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Production
Planning
Operations Control
Conversion Process
Misc.
100
All activities managers engage in to produce goods and services.
What is operations management?
100
The amount of products or services than an organization can produce in a given time.
What is capacity?
100
All the activities involved in obtaining required materials, supplies, components and parts from other firms.
What is purchasing?
100
The ability of a good or service to satisfy a human need.
What is utility?
100
the process of creating a set of specifications from which a product can be produced.
What is product design?
200
A manufacturing process that lowers the cost required to produce a large number of identical or similar products.
What is mass production?
200
A process in which people must do most of the work.
What is labor intensive technology?
200
The process of managing inventories in such a way as to minimize inventory costs, including both holding costs and stock-out costs.
What is inventory control?
200
utility created by people converting raw materials, finances, and information in finished products.
What is form utility?
200
the arrangement of machinery, equipment and personnel within a production facility.
What is plant layout?
300
A process in operations management in which raw materials are broken into different component parts
What is the analytical process?
300
A process in which machines and equipment do most of the work.
What is capital intensive technology?
300
A system designed to ensure that materials or supplies arrive at a facility just when they are needed so that storage and holding costs are minimized.
What is just in time inventory?
300
the degree to which the resources are physically changed.
What is magnitude of change?
300
the period during which an operational plan will be in effect.
What is planning horizon?
400
A process in which raw materials or components are combined to create a finished product.
What is the synthetic process?
400
The development of a plan for converting a product idea into an actual product or service.
What is design planning?
400
The process of ensuring that materials and other resources are at the right place at the right time.
What is scheduling?
400
the resources that make up the major or most important input
What is focus?
400
the process of ensuring that goods and services are produced in accordance with design specifications.
What is quality control?
500
A set of activities intended to identify new ideas that have the potential to result in new goods and services.
What is R&D?
500
A group of similar products that differ only in relatively minor characteristics.
What is a product line?
500
A computerized system that integrates production planning and inventory control.
What is materials requirements planning (MRP)?
500
An economy in which more effort is devoted to the production of services than to the production of goods.
What is a service economy?
500
the total or near-total use of machines to do work.
What is automation?