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The work directed toward the innovation, introduction and improvement of products and sservices is called?
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Research and Developement (R&D)
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The creation of goods and services using the factors of production and manufacturing is called?
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Production
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The term used to describe the activities managers do to help there firms create goods is called
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Production management
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Prouction has been replaced with ____________ to refelect both goods and services.
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Operations
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An specialized area of management that transforms inputs into outputs is called?
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Operations managment
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Selection a geographic location for operations is called?
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Facility location
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The physical arrangement of resources in the production process is called
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Facility layout
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Unlike assembly line layout, when teams of workers combine to produce more complex units of the final products it is called?
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Modular layout
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When similar equiptment and functions are grouped together the layout is called?
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A process layout
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When workers are allowed to congregate around the product with increased individual training and workload and reduce employee number, the layout is called?
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Fixed-position layout
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A company that consistently produces the product wanted by customers and reduces the the errors involved creates?
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Quality
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When only 3.4 defects per million oppertunities is produced, a company is following a
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Six sigma quality scheme
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When all phases of production are continually monitored by managers, the managers are practising
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Statistical quality control (SQC)
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When managers take statistical samples of product components and plot them on a graph, they are using
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Statistical process Control (SPC) "Deming cycle"
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The cycle steps of PDCA are?
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Plan do check act
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