This document contains a 15 question multiple choice quiz about material handling and manufacturing systems. The questions cover topics like material handling activities, types of production lines, flexible manufacturing systems, and part classification systems. Correct answers are required for full credit on the quiz.

1. DEPT. OF AERO & AUTO ENGG MIT,MANIPAL
Multiple Choice Quiz- Assignment IV
1. Material handling is usually associated with activities that occur inside a facility
and not with transportation between facilities involving rail, truck, air, or waterway
delivery of goods: (a) true or (b) false?
2. Fixed routing is associated with which of the following types of manufacturing
systems (two best answers): (a) automated production lines, (b) automated storage
systems, (c) cellular manufacturing systems, (d) flexible manufacturing systems, (e)
job shops, and (f) manual assembly lines?
3. Which of the following types of material handling equipment are typically used in a
process type plant layout (two best answers): (a) conveyors, (b) cranes and hoists,
(c) fork lift trucks, and (d) rail-guided vehicles?
4. Of the mechanized methods of work transport used on production lines, a
synchronous transfer system consists of a continuously moving conveyor that
operates at a constant velocity: (a) true or (b) false?
5. Batch model production lines are most suited to which one of the following
production situations: (a) job shop, (b) mass production, or (c) medium production?
6. A mixed model line is a production line in which different models are intermixed
on the same line, so that while one model is being processed at one station, a
different model is being processed at the next station: (a) true or (b) false?
7. The transfer line is most closely associated with which one of the following types
of production operations: (a) assembly, (b) automotive chassis fabrication, (c)
machining, (d) pressworking, or (e) spot welding?
8. Production flow analysis is a method of identifying part families that uses data from
which one of the following sources: (a) bill of materials, (b) engineering drawings,
(c) master schedule, (d) production schedule, or (e) route sheets?
9. Most parts classification and coding systems are based on which of the following
types of part attributes (two best answers): (a) annual production rate, (b) date of
design, (c) design, (d) manufacturing, and (e) weight?
10. What is the dividing line between a manufacturing cell and a flexible
manufacturing system (one best answer): (a) two machines, (b) four machines, or
(c) six machines?
11. A machine capable of producing different part styles in a batch mode of operation
qualifies as a flexible manufacturing system: (a) true or (b) false?
12. The physical layout of a flexible manufacturing system is determined principally by
which one of the following: (a) computer system, (b) material handling system, (c)
part family, (d) processing equipment, or (e) weight of parts processed?
13. In general, industrial robots can most easily handle which one of the following part
types in a flexible machining system: (a) heavy parts, (b) metal parts, (c)
nonrotational parts, (d) plastic parts, or (e) rotational parts?
14. Flexible manufacturing systems and cells are generally applied in which one of the
following areas: (a) high-variety, low-volume production, (b) low variety, (c) low
volume, (d) mass production, (e) medium-volume, medium-variety production?
15. Which one of the following technologies is most closely associated with flexible
machining systems: (a) lasers, (b) machine vision, (c) manual assembly lines, (d)
numerical control, or (f) transfer lines