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Manufacturing Processes MCQ

What is a subassembly?

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Correct Answer: A part that is both a component and a parent part.

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What is a standard order quantity?

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Correct Answer: A variable that can be used to calculate order quantities for fixed or period order quantity order policies.

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What is Standard costing?

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Correct Answer: An accounting method used by some businesses to value their inventories

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Which of the following is not a standard cost variance?

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Correct Answer: Actual costs for a manufacturing order for a standard cost item

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A "where used" search would tell you _____

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Correct Answer: All of the items that use a certain machine

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In a "where used" search, the system would generate a list of all items _____.

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Correct Answer: That have a step involving that machine

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What is Unmet forecasted demand?

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Correct Answer: The difference between forecasted demand and actual production.

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What is the value of time and resources consumed to create one unit of product for an order called?

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Correct Answer: Unit costs

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What is the time fence?

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Correct Answer: The minimum amount of time required for production of an item.

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What is a routing outline?

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Correct Answer: A routing outline is a template that you can use to quickly and efficiently build new routings.

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Which of the following is NOT a Setup cost?

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Correct Answer: The cost of preparing a work area for production.

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What does a sequence number assigned to a particular step in a routing represent?

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Correct Answer: An operation in the manufacturing process

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What does scrap refer to in terms of manufacturing?

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Correct Answer: Scrap refers to components that are issued to a manufacturing order and are then flagged to be scrapped.

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What is a scheduling preference?

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Correct Answer: A user preference that controls the allocation of resources to a particular manufacturing order.

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Which of the following is not a type of data needed for scheduling?

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Correct Answer: Revenue

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What is SCAR?

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Correct Answer: Supplier Corrective Action Request

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What is sampling?

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Correct Answer: A statistical process of selecting a portion of a large group of items to be inspected.

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A sales order is a request for what?

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Correct Answer: Goods or services

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What is a sales order?

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Correct Answer: A request for goods or services.

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What is the definition of a "Return"?

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Correct Answer: An item or merchandise returned by a customer to your company.

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What is a replacement item?

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Correct Answer: An item in a mass update to bills of materials that is added to bills of materials.

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What is a replaced item?

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Correct Answer: An item in a mass update to bills of materials that is removed from bills of materials.

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What is a Regular bill of materials?

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Correct Answer: A simple, single-level bill of materials.

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What is a reference designator?

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Correct Answer: Information that specifies where components should be used in an assembly

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What is a record in computer data?

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Correct Answer: A group of computer data tied together by a common key

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What are raw materials?

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Correct Answer: Items used to build products.

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Which of the following is not a type of damage?

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Correct Answer: Quantity

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What is the meaning of QA required?

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Correct Answer: A designation for purchased items that must pass a quality inspection before being added to your inventory.

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What does QA stand for?

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Correct Answer: Quality Assurance

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What does perpetual inventory refer to?

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Correct Answer: An inventory tracking method that involves constantly updating inventory each time an item is added or removed.

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What is perpetual inventory?

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Correct Answer: A inventory tracking method that involves constantly updating inventory each time an item is added or removed.

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What is periodic inventory?

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Correct Answer: A inventory tracking method that involves taking inventory on a recurring basis, such as monthly, quarterly or yearly.

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Which of the following is not a variable used to calculate the period order quantity?

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Correct Answer: Order Due Date

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What does pegging reveal?

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Correct Answer: The source of the requirement quantity.

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What is a parent part?

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Correct Answer: An item built from the component parts.

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What is parallel routing?

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Correct Answer: A routing that includes some routing sequences that run concurrently

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What is an option bill of materials?

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Correct Answer: A bill of materials for a component signifying that the component won’t be identical in all finished products.

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What is an Option?

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Correct Answer: One of the available choices for some aspect of a configured item.

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What is an option in sales configurator?

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Correct Answer: One of the available choices for some aspect of a configured item

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What does "op code" stand for?

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Correct Answer: Operation code

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What is an operation code?

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Correct Answer: A code assigned to a particular task within the manufacturing process

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What is an operation in manufacturing?

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Correct Answer: A specific task within the manufacturing process

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What is an op code?

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Correct Answer: Operation code

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What is Net Change regeneration?

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Correct Answer: Updating MRP information based on changes to manufacturing orders, sales orders, purchase orders, and inventory quantities.

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Negative WIP occurs when you enter and post a manufacturing order receipt where:

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Correct Answer: More is consumed from WIP than was in WIP for the manufacturing order.

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What is the order fulfillment method for made items called?

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Correct Answer: Make-to-order

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What is a "make or buy item"?

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Correct Answer: Item that can be bought or manufactured by your company.

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What is an item?

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Correct Answer: A product that is produced by your plant.

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What is machine utilization?

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Correct Answer: A measure of how much of the available machine capacity is actually being used

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What is the number of machine hours needed to complete the operation called?

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Correct Answer: Machine time

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What is machine efficiency?

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Correct Answer: A measure of how a machine is suited for a specific task.

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What does a machine definition allow you to track?

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Correct Answer: Statistics for each machine, including vendor information, warranty period, and operating costs.

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Which of the following is NOT a piece of information displayed in a machine allocation record?

