constrained line
Ans: b
Section Ref: Group Technology (Cell) Layouts
Level: easy
66. Group technology creates groupings of products primarily based on what?
a) product cost
b) raw materials requirements
c) similar processing requirements
d) operating characteristics
e) market segmentation
Ans: c
Section Ref: Group Technology (Cell) Layouts
Level: moderate
67. The items listed below are stored in a one-dock warehouse. Which of them should be
stored at the very back (furthest away from the dock)?
Item Trips Area Needed (blocks)
A 300 60
B 220 3
C 72 1
D 60 10
E 24 3
a) A
b) B
c) C
d) D
e) E
Ans: a
Response: See pages 357-358 (Trip ratio = trips/area needed: A = 300/60 = 5; B= 220/3 =
73.3; C = 72/1 = 72; D = 60/10 = 6; E = 24/3 = 8: A lowest trip ratio store furthest from
dock)
Level: moderate
68. Consider a production line that has a station with two machines, and each unit
produced at the station needs to be processed by both of the machines. (A unit cannot be
worked on by both machines simultaneously.) Each machine has a production capacity of 4
units per hour. What is the lowest possible cycle time of the station?
a) 4 minutes per unit
b) 8 minutes per unit
c) 7.5 minutes per unit
d) 30 minutes per unit
e) 15 minutes per unit
Ans: e
Section Ref: Special Cases of Process Layout
Level: hard
69. Which of the following is true?
a) A line with a lower cycle time has greater output than one with a higher cycle time.
b) A line with a higher cycle time has greater output than one with a lower cycle time.
c) Cycle time is unrelated to output rate.
d) A line must be arranged such that capacity grows with each successive station.
e) Cycle time cannot be greater than the task time of the bottleneck.
Ans: a
Section Ref: Designing Product Layouts
Level: moderate
70. The items listed below are stored in a one-dock warehouse. Which of them should be
stored at the very back (furthest away from the dock)?
Item Trips Area Needed (blocks)
Star Trek videos 2000 5
Ballet videos 5 1
Tom Cruise videos 200 2
The Simpsons videos 1000 2
Operations Management videos 500 1
a) Star Trek videos
b) ballet videos
c) Tom Cruise videos
d) The Simpsons videos
e) operations management videos
Ans: b
Section Ref: Special Cases of Process Layout
Level: moderate
71. The items listed below are stored in a one-dock warehouse. Which of them should be
stored at the very front (closest to the dock)?
Item Trips Area Needed (blocks)
A 300 60
B 220 3
C 74 1
D 60 10
E 24 3
a) A
b) B
c) C
d) D
e) E
Ans: c
Section Ref: Special Cases of Process Layout
Level: moderate
72. The items listed below are stored in a one-dock warehouse. Which of them should be
stored at the very front (closest to the dock)?
Item Trips Area Needed (blocks)
Star Trek videos 2000 5
Ballet videos 5 1
Tom Cruise videos 200 2
The Simpsons videos 1000 2
Operations Management videos 500 3
a) Star Trek videos
b) ballet videos
c) Tom Cruise videos
d) The Simpsons videos
e) operations management videos
Ans: d
Section Ref: Special Cases of Process Layout
Level: Moderate
73. Which of the following production line shapes is least likely to be found in a factory?
a) N
b) S
c) U
d) O
e) L
Ans: a
Section Ref: Group Technology (Cell) Layouts
Level: hard
74. What is Wal-Marts primary consideration for its store layout decision regarding the
number and size of aisles in its stores?
a) predictability
b) comfort
c) ease of navigation through the store
d) customer exposure to merchandise
e) inventory control
Ans: d
Section Ref: Types of Layouts
Level: hard
75. The companys ______ dictates type of layout the company will have.
a) location
b) process
c) union agreements
d) HR policies
e) market share
Ans: b
Section Ref: Facility Layout Within OM: How it all Fits Together
Level: moderate
True/False
1. An assembly line is an example of an intermittent processing system.
Ans: F
Section Ref: Types of Layouts
Level: easy
2. A process layout is seen in companies with continuous processing systems.
Ans: F
Section Ref: Types of Layouts
Level: easy
3. A hospital is an example of process layout.
Ans: T
Section Ref: Types of Layouts
Level: moderate
4. As compared to a process layout, a product layout generally requires less skilled workers.
Ans: T
Section Ref: Types of Layouts
Level: moderate
5. In general, scheduling resources is less challenging under a process layout than it would
be under a product layout.
Ans: F
Section Ref: Types of Layouts
Level: moderate
6. At Wal-Mart, to maximize customer comfort and enjoyment, layouts are designed with a
limited number of aisles, but each of which is very wide, rather than with multiple but
narrow aisles.
Ans: F
Section Ref: Types of Layouts
Level: hard
7. In product layouts, the material moves continuously and uniformly through a series of
workstations until the product is completed.
Ans: T
Section Ref: Types of Layouts
Level: easy
8. Load-distance calculations are very concerned with the direction of the move.
Ans: F
Section Ref: Designing Process Layouts
Level: moderate
9. Maximizing worker proximity minimizes privacy issues.
Ans: F
Section Ref: Special Cases of Process Layout
Level: moderate
10. In a fixed position layout, resources are fixed in various locations and the products move
from one resource location to the next.
