Final check — Plant operations management: performance, capacity and assets

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Question 1In IEC 62264-1, what is Level 3?Manufacturing operations management, between enterprise planning and equipment controlThe individual sensor network onlyExternal financial auditThe corporate brand strategy only

Question 2What does IEC 62264-3 add?Activity models of manufacturing operations management, including production, maintenance, quality and inventoryA mandatory bonus schemeA replacement for ISO 9001Customs tariff codes

Question 3What does ISO 22400-2 specify for its selected KPIs?A single legal emissions limitPersonal performance ratingsOnly a marketing sloganFormula and elements, time behaviour, unit, user group and related production methodology

Question 4A composed equipment index meets the site aim, but one element is deteriorating. What should you do?Show the elements separately and act on the deteriorating oneInvent a second shadow KPI for the reviewStop measuring for a monthHide the element and celebrate the composite

Question 5How should an operations manager state plant capacity to planning?As last year’s turnover in currencyAs the theoretical nameplate only, ignoring changeovers and maintenanceAs demonstrated capacity after planned changeovers, maintenance windows and known lossesAs whatever sales has already promised

Question 6The site meets shipments only by unplanned Saturday work every week. What is that Saturday work?Proof that nameplate capacity was conservativeA reason to stop all maintenanceA formal increase in demonstrated weekday capacityAn unrecorded capacity buffer that should be made visible to planning

Question 7What does ISO 55001:2024 specify?Requirements for an asset management system, including decision-making and realizing valueA single global energy priceA forklift driving licenceCustoms valuation rules only

Question 8A planned overhaul is deferred to hit a quarterly budget, with no recorded change in risk. What is missing?A new brand sloganNothing; budget is the only decision criterionA decision framework that balances cost with performance and residual risk, and records the choiceA ban on all maintenance spending

Question 9What caution does US EPA lean-and-environment guidance add to process improvement?That an improvement is incomplete if it only pushes waste, delay or risk elsewhereThat environmental rules do not apply to factoriesThat faster is always betterThat lean tools should never be used

Question 10A changeover is shortened by removing a verification step, and first-hour defects rise. What should the manager do?Keep the shorter time as the only success measureRestore effective verification, re-time the standard with it included, and measure first-hour quality as well as timeStop all changeoversHide the defects in a composite index

Final check — Plant operations management: performance, capacity and assets

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