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APICS CPIM-ECO Execution and Control of Operations Exam Practice Test

Demo: 15 questions
Total 105 questions

Execution and Control of Operations Questions and Answers

Question 1

To decrease time to market for discrete products, it is most effective to improve which of the following phases?

Options:

A.

Product definition

B.

Product design

C.

Production

D.

Distribution

Question 2

Operation-to-operation quantity reporting is most important to which of the following production environments?

Options:

A.

Job-lot production

B.

Process production

C.

Repetitive manufacturing

D.

Continuous manufacturing

Question 3

A work center has a balance between the scheduled input and output over the next 4 weeks. One of the three machines in the work center will be out of service for 1 week. Currently, three operators work the first shift, one operator works the second shift, and each has a 40-hour work week. Which of the following actions is best to take to maintain the schedule?

Options:

A.

Move an operator from the first to the second shift.

B.

Schedule 40 hours of overtime.

C.

Subcontract 40 hours of work.

D.

Adjust the input.

Question 4

Which of the following concepts is a reason to create a visual factory?

Options:

A.

They are more successful because visual systems are more robust.

B.

They are inexpensive to implement.

C.

They are more successful because they display well for customer visits.

D.

They are successful because they are self-explaining and self-improving.

Question 5

A factory is at capacity in a period of stable demand. Which of the following actions would be best to maintain the competitive advantage when product variety is expected to increase?

Options:

A.

Establish additional factories.

B.

Increase capacity.

C.

Reduce takt time.

D.

Apply single-minute exchange of die (SMED)

Question 6

Which of the following approaches should improve a supplier's quality, price, and delivery performance?

Options:

A.

Long-term commitments for capacity

B.

Fixed warehouse storage locations

C.

Secondary sources for components

D.

Timely inspection of material

Question 7

The next job to be performed was selected because it had the least amount of operation time prior to the due date. Which of the following priority sequencing rules was being used?

Options:

A.

Slack time per operation

B.

Shortest operation time

C.

Critical ratio

D.

Slack time per order

Question 8

A plant that implements a total preventive maintenance program would be likely to:

Options:

A.

acquire the latest in computer-controlled production equipment.

B.

use statistical process control to identify equipment problems.

C.

involve production workers directly in maintaining and managing production equipment.

D.

identify and remove the causes of abnormal instrumentation and tooling variation.

Question 9

After some investigation, a packaging company determined that all of its defective containers were being delivered by one of their third-party trucking companies. What quality tool would have been used to find this information?

Options:

A.

Check sheet

B.

Pareto diagram

C.

Plan-do-check-action

D.

Process flow diagram

Question 10

Scheduling to less-than-full capacity facilitates which of the following outcomes?

Options:

A.

Material handling reduction

B.

Increased finished goods

C.

Preventative maintenance

D.

Reduced forecast variance

Question 11

A work center has one machine that is operated for one shift per day. The shop runs an 8-hour shift 5 days per week. Machine utilization has been 60% with efficiency at 80%. A routing through this work center has a standard run time of .10 hours per piece. Job number 1234 is for 200 pieces. If the utilization is improved to 80%, the difference in calculated lead time for the job is how many days?

Options:

A.

1.0

B.

1.3

C.

2.1

D.

2.7

Question 12

A kanban shop floor control system has which of the following characteristics?

Options:

A.

Large lot sizes

B.

Fixed routings

C.

Fixed worker assignments

D.

Forward scheduling

Question 13

Which of the following basic layout principles should be applied to improve work flow?

Options:

A.

Sequencing layouts for families of parts

B.

Locating supermarkets near U-cells

C.

Reducing number of machine tools

D.

Increasing vertical part movement

Question 14

Capability index is useful to predict which of the following factors?

Options:

A.

Cell output

B.

Material and resource priority

C.

Overall equipment effectiveness

D.

Process variability

Question 15

Group technology identifies the common characteristics of parts on the basis of which of the following factors?

Options:

A.

Yields

B.

Processes

C.

Source

D.

Costs

Demo: 15 questions
Total 105 questions