Answers:
Objective Questions:
1. What is productivity in a business context?
Answer: Creating more products with fewer resources
2. Which of the following are examples of economic growth?
Answer: A company's revenue increasing due to improved efficiency
3. How can Tata Motors increase its productivity?
Answer: By improving their manufacturing process to build cars faster
4. What role does automation play in improving productivity?
Answer: It allows repetitive tasks to be completed more efficiently
5. What is the primary focus of a company’s Production process?
Answer: Creating goods or services for sale
6. What is the purpose of Inventory Management in supply chain management?
Answer: Ensuring enough products are available to meet demand
7. Which of the following correctly describes "Logistics"?
Answer: Moving products from one location to another efficiently
8. What are some of the factors companies consider when choosing a facility
location?
Answer: Access to skilled labor
9. What is concerned with transforming a range of inputs into those outputs
that are required by the market?
Answer: Production
10. In process-oriented and fixed-position layouts, it is important to minimize
the costs of:
Answer: Material handling
11. What is another name for Work Study?
Answer: Time and Motion Study
12. Which statement shows the end items to be produced, the quantity of each,
and the dates they are to be completed?
Answer: Master Production Schedule
13. Where is Operations Management applicable?
Answer: To all firms, whether manufacturing or service
14. Which type of maintenance is performed on broken machines to restore
them to working order?
Answer: Breakdown maintenance
15. __________ items are the materials which are highly susceptible to fire.
Answer: Inflammable
16. _____________ materials are the materials including wrapping materials.
Answer: Packaging
17. Material shortages or delays can affect __________.
Answer: Production, Delivery, Service
18. Resource allocations and distributive efficiencies in the mix of capital and
labour investment will vary per industry.
Answer: True
19. The outcome of business operations is the harvesting of value from assets
owned by a business.
Answer: True
20. A business whose revenues are sufficiently greater than its expenses makes
profit of incomes.
Answer: True
Case Study-Based Questions:
1. What key issues were identified as affecting productivity in the garment
manufacturing factory?
Answer:
o Delayed start times
o Inadequate space between machines
2. What measures were implemented to improve productivity in the factory?
Answer:
o Reorganizing the layout for better space utilization
o Integrating helper tasks into the assembly line
3. Which factors contributed to the improvement of work pace in the factory?
Answer:
o Providing suitable tools to operators
o Training and support for operators
4. What was the outcome of implementing the work study in the garment
factory?
Answer:
o Reduced manpower without compromising output
o Improved work-in-progress management
o Establishment of a work study department
5. Which changes were made to address work-in-progress (WIP) management
in the factory?
Answer:
o Implementing a bundle system to control WIP levels
o Improving visibility of work progress on the production line
