Test Bank For Operations Management 5th Edition Canadian By William J. Stevenson

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Test Bank For Operations Management 5th Edition Canadian By William J. Stevenson

Chapter 05 Strategic Capacity Planning

1. The term capacity is the upper limit on the workload an operating unit can handle.

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2. Capacity decisions are always long-term decisions.

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3. If a company produces a variety of outputs, capacity has to be expressed as several partial measures; no overall measure of capacity is possible.

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4. Capacity decisions often involve a long-term commitment of resources which, when implemented, are difficult or impossible to modify without major added costs.

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5. Stating capacity in dollar amounts generally results in a consistent measure of capacity.

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6. Design capacity refers to the maximum output rate under ideal conditions.

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7. Design capacity refers to the maximum output rate possible given a product mix, operating hours, and machine maintenance.

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8. Efficiency is defined as the ratio of actual output to effective capacity.

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9. As utilization increases the number of jobs/people waiting in an operating system decreases.

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10. Facilities are a major factor influencing effective capacity.

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11. The more uniform the mix of products being produced, the more opportunity there is to increase the effective capacity of the system.

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12. Evaluation of capacity alternatives involves economic calculations only.

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13. As forecasts are usually only accurate for the short term, forecasts are not useful in long-term capacity decisions.

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14. Capacity increases are usually acquired in fairly large “chunks” rather than smooth increments.

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15. In break-even analysis, costs that vary directly with volume of output are referred to as fixed costs because they are fixed to the level of output.

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16. The break-even quantity can be determined by dividing the fixed costs by the difference between the revenue per unit and the variable cost per unit.

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17. Among the assumptions of break-even analysis is that the variable cost per unit remains the same regardless of quantity of output.

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