OREGON DSC 335 Winter 2013 Ch 7 Constraint Management- FILL UPS 117 TO 128

FILL In THE BLANK117. A(n) ____________ is an operation that has the lowest effective capacity of any operation in the process, and thus limits the system’s output.118. ____________ is the total time taken from the start to the finish of a process.119. Variability of a firm’s workload may create ____________.120. With TOC, ____________ are scheduled to maximize their throughput of products while adhering to promised completion dates.121. Instead of producing products with the highest profit margins, operations managers should focus on the ____________ generated at the ____________ .122. ____________ is a planning and control system that regulates the flow of work-in-process materials at the bottleneck or the capacity constrained resource in a productive system.123. Every time a manufacturer uses one resource, they make a lot size of 300. Once a group of 30 units are completed, they are taken to the next step in the process. The lot of 300 is the ____________ and the group of 30 is the ____________.124. ____________ is the maximum time allowed for work on a unit at each station.125. ____________ is the amount by which efficiency falls short of 100 percent.126. Regardless of the number of tasks or their lengths, a line balance efficiency of 100% is possible if the number of stations is ____________.127. A(n) ____________ line is a product line that produces several items belonging to the same family.128. The movement of product from one station to the next as soon as the cycle time has elapsed is called ____________.