Chapter 8 Capacity, Scheduling and Location Planning

5. After a region of a new facility has been selected, candidate communities within the region are identified for further analysis.

6. In addition to showing time schedules, Gantt charts can also be used for capacities of facilities, workers, jobs, activities, and so forth.

7. Rough-cut capacity planning projects job orders and demands for materials into requirements for equipment, work force, and facility to find total capacity of each over the planning horizon.

8. In the allocation of capacity, overbooking is an attempt to reduce costs through better schedule management.

9. Bottlenecks are places in the production process where production slows down because of a slow or insufficient number of resources.

10. Efficiency is defined as input divided by output.

11. The cycle time of the process is the reciprocal of the output rate.

12. The learning curve is the ability programmed in robots to increase their productive capacity through learning.

13. Uncertain waiting is longer than known, finite waiting.

Short Answer

1. Organizations such as makers of greeting cards, of summer or winter products and of fireworks face a cyclic difficulty referred to as _________.

2. The physical release of a work order from the production planning and control department to operations is called ___________.

3. The more __________ the service, the longer it is worth waiting for.