Manufacturing Metrics MSSC
What type of objective is a measurable goal that allows a company to determine if it is being
successfully? - ✔✔Performance
Which metric drives wage decisions? - ✔✔Value added per employee
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Manufacturing Metrics MSSC
What type of objective is a measurable goal that allows a company to determine if it is being
successfully? - ✔✔Performance
Which metric drives wage decisions? - ✔✔Value added per employee
Machine utilization is a productivity metric used to measure the percentage of time a machine
_____________. - ✔✔Runs
What is the measure of the amount of product produced compared to the amount that could be
produced under ideal conditions? - ✔✔Production efficiency
Overall performance objectives are achieved by the actions of the companies ______________. -
✔✔Employees
What is the most basic productivity metric? - ✔✔Parts produced in an hour by human or
machine
An important statistic is calculated by dividing the number of parts produced by the number of
hours worked. This statistic is called? - ✔✔Labor productivity
Efficiency is directly related to ______________. - ✔✔Productivity
The formula for productivity is the output of goods divided by what? - ✔✔Input of factors of
production
Productivity is a measurement of the efficiency of _______________. - ✔✔Production
Value added per employee is a financial measure of how much product was sold vs. how many
employees worked during this period. Is this statement true or false? - ✔✔True
Which critical success objective requires the manufacturer perform satisfactory over a defined
amount of time under specified conditions? - ✔✔Reliability
To remain competitive, manufacturer's must be low cost producers. T/F - ✔✔True
Production efficiency is the standard produced parts divided by the actual produced parts. How is
the standard determined? - ✔✔The standard is the amount produced under ideal conditions
The measure of the work or a process can be defined as_____________. - ✔✔Performance
metric
Which of the following is not a reason for measuring machine utilization? - ✔✔To identify ways
to decrease production
Which critical success objective requires that the manufacturing adapt resources and processes to
meet changing demands? - ✔✔Flexibility
Productivity is a relative measure. What does this mean? - ✔✔It needs to be compared to
something else to have value
Speed in delivering products is not as important as the other crucial success objectives for
manufacturer's. Is this T/F - ✔✔False
Productivity can be calculated by ____________ the number of parts produced by the time
elapsed during the production. - ✔✔Dividing
The definition of quality is providing error free goods and services that meet or exceed the
expectations of the customers. T/F - ✔✔True
Complete the value added per employee formula: Number of products sold x price per unit
divided by ______________. - ✔✔Number of employees
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