Operations Management Systems: Pre-lecture Questions

This document covers pre-lecture questions related to Operations Management Systems including operations as a transformation process, major decision-making processes, competitiveness of business organization, productivity, influence of non-economic factors on make-or-buy decisions, types of processes, line balancing, job design and methods analysis, stopwatch time study, determinants of quality, costs of quality, quality-productivity ratio, control chart: c-chart, aggregate planning, strategies of aggregate planning, available-to-promise inventory, rough-cut capacity planning, material requirement planning MRP I, MRP: Outputs, lot sizing in MRP processing, capacity requirement planning, MRP II and ERP, ultimate goal of lean operation, waste in lean systems, design and operation of lean system, SMED (Single-minute exchange of die) relation with lean operation, difference between push systems and pull systems, Kanban Calculation, and significance of Operation Management.