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1
Geographic information systems (GISs) combine:
A)Historical values of property with business decisions
B)Database technology with mapping technology
C)Facility layout decisions with facility location decisions
D)Global performance measures with day-to-day facility decisions
2
Subjectivity typically enters the multifactor rating process through:
A)The assignment of the weights
B)The summing of scores
C)The addition of the weights to the scores
D)The elimination of some alternatives prior to the process
3
Ultimately, business location decisions will almost always be:
A)Optimizing decisions
B)Based solely on quantifiable data
C)Very subjective
D)Made using unbiased information
4
Businesses with inputs that are expensive to transport are likely to locate:
A)Near customers
B)Near oceans
C)Near suppliers of raw materials
D)Near retail distribution centers
5
Once a decision has been made to use a process-oriented layout, one must still determine:
A)The relative locations of each department
B)The amount of time each workcenter should spend on each product
C)The best way to minimize balance delay
D)The minimum number of workcenters that can meet demand
6
In a service, a disadvantage of a process-oriented layout might be that:
A)It lacks flexibility.
B)It can put pressure on customers to hurry.
C)It may force customers to have to spend time waiting in lines.
D)It may eliminate the advantages gained by customer knowledge.
7
The SLP approach to determining relative locations of departments can best be described as:
A)An optimization technique for layout decisions
B)An alternative to line balancing
C)A group process for identifying root causes of layout problems
D)A way of ranking the desirability of closeness between pairs of departments
8
When line balancing, the inability to break jobs into small work elements can:
A)Add to the efficiency of the line
B)Add to the minimum number of workstations required
C)Increase the balance delay
D)Make it more likely that a process-oriented layout would be better to use
9
The cycle time of a production line is calculated by:
A)Dividing the minimum number of workstations by the actual number of workstations
B)Dividing the production time available per day by the units of output required per day
C)Dividing the production time available per day by the minimum number of workstations
D)Adding the number of workstations to the known amount of idle time
10
Cellular layouts can best be described as:
A)Being less effective than either process-oriented or product-oriented layouts
B)Being a small assembly line
C)Using totally dedicated equipment
D)Providing some of the benefits from each of product-oriented and process-oriented layouts





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