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This document outlines an individual assignment for 4th year management students at Golden State College, focusing on operations management. It includes true/false statements, matching exercises, multiple-choice questions, and practical problems related to capacity, layout, and decision-making in operations. The assignment is designed to assess students' understanding of key concepts in operations management.

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This document outlines an individual assignment for 4th year management students at Golden State College, focusing on operations management. It includes true/false statements, matching exercises, multiple-choice questions, and practical problems related to capacity, layout, and decision-making in operations. The assignment is designed to assess students' understanding of key concepts in operations management.

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GOLDEN STATE COLLEGE

DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT

Individual assignment of Operations management 4th year management students

Exam Weight: 50%


Name--------------------------------------------ID No. ___________section______

Part I: say true if the statement is correct and false if the statement is incorrect
(1point each)
1. Process is a method used in an industry for doing or making something.
2. Intermittent operations are used to produce a variety of products with different processing
requirements in higher volumes.
3. Capacity decisions never affect competitiveness of the firm.
4. Design capacity is the maximum output rate that can be achieved by a facility under ideal
conditions.
5. Capacity utilization can simply be computed as the ratio of actual output over capacity.
6. Product process is a functional layout that group resources based on similar processes or
functions.
7. Utilization is the number of units a facility can hold, receive, store, or produce in a period of
time.
8. Capacity decisions are based on technological concerns, not demand forecasts.
9. Manufacturers may want to locate close to their customers, if the transportation of finished
goods is expensive or difficult.
10. If the schedule calls for the production of 120 units per day and 480 minutes of production
time are available per day, the cycle time should be 4 minutes.
11. One drawback of a product-oriented layout is that work stoppage at any one point ties up the
whole operation.

Part II Matching: match the statements in column “A” with terms in column “B”(1 point
each)
column “A” column “B”
1. Large volume of a standardized product A. project process
2. Small volume and a high degree of customization B. line process
3. One kind product exactly to customer specifications C. continuous process
4. Very high volume of a fully standardized product D. batch process

Part III: choose the best answer from the given alternatives (1 point each)

1. Which one of the following is a condition in which the average cost of a unit produced is
reduced as the amount of output is increased?
A. Best operating level C. Diseconomies of scale
B. Economies of scale D. all are answers
2. Which one of the following is a modeling tool used to evaluate independent decisions
that must be made in sequence?
a. Decision tree C. decision outcome
b. Decision point D. none
3. Which one of the following is not a type of plant location decision?
a. New plant c. expanding existing plant
b. Relocate existing plant d. none
4. Which one of the following is a factor that affect location decision except?
a. Proximity to Sources of Supply c. Proximity to government
b. Proximity to Customers d. Labor availability
5. Which one of the following is the disadvantage of process layout?
a. It takes long time to deliver service
b. It consumes more money
c. It increases cost of training
d. All of the above

6. which one of the following is the role of decision trees in product design?
a. to rank products in descending order of their dollar contribution to the firm
b. to better understand the customers' wants
c. to calculate the expected value of each course of action
d. to calculate the value of quality function deployment
7. A product-focused process is commonly used to produce
a. high-volume, high-variety products
b. low-volume, high-variety products
c. high-volume, low-variety products
d. low-variety products at low-volume
8. _____________ is an example of an assembly line?
a. product-focused process c. repetitive process
b. process-focused process d. line process

9. Which one of the following is true about effective capacity?


a. maximum output of a system in a given period
b. capacity a firm expects to achieve given the current operating constraints
c. average output that can be achieved under ideal conditions
d. minimum usable capacity of a particular facility
10. Community attitudes, zoning restrictions, and quality of labor force are likely to be
considered
in which of the following location decision methods?
a. transportation method
b. locational break-even analysis
c. center-of-gravity method
d. factor rating method
12. A clothing chain is considering two different locations for a new retail outlet. They have
identified the four factors listed in the following table as the basis for evaluation, and have
assigned weights as shown on the left. The manager has rated each location on each factor,
on a 100-point basis, as shown on the right.
Factor Factor Description Weight Jimma Bonga
1 Average community income .40 30 20
2 Community growth potential .25 40 30
3 Availability of public transportation .15 20 20
4 Labor cost .20 10 30

What is the score for Bonga?


a. 10.00 c. 25.75
b. 24.50 d. 27.00
13. The center-of-gravity method is used primarily to determine what type of locations?
a. service locations c. distribution center locations
b. manufacturing locations d. supplier locations
14. The fixed-position layout would be most appropriate in which of the following settings?
a. a fast-food restaurant
b. a doctor's office
c. a casual dining restaurant
d. a cruise ship assembly facility
15. The main issue in designing process layouts concerns the relative positioning of
a. safety devices
b. departments
c. raw materials
d. entrances, loading docks, etc.
16. In a product-oriented layout, the process of deciding how to assign tasks to workstations is
referred to as
a. station balancing c. task allocation
b. process balancing d. line balancing
17. A production line is to be designed to make 500 El-More dolls per day. Each doll requires 11
activities totaling 16 minutes of work. The factory operates 750 minutes per day. The cycle time
for this assembly line is_______________
a. one-half minute c. two minutes
b. one and one-half minutes d. 5,500 minutes
18. Cycle time is computed as
a. desired output divided by the daily operating time
b. daily operating time divided by the product of desired output and the sum of job times
c. the product of desired output and the sum of job times divided by daily operating time
d. daily operating time divided by the scheduled output

19. The project remains in one place and workers and equipment come to that one work area in a
__________ layout.
a. Fixed position c. Process
b. Hybrid d. Product
20. Four hundred and eighty minutes of production time are available per day. The schedule calls
for the production of 80 units per day. Each unit of the product requires 30 minutes of work.
What is the theoretical minimum number of workstations?
a. 2 c. 4
b. 3 d. 5

Part V work out


1. Sheger bread factory is preparing to build one bakery factory to serve its four store shops.
The four store locations are at coordinates shown below. Also, the volume from each
store is provided. (8%)
a. determine x and y coordinate of center of gravity.
b. Draw the graph and point center of gravity on the graph

X coordinate Y coordinate Volume


Paisa 20 40 100
Merkato 30 15 400
6 kilo 55 60 150
Bole 20 70 250

2. An executive conference center has the physical ability to handle 1,100 participants.
However, conference management personnel believe that only 1,000 participants can be
handled effectively for most events. The last event, although forecasted to have 1,000
participants, resulted in the attendance of only 950 participants. What are the utilization
and efficiency of the conference facility? (7%)

Design Capacity = 1,100 participants


Effective Capacity = 1,000 participants
Actual Output = 950 participants

ANSWER SHEET
Name: ID:

Part I. True or false Part II Part III choice


Matching
1 1 1 13
2 2 2 14
3 3 3 15
4 4 4 16
5 5 17
6 6 18
7 7 19
8 8 20
9 9
10 10
11 11
12

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