OPRE 6302 on 20 March 2008 - The University of Texas at Dallas

Q2: Choose the most appropriate answer and mark your answer on this paper.
1. If our production schedule was set to be a chase strategy with the weekly demand of Week 1: 5000; Week
2: 3000; Week 3: 6000; Week 4: 4000. The regular capacity is 4000 per week. What is the regular time
production schedule per week in weeks 1 to 4?
(a) 5000, 3000, 6000, 4000
(b) 4000, 3000, 4000, 4000
(c) 3000, 3000, 3000, 3000
(d) 4000, 4000, 4000, 4000
(e) None of the above
B Steven Yee
2. A process that is high volume, extremely standardized, very low cost, but not very flexible is an example of:
(a) Job Shop
(b) Continuous Processing
(c) Batch Processing
(d) Assembly Line
(e) Project
B Ashley Heis
3. In most cases, the fastest way to increase capacity to meet a short-term requirement is to:
(a) hire additional workers
(b) subcontract work
(c) acquire more equipment
(d) use overtime
(e) outsource
D Yao-Don Hung
4. Gary opened an office accessory store to supply cartridges of copy machines to UTD SOM which uses 8
cartridges a month. Gary charges $50 for a cartridge and $100 for a delivery. A SOM professor figured out
that the holding cost of a cartridge is $8 per year. How many times in a year does SOM order cartridges
from Gary?
(a) less than once
(b) once or more but less than twice
(c) twice or more but less than thrice
(d) thrice or more but less than four times
(e) four times or more
B, EOQ=48.9, Demand/EOQ=96/48.9, between 1 and 2, Gary Li
5. Mattel just received an unexpected high-priority order for 150 Cabbage Patch dolls that must be shipped
out as soon as possible. At this point there are no dolls in the assembly line. There are six different stations
that the dolls move through to be produced. Activity 1 takes 3 minutes, Activity 2 = 5 minutes, Activity 3
= 2 minutes, Activity 4 = 3 minutes, Activity 5 = 5 minutes, Activity 6 = 4 minutes. How long will it take
for Mattel to have the order ready for shipping?