Technology Today and Tomorrow ©2004

Chapter 11: Production

Production


1.	In manufacturing, inspection means comparing a part, an assembly, or a finished good to
		A)	the preceding item on the line.
		B)	a predefined standard.
		C)	the first item to come off the line.
		D)	a picture of that item.


2.	Each individual part of a product is called a(n)
		A)	assembly.
		B)	subassembly.
		C)	component.
		D)	module.


3.	The practice of randomly checking a few items rather than every one during inspection is called
		A)	production control.
		B)	final assembly.
		C)	acceptance sampling.
		D)	testing tolerance.


4.	Product packaging is not likely to display
		A)	a bar code.
		B)	a company logo.
		C)	attractive graphics.
		D)	inspection statistics.


5.	The ISO and ANSI promote and coordinate
		A)	manufacturing-friendly legislative efforts in Congress.
		B)	good relations among manufacturers and their suppliers.
		C)	standards for manufacturing practices.
		D)	marketing of manufactured products.


6.	Finished electronic products are operated in the factory for several hours, in a process called
		A)	debugging.
		B)	go/no go testing.
		C)	burn-in.
		D)	automatic processing.


7.	Inventory control keeps track of
		A)	work in progress on the factory floor.
		B)	materials, parts, supplies, and finished goods on-site.
		C)	all finished goods, whether on-site or in stores.
		D)	workers required for a production run.


8.	Connected components that collectively become a component later in production are
		A)	subassemblies.
		B)	finished assemblies.
		C)	raw materials.
		D)	manufactured units.


9.	Where product flaws are concerned, why is prevention a better strategy than detection?
		A)	Detection is less costly, but prevention is more reliable.
		B)	Most flaws detected in finished products cannot be fixed.
		C)	Prevention is almost always less costly than detection.
		D)	Engineers do not like getting involved in problems at the end of a production run.


10.	Collecting, arranging, and analyzing numerical facts about ongoing production in a factory is termed
		A)	statistical process control.
		B)	specification enforcement.
		C)	burn-in.
		D)	acceptance sampling.