Question 1

There are four manufacturing companies located on Seashell Industrial Estate. Each company creates a different product and employs a different maintenance approach to its operations. For each company, select the corresponding maintenance approach and the key operating process characteristic.

Company 1: This company creates craft beer and offers customers a tour of the brewery for a small charge. The brewing equipment is serviced monthly and the brewery is kept extremely clean. All equipment is labelled with the last service date.

Company 2: This company produces seasonal items such as Easter Eggs and Christmas Cake. The equipment has a control panel where lights will flash red advising staff to check oil levels and components. Staff can then report issues to the maintenance team if remedial work is required. Product demand fluctuates throughout the year.

Company 3: This equipment does not often break down and is only fixed when it is reported by staff as no longer working. Company 3 creates toys, providing a large range of product sizes and colours based on different customer requirements.

Company 4: Parts of the machine are serviced quarterly but in general, the machine is left to run its course and is then replaced when it is no longer financially viable to fix. The company produces cereal and the operating process is focused on the quantity produced and therefore uses standardised processes.

Complete the table below by listing the maintenance approach and operating process characteristic for each company. Each response should only be used once: preventative maintenance, run to breakdown maintenance, condition-based maintenance, mixed maintenance, volume, visibility, variation, variety

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Which of the following will you put into box 4?

Options :

A : preventative maintenance

B :

run-to-breakdown maintenance

C : condition-based maintenance

D : mixed maintenance

Answer: D

Question 2

Khaled has recently been hired as an Operations Manager at a company providing consultancy services. This is his first role in the service industry, previously he has worked at companies providing goods. He understands that services are intangible and therefore there is a difference in how Operations may be managed. Which of the following sentences about services are true? Select THREE

Options :

A : there is a transfer of ownership when purchasing a service

B : services cannot be stored, unlike goods

C : it is not possible to return a service

D :

there is no variability in services

E : production and consumption occur simultaneously

Answer: A,B,C

Question 3

What is the end purpose of introducing a Total Quality Management process to the operations department of an organisation?

Options :

A : customer satisfaction

B : reducing costs

C : zero defects

D : increasing market share

Answer: A

Question 4

Below are details of five companies who operate a Total Quality Management System (TQM). For each company, select the system used and identify which area of the Balanced Scorecard this relates to.

Company 1: The focus of this company is to gather real-time data to assess the quality of products created during the manufacturing process. There are tight budgets and reworking any defects will affect the bottom line.

Company 2: This company is concerned about how their products are received. They have recently completed market research focused on their client’s feelings. The objective is now to improve the product’s look and performance to meet these expectations.

Company 3: The focus of this company is defining the customer requirements and translating this into a high-quality specification and effective operational process.

Company 4: Within this company there is a group of 6 employees who meet regularly with the objective of reducing issues that arise in the manufacturing of products.

Complete the table below by listing the TQM System used and the relevant Balanced Scorecard criteria for each company. Each response should only be used once: Quality Circle, Statistical Process Control, Kansei Engineering, Quality Function Deployment, Finance Criteria, Business Process Criteria, Learning and Growth Criteria, Customer Criteria.

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Which of the following will you put into box 7?

Options :

A : finance criteria

B : business process criteria

C : learning and growth criteria

D : customer criteria

Answer: B

Question 5

Which of the following are considered 'transformed resources' and an input into the Operations Process (input- process-output)? Select THREE

Options :

A : customers

B : raw materials

C : employees

D : money

E : information

Answer: A,B

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