Which of the Following Is Not a Desirable Management Action

question 26

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is not a desirable management action to relieve the bottleneck constraint of the assembly operation?

• A)Eliminate idle time at the bottleneck operation.
• B)Shift products that do not have to be made on the bottleneck machine to nonbottleneck machines,or to outside processing facilities.
• C)Reduce setup time and processing time at bottleneck operations.
• D)Improve the quality of parts,or products manufactured,at the bottleneck operation.
• E)Emphasize that poor quality is less costly at a bottleneck operation compared to the nonbottleneck operation.

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

An indicator of the extent of differences or spread within a group of numbers.

Sample Size

The number of observations or data points collected in a sample from a population, used for making estimations or testing hypotheses.

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An adjustment applied in statistical calculations to account for the effect of sampling from a finite population, as opposed to an infinite one.

Sample Size

The number of observations or data points selected from a population for the purpose of statistical analysis.