Product Design
Product Development
Production Development
Production
Production Evaluation
100
A working and functional model.
What is a prototype?
100
Studying the buying habits of groups of people.
What is market research?
100
The places in a production line where operations occur.
What are work stations?
100
A part of the process NOT checked during a pilot run.
What is adaptability?
100
A defect that could reduce the product's life span or cause it to fail.
What is a major defect?
200
It provides a three-dimensional view of a product.
What is a mock-up?
200
A mathematical comparison of how many products the public is willing to buy and how many products should be produced.
What is supply/demand ratio?
200
The lowest product cycle time is usually provided by this layout.
What is product layout?
200
The process of refining and tuning up the production system.
What is debugging?
200
A company generally bears the most expense when this group finds product defects.
What is the consumer?
300
A set of guidelines for developing a product idea.
What is design criteria?
300
"How will people use the product?"
What is ergonomics?
300
Excessive transportation times and distances, and possible points of traffic congestion are checked using this.
What is a materials flowchart?
300
During a pilot run, this factor is checked during the production process.
What is accuracy of tooling?
300
This technique tests only a certain percentage of the number of completed parts or products for defects.
What is random sampling?
400
The chief concern for form as a design criteria.
What is matching the intended function?
400
This term is used to describe most research done in manufacturing.
What is applied research?
400
It's the best layout for intermittent or batch manufacturing.
What is process layout?
400
The problem area that is defined as a point in a production line where parts back up because of the system design.
What is a bottleneck?
400
The best possible location for inspections.
What is after each operation?
500
A common trade-off for design criteria.
What is durability versus cost?
500
Name the three variables used to compute the "break-even point" in financial analysis.
What are fixed costs (F), variable costs (V), and selling price (P)?
500
It's listed on both a flow process chart and an operations process chart.
What is the inspection step?
500
The department that provides production engineering, quality control, and works with production areas.
What is the production department?
500
This activity uses random sampling during both acceptance of raw materials and the manufacturing processes.
What is quality control?
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