When a Manufacturer Automates Production of a Product by Installing

question 42

Multiple Choice

When a manufacturer automates production of a product by installing computer systems to monitor processes and robots to do some of the assembly tasks, it is an example of ____________________.

• A) computer integrated manufacturing
• B) computer-aided manufacturing
• C) process control
• D) task control

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Definitions:

Accelerated Testing

A testing methodology that speeds up the normal use rate of a product to quickly observe potential failures and improve its reliability over its lifetime.

FR(%)

A notation often representing failure rate percentage, signifying the likelihood of a component or system failing within a specific time period.

FR(N)

A notation often used in reliability engineering to refer to failure rate functions.

MTBF

Mean Time Between Failures, a reliability metric that denotes the average time between failures of a system or component.