Operations Management Chapter 5

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1. Regal Marine's attempts to keep in touch with customers and respond to the marketplace are made impossible because consumer tastes change and maritime engineering improves. False (Introduction, easy) A product strategy may focus on differentiation, low-cost, or rapid response. True (Introduction, easy) The goal of the product decision is to develop and implement a product strategy that meets the needs of the marketplace with a competitive advantage. True (Introduction, moderate) Political/legal change and economic change are both factors influencing market opportunities for new products. True (Goods and services selection, easy) The four phases of the product life cycle are incubation, introduction, growth, and decline. False (Goods and services selection, moderate) In the maturity stage of the product life cycle, operations managers will be concerned with keeping sufficient capacity available for the product. False (Goods and services selection, moderate) Relatively few new product ideas, perhaps only 1 in 250, become successfully marketed products. True (Goods and services selection, moderate) 3M’s goal is to produce 30% of its profit from products introduced in the last 4 years. True (Introduction, difficult) Computer-aided design (CAD) refers to the use of specialized computer programs to direct and control manufacturing equipment. False (Generating new products, moderate) {AACSB: Use of IT} Virtual reality technology can improve designs less expensively than the use of physical models or prototypes. True (Generating new products, moderate) {AACSB: Use of IT} Quality function deployment refers to first, determining what will satisfy the customer, and second, translating the customers’ desires into a target design. True (Product development, moderate) Robust design is a method that ensures that small variation in production or assembly does not adversely affect the product. True (Issues for...