Ans: F
Section Ref: Designing Process Layouts
Level: easy
11. A predecessor can be worked in parallel with a successor.
Ans: F
Section Ref: Designing Process Layouts
Level: easy
12. Managers use a from-to matrix for facility layout design to identify both the number of
trips and the direction of those trips.
Ans: F
Section Ref: Designing Process Layouts
Level: moderate
13. Typically, an REL chart is more subjective than a from-to matrix.
Ans: T
Section Ref: Designing Process Layouts
Level: moderate
14. An REL chart can contain ratings of both desirability of closeness and undesirability of
closeness.
Ans: T
Section Ref: Designing Process Layouts
Level: moderate
15. The shortest distance between two locations is called rectilinear distance.
Ans: F
Section Ref: Designing Process Layouts
Level: moderate
16. When possible, managers should purchase and use CRAFT because it gives an optimal
solution to the facility layout problem.
Ans: F
Section Ref: Special Cases of Process Layout
Level: moderate
17. A heuristic solution always provides the best possible answer.
Ans: F
Section Ref: Special Cases of Process Layout
Level: moderate
18. For the general warehouse layout problem the department with the highest ratio of
trips to areas needed should be located closest to the dock.
Ans: T
Section Ref: Special Cases of Process Layout
Level: moderate
19. The cycle time of a production line is based on the workstation with the highest
potential output rate.
Ans: F
Section Ref: Special Cases of Process Layout
Level: moderate
20. If a process has a faster cycle time, then its cycle time has decreased.
Ans: T
Section Ref: Special Cases of Process Layout
Level: moderate
21. As the cycle time of a process decreases, its output also decreases.
Ans: F
Section Ref: Special Cases of Process Layout
Level: moderate
22. The theoretical minimum number of stations results in the production of daily
requirements when no inefficiency exists.
Ans: T
Section Ref: Special Cases of Process Layout
Level: moderate
23. Group Technology has the advantage of bringing the efficiencies of a process layout to a
product layout environment.
Ans: F
Section Ref: Group Technology Layouts
Level: hard
24. A product layout can look like an S-curve.
Ans: T
Section Ref: Group Technology (Cell) Layouts
Level: moderate
25. Marketing is not highly affected by layout planning.
Ans: F
Section Ref: Facility Layout Across the Organization
Level: easy
Problems
1. Consider the following layout of departments.
Compute the ld score given the following from-to matrix.
Trips Between Departments
Department A B C D E F
A 12 45 3 14 29
B 16 72 5 42
C 30 20 90
D 10 4
E 12
F
Answer: 743
A B
C
D F E
2. Consider the following two layouts of departments.
Layout 1 Layout 2
Compute the ld score for each and choose the best, given the following from-to
matrix.
Trips Between Departments
Department A B C D E
A 18 8 3 4
B 16 22 5
C 50 20
D 90
E
Answer: layout 1 = 344, layout 2 = 316, layout 2 is better
3. A firm has four departments to locate in the following space.
Department A has a daily average of 20, 10, and 60 trips to Departments B, C, and D,
respectively; Department B has a daily average of 25 and 30 trips to Departments C and D,
respectively; and Department C has a daily average of 50 trips to Department D. While
there are 24 different layout combinations, only three are effectively different (in terms of
distances between departments). Calculate the ld score for the three different
combinations and choose the best.
Ans: A diagonal from B = 265, A diagonal from C = 235, A diagonal from D = 280, best
layout is A diagonal from C
D
E
C
A
B
C
D
B
A
E
4. The items listed below are stored in a one-dock warehouse. Rank them in order from
closest to the dock to furthest away.
Item Trips Area Needed (blocks)
A 200 5
B 100 4
C 78 3
D 60 2
E 35 1
Ans: A-E-D-C-B
5. The items listed below are stored in a one-dock warehouse. Rank them in order from
closest to the dock to furthest away.
Item Trips Area Needed (blocks)
Golf balls 300 1
Basketballs 420 3
Ballet shoes 10 1
Aerobics tapes 20 1
Volleyballs 360 3
Ans: golf balls-basketballs-volleyballs-aerobics tapes-ballet shoes
6. If a production line produces 800 units per 8-hour workday, what is the cycle time in
minutes?
Ans: 0.6 minutes
7. Suppose that assembly of a product involves three different tasks taking 10 seconds, 20
seconds, and 30 seconds, respectively. What is the maximum possible output per hour of
the system?
Ans: 120
8. Maxines cookie factory bottleneck is the oven. It takes 45 seconds to cook a batch of 144
cookies. What is the maximum number of cookies that Maxine can produce every hour?
Ans: 11,520
9. Maxine has identified the following process times and desired output. What is the
theoretical minimum number of work stations?
mix dough 90 sec desired output
30
batches/hour
shape cookie 50 sec
cook 45 sec
cool 75 sec
Ans: 3
10. Suppose that assembly of a product involves four different tasks taking 40 seconds, 20
seconds, 30 seconds, and 80 seconds, respectively. What is the theoretical minimum
number of stations?
Ans: 3
11. Suppose that an assembly line consists of two stations. Station 1 involves three tasks,
taking 40 seconds, 20 seconds, and 30 seconds, respectively. Station 2 involves one task
that takes 80 seconds. Compute the efficiency and balance delay of the assembly line.
Ans: efficiency = 94.4%, balance delay = 5.6%