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Correct Answer: Work center's total scheduled machine hours

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Machine is defined as

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Correct Answer: Any tool, device or implement that you use in your manufacturing process.

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Which of the following is true about a labor code?

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Correct Answer: It is used to tie a job function to a specific pay grade.

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What is a labor code?

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Correct Answer: A code that is used to tie a job function to a specific pay grade.

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What is a job category?

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Correct Answer: Groupings that you can create to organize the titles and descriptions of jobs within your company.

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What is a job?

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Correct Answer: A series of business activities that, when completed, will fulfill a high-level objective.

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Indirect labor is ____.

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Correct Answer: The time spent on tasks that are not directly related to filling a specific manufacturing order.

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Indirect labor is the time spent on tasks that are not directly related to filling a what?

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Correct Answer: Specific manufacturing order

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What does an inclusion option do?

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Correct Answer: Automatically adds an item to a bill of materials when a customer selects a certain option.

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What are inclusions?

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Correct Answer: Option items automatically added to a configured bill of materials when a customer selects a certain option.

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What is the header record?

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Correct Answer: The information that ties the pieces of a larger record together

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Which of the following is NOT a component of General Ledger Variance?

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Correct Answer: WIP

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What does finite scheduling assume?

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Correct Answer: That limited capacity for labor and machines is available.

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What is a finished good?

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Correct Answer: An item that is manufactured for sale.

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What does "filled order" mean?

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Correct Answer: An order that has had all its requirements met and can be closed.

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What does an engineering bill of materials enable designers to do?

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Correct Answer: Study the costs of producing a design without impacting the material requirements that the system generates.

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What does ENG BOM stand for?

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Correct Answer: Engineering bill of materials

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How do employees earn efficiency ratings?

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Correct Answer: By meeting task goals set by the organization

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What is the employee allocation?

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Correct Answer: The assignment of workers to work areas.

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From the following, which is an element?

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Correct Answer: A manufacturing order

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What is an either item?

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Correct Answer: An item that can be bought or manufactured by your company

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What is ECR?

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Correct Answer: Engineering change request

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What does ECO stand for?

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Correct Answer: Engineering change order

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What does ECM stand for?

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Correct Answer: Engineering Change Management

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What is an example of a discrete item?

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Correct Answer: Computers

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What is direct labor?

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Correct Answer: The time spent by one or more production workers on filling a specific manufacturing order.

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What does destination routing allow you to do?

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Correct Answer: Add sequences to the destination routing

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What is a denial code?

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Correct Answer: An identifier for the reason why an engineering change request wasn’t approved.

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Defect codes are used to _______.

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Correct Answer: Help summarize information

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What is a default inventory site?

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Correct Answer: The location commonly used to store raw materials or finished goods.

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What is a configured bill of materials?

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Correct Answer: A bill of materials that is built by selecting options from a super bill of materials.

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What is the definition of Configuration data?

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Correct Answer: Information about the product's overall design.

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What does configuration data in Bill of Materials include?

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Correct Answer: The design authority for the product, the unit of measure, and the revision level.

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What is CONFIG BOM?

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Correct Answer: Configured bill of materials

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What does a component transaction allow you to do?

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Correct Answer: Allocate, reverse allocate, issue, reverse issue, scrap, or reverse scrap components for a manufacturing order.

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What are component parts?

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Correct Answer: Items used to build a product.

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What is company data?

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Correct Answer: The information you enter about your organization, such as its applicants, employees, benefits systems, training programs, and organizational structure.

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What is Class A?

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Correct Answer: A method for grouping similar parts or products

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What does backward infinite scheduling assume?

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Correct Answer: That the plant has unlimited machine and worker capacity

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What is the main difference between Backward finite scheduling and forward scheduling?

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Correct Answer: Backward finite scheduling starts from the due date, while forward scheduling starts from the earliest start date.

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What is Backflushing?

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Correct Answer: A method of accounting for the use of resources—labor and machine time, and items—based on standards you’ve defined.

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What is a back order?

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Correct Answer: An order to be fulfilled when stock for items in shortage is replenished.

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What is actual demand?

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Correct Answer: The total quantity of an item requested on all firm manufacturing orders.

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What is actual costing?

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Correct Answer: An inventory tracking method that involves constantly updating inventor yeach time an item is added or removed.

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What is meant by active routing?

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Correct Answer: Manufacturing order routing

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What is active routing?

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Correct Answer: A manufacturing process in which the route that a product takes is controlled by signals from the previous operation.

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What is an AQL table?

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Correct Answer: A representation of testing standards and sample sizes

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AQL tables include information about what?

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Correct Answer: Sample sizes and the maximum number of pieces that can fail inspection in an acceptable lot

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The A-side of a mold typically creates which cosmetic part?

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Correct Answer: The exterior of a cosmetic part.

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What is the A-Side?

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Correct Answer: The half of the mold that usually creates the exterior of a cosmetic part.

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What is the process of creating a three-dimensional object from a CAD model or scan?

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Correct Answer: Additive Manufacturing

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What does ACIS stand for?

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Correct Answer: Andy, Charles, and Ian's System

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