In order to properly manage a factory floor and to provide feedback to customers regarding order status, it is important to know, at any time, the status of the production orders in process. Generally, this will require that transactions are entered into the system. Which of the following processes would be most efficient in transacting the information?

Changing plant layout to a manufacturing cell arrangement to attain faster plant throughput requires

Producing a consistently high-quality product requires which of the following actions?

Production orders are riskiest to dispatch w/o knowing

A company wants to lower costs on products purchased from a single source supplier. The most effectively way to accomplish this is to

One method to increase machine utilization is to

Variability refers to a characteristic of

Production becomes less synchronous the lower in a BOM the part is due to

Which of the following bottleneck performance measures is as meaningful in a MTO environment with a functional layout as it is in a MTS environment with a flow layout?

A company with customer-specific configurations can minimize the impact of demand changes by achieving flexibility in

Corrective actions are defined as