Question

5. Which one of the following concepts is not involved when implementing total quality control?

1. Workers being given responsibility
2. Enforce compliance
3. Fail-safe methods
4. Automatic inspection
5. Level schedule the factory

14. Which one of the following are suggestions for developing a focus forecasting system?

1. Use a seasonality index.
2. Keep rules simple.
3. Keep the people using the forecasts separate from those who make the forecasts.
4. The faster the growth, the higher the tracking signal.

Set control limits that will keep the forecasters honest.

16. Which one of the following methodologies is used to cost out various production planning alternatives in order to select the one that is best?

1. Cut-and-dry charting
2. Materials requirement planning
3. Capacity requirements planning
4. Order scheduling
5. Process planning

Answer 1

5) D) Automatic inspection.

Deming in his 14 points of TQM describes that workers don't have to depend on the inspection of the products and process to remove error and rather they can achieve quality by doing the right thing at the first time itself. This way, an organization don't need any inspection to to improve the quality.

14) B) Keep rules simple.

The concept of focus forecasting is focusing on the past method of forecasting. Smith describes that it is important to keep the rules simple and only focus on the past rules to which were used in the forecasting. This way employees would know how the past forecasting was performed and thereby can follow the same in future.

16) A) Cut-and-try charting.

This approach is used by the companies to develop aggregate plans. It makes the decision making process smooth. This method is used to determine the total cost of the various Production planning alternatives so that the company can select the best fit among all.

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