Assignment 11
Assignment 11
1. __________ refers to the technology, tool or method used to improve entirely the design and
manufacturing process and increase productivity, to help people and machines to
communicate.
a) Computer Integrated Manufacturing
b) Design for Manufacturing
c) Design for disassembly
d) None of these
Ans. a) Computer Integrated Manufacturing
2. What are the advantages of CIM?
a) Lowers costs
b) Improved delivery times
c) Better quality
d) All of these
Ans. d) All of these
3. Facilities include the factory, production machines and tooling, material handling equipment,
inspection equipment and computer systems that control the manufacturing operations.
a) True
b) False
Ans. a) True
4. ____________________is the way the equipment is physically arranged in the factory.
a) Manufacturing design
b) Plant layout
c) Production line
d) None of these
Ans. b) Plant layout
5. Which of the following manufacturing system(s) is(are) categorized in terms of the human
participation in the processes performed by the manufacturing system.
a) Manual work system
b) Worker machine system
c) Automated system
d) All of these
Ans. d) All of these
6. ________________ automation is a manufacturing system in which the sequence of
processing operations is fixed by the equipment configuration.
a) Fixed
b) Flexible
c) Programmable
d) None of the above
Ans. a) Fixed
7. Which of the following operations are for discrete products?
a) Processing and assembly operations
b) Material handling
c) Inspection and Testing
d) All of these
Ans. d) All of these
8. _______________ automation provides highest product variety.
a) Flexible
b) Programmable
c) Fixed
d) All of these
Ans. b) Programmable
9. A company is producing 12,000 cars annually. Determine the production scale of the industry.
a) Low production
b) Low‐medium production
c) Medium production
d) High production
Ans. d) High production
10. Find the typical cycle time for a production operation for the given data.
Processing time for the operation = 9 s
Handling time = 2 s
Tool handling time = 4 s
a) 09 s
b) 11 s
c) 13 s
d) 15 s
Ans. c) 15 s
𝑆𝑜𝑙𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛: T T T T 9 2 4 15 s