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Production management is the process of managing the activities of a business to create products and services. So, it happens in service as well as in manufacturing industries.

In manufacturing operations, production management includes responsibility for product and process design, planning and control issues involving capacity and quality, and organization and supervision of the workforce.

The '5 Ms' of Production management are: men, machines, methods, materials, and money.

Production Management Practice Test
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1. Which of the following lets an organization get the right goods and services to the place they are needed at the right time, in the proper quantity and at an acceptable cost?
2. Which of the following is the sequence of operations through which product must pass
3. Time and motion studies focus on
4. Which of the following is not effectiveness criterion for scheduling?
5. The activities and process used in making both tangible and intangible products is known as
6. Which of the following classification of scheduling strategies is not practical in case of machine breakdown?
7. The typical goal used when developing a process oriented layout strategy is to
8. The concept of total quality control i.e that quality must be attended to at all stages of the industrial cycle and throughout the organization is the creation of which of the following pioneers ?
9. ABC analysis is based upon the principal that
10. Decisions include facility planning, location and layout.
11. Making identical , interchangeable components or complete products is referred to as
12. Histograms are used for which of the following? 1. To record huge volumes of data about a process. 2. To indicate the extent of each category of problems in descending order of magnitude of the problem 3 To reveal if the pattern of distribution has a single peak, or many peaks. 4 To locate the points at which a problem exists.
13. Two effective global strategies adopted by firms are _________and
14. In a PERT/CPM network, computing the critical path requires
15. Which of the following are pitfalls of subcontracting? 1. It lowers the morale of all workers 2. It wears out the workers and the overall productivity drops off 3. It risks opening the clients door to a competitor 4. It may be expensive
16. Process technologies differ in their flexibility capabilities and economics and will therefore be appropriate for different parts of the volume – variety matrix. Flexible manufacturing systems are usually
17. _________ plan and manage the project on a day-to-day basis for this stage _________ define the coordination, control activities and identify the suitable personnel to carry them out.
18. Consider the below mentioned statements: 1. Quality circles are very efficient in executing low cost projects by using non-intrusive methods of improving productivity and quality throughout the organization. 2. In matching method, the production capacity is held constant at an optimum level.
19. Which of the following are inputs received during the design phase? 1. Functional specifications of the project 2. System design specifications 3. Preliminary project evaluation details 4. Project proposal
20. Coordination between various operations in identifying the jobs that have to be done is a function which of the following?
21. A……..is a visual representation of a process showing the various steps.
22. Use of sequencing role shortest processing time generally result in
23. What type of control chart is used to monitor the number of defects per unit?
24. Which of the following is true regarding forward scheduling? Forward scheduling is the scheduling of
25. ________________ helps in production management by developing an overall plan.

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