1. The textbook underscores the importance of scheduling with the phrase “workflow equals cash flow and scheduling lies at the heart of the process.” True False 2. A work center is a physical area of the business in which productive resources are organized and work is completed. True False 3. A system that “backward schedules” is designed to determine and report the earliest date an order can be completed. True False 4. A backward schedule tells when an order must be started in order to be done by a specific date. True False 5. In finite loading no consideration is given directly to whether there is sufficient capacity at the resources required to complete the work nor is the actual sequence of the work as done by each resource in the work center considered. True False 6. In infinite loading no consideration is given directly to whether there is sufficient capacity at the resources required to complete the work nor is the actual sequence of the work as done by each resource in the work center considered. True False 7. Theoretically all schedules are feasible when finite loading is used. True False 8. Initiating performance of scheduled work is commonly termed “dispatching” of orders. True False 9. Shop-floor control (or production activity control) can involve reviewing the status and controlling the progress of orders as they are being worked on. True False 10. Shop-floor control (or production activity control) can involve expediting late and critical orders. True False 11. In production scheduling the process of determining which job to start first on some machine or in some work center is known as sequencing or priority sequencing. True False 12. Priority rules are the rules used to obtain a job sequence in production scheduling. True False 13. The FCFS priority rule used in sequencing production jobs will always result in a better solution than the LCFS rule. True False 14. Using the random order or “whim” priority rule to sequence production jobs means that supervisors or operators select whichever job they feel like running. True False
