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Production Management
Operations Management
Facilities
Planning
Quality
100
The creation of finished goods and services using the factors of production: land, labor, capital, entrepreneurship and knowledge.
What is production?
100
A specialized area in management that converts or transforms resources (including human resource) into goods and services.
What is operations management?
100
Where you decide to put a company.
What is location?
100
The function in a firm that searches for high-quality material resources, finds the best suppliers and negotiates the best price for goods and services.
What is purchasing?
100
The common name given to quality management and assurance standards.
What is ISO9000?
200
The process of taking the factors of production and using those inputs to produce goods, services and ideas.
What is the production process?
200
Putting together components.
What is assembly process?
200
The physical arrangement of resources in a production facility.
What is layout?
200
A production process in which a minimum of inventory is kept on the premises and parts, supplies and other needs are delivered only as needed.
What is Just-In-Time?
200
A quality measure that allows only 3.4 defects per million opportunities.
What is Six Sigma quality?
300
Land, labor, capital, entrepreneurship and knowledge.
What are inputs?
300
Tailoring products to meet the needs of a large number of individual customers.
What is mass customization?
300
When workers congregate around a product in order to complete it.
What is fixed-position layout?
300
A computer-based operations management system that uses sales forecasts to make sure that needed parts and materials are available at the right time and place.
What is materials requirement planning (MRP)?
300
Bar graph showing production managers what projects are being worked on and what state they are at in any given time.
What is a Gantt chart?
400
Running short productions and the producer adjusts machines frequently.
What is intermittent process?
400
The reason US manufacturing needs fewer workers even though we produce more goods than ever.
What is productivity?
400
Flexibility in where you work.
What is telecommuting?
400
One major cost of production.
What is the expense of holding parts, motors and other items in storage for later use?
400
Analyzing the tasks to complete a given project, estimating the time needed to complete each, and computing the minimum time needed to complete the whole project.
What is PERT?
500
Compared to mass production, this method uses less of everything.
What is lean manufacturing?
500
Methods that do not use up or destroy resources.
What is sustainability?
500
Availability of workers, access to suppliers, customers and transportation, and local regulations including zoning and taxes.
What is taken into account when deciding where to locate a business?
500
Requirement for Just-in-Time production to work effectively.
What is must have an accurate production schedule?
500
Leadership, strategic planning, customer and market focus, information and analysis, human resources focus, process management and business results.
What are the seven key areas that a company must demonstrate quality in to win the Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Awards?