What are the four conditions needed for uninterrupted flow? Describe each.

Which section organizes, assigns, and supervises tactical response resources?

A. Operations;

B. Planning;

C. Logistics;

D. Finance/Administration.

After a product is designed, what is the responsibility of manufacturing engineering?

Describe the differences between preventive maintenance and total productive maintenance.

Why is preventive maintenance important?

What is quality for manufacturing? How is it obtained?

What are the two reasons why quality is important?

Name and describe five advantages of short setup time.

Why is process flexibility desirable? What two conditions are required?

What is a work cell? How does it operate? What conditions are necessary to establish one? What are its advantages?

What is repetitive manufacturing? What are its advantages? What are its limitations?

What is the definition of waste as it is used in this text?

A company carries $10$ items in stock, each with an economic order quantity of $\$ 20,000$. Through a program of component standardization, the $10$ items are reduced to $5$ . The total annual demand is the same, but the annual demand for each item is twice what it was before. In Chapter $10$ , we learned that the economic order quantity varies as the square root of the annual demand. Since the annual demand for each item is now doubled, calculate:
a. The new EOQ.
b. The total average inventory before standardization.
c. The total average inventory after standardization.

In which stage of the product life-cycle would you place Mi Ola’s products? In this stage, would you expect Helena Fogarty to put more emphasis on developing new products, deleting existing products, or modifying existing products? Why?