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Chapter 4 Product Design Full Test Bank

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True/False

  1. Product design has a tremendous impact on the quality of a manufactured good or service.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: LO 1

Bloom’s: Comprehension

  1. Dismantling and inspecting a competitor’s product to identify design features that might be used to improve your own product is known as reverse engineering.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: LO 1

Bloom’s: Knowledge

  1. An effective design process matches product characteristics with customer requirements.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: LO 1

Bloom’s: Knowledge

  1. Companies learn from their competitors by
    1. perceptual maps
    2. benchmarking
    3. reverse engineering
    4. all of these answer choices are correct

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: LO 1

Bloom’s: Knowledge: Knowledge

  1. Creating preliminary design models that are quickly tested and either discarded or further refined is known as rapid prototyping.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: LO 1

Bloom’s: Knowledge

  1. Form design refers to the physical appearance of a product.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: LO 1

Bloom’s: Knowledge

  1. A product’s reliability is a function of the reliabilities of its component parts, but not a function of how those parts are arranged.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: LO 1

Bloom’s: Comprehension

  1. To increase system reliability redundant parts can be built in to back up a failure.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: LO 1

Bloom’s: Comprehension

  1. Products assembled in modules can be easier to repair and maintain.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: LO 1

Bloom’s: Comprehension

  1. All of the following performance characteristics of functional design except
    1. reliability
    2. mean time to repair
    3. maintainability
    4. usability

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: LO 1

Bloom’s: Knowledge

  1. _________________ is one way to gain the benefits of standardization without losing the advantage of variety and uniqueness.
    1. design for manufacturing
    2. design for supply chain
    3. production design
    4. modular design

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: LO 1

Bloom’s: Comprehension

  1. Modular design combines standardized building blocks, or modules, to create unique finished products.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: LO 1

Bloom’s: Knowledge

  1. Design for manufacturing (DFM) guidelines promote
    1. ease of use for customers
    2. using more parts and subassemblies
    3. ease of assembly
    4. sustainable products

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: LO 1

Bloom’s: Knowledge

  1. The final design consists of detailed drawings and specifications for the new product.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: LO 1

Bloom’s: Knowledge

  1. Concurrent design utilizes all of the following except
    1. involving the supplier in the design process
    2. simultaneous design of products and processes
    3. cross-functional teams
    4. rapid prototyping

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: LO 1

Bloom’s: Knowledge

  1. Establishing multifunctional design teams can help reduce the time-to-market.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: LO 1

Bloom’s: Comprehension

  1. Concurrent design may involve simultaneously designing products and their production processes.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: LO 1

Bloom’s: Knowledge

  1. Concurrent design is often aided by the use of technology.

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: LO 1

Bloom’s: Knowledge

  1. One of the factors supporting the increase in new products has been advances in the technology available for designing products.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: LO 2

Bloom’s: Comprehension

  1. Product lifecyle management stores, retrieves, and updates design data from which stages?
    1. product concept
    2. service
    3. retirement
    4. all of the these answer choices are correct

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: LO 3

Bloom’s: Comprehension

  1. Computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) has replaced computer-aided design (CAD) in the product design process.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: LO 2

Bloom’s: Knowledge

  1. Collaborative product design (CPD) software provides interconnectivity among members of a product’s supply chain.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: LO 2

Bloom’s: Knowledge

  1. Which of the following techniques are used in design quality reviews?
    1. fault tree analysis
    2. computer aided design (CAD)
    3. computer aided manufacturing (CAM)
    4. collaborative product design

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: LO 3

Bloom’s: Knowledge

  1. Computer-aided design (CAD) produces better products but always increases the time to design them.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: LO 2

Bloom’s: Comprehension

  1. Value analysis is often utilized by a multifunctional product design team as part of design review.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: LO 3

Bloom’s: Comprehension

  1. Which of the following are principles of design for environment except?
    1. using recycled materials
    2. treating workers fairly
    3. easily repaired products
    4. minimizing unnecessary packaging

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: LO 5

Bloom’s: Knowledge

  1. Extended producer responsibility (EPR) is a concept that holds consumers responsible for their products following the products’ useful lives.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: LO 4

Bloom’s: Comprehension

  1. Quality function deployment (QFD) consists of a series of matrix diagrams that define product design changes and the ramifications of implementing those changes.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: LO 5

Bloom’s: Knowledge

  1. The house of quality converts customer requirements into
    1. voice of the customer
    2. failure mode effects analysis
    3. Taguchi' quality loss function
    4. product design specifications

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: LO 6

Bloom’s: Knowledge

  1. __________________ is a concept of incorporating the voice of the customer into technical product design.
    1. quality function deployment
    2. concurrent design
    3. value analysis
    4. maintainability

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: LO 6

Bloom’s: Knowledge

  1. Quality Function Deployment (QFD) translates the voice of the customer into technical design requirements.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: LO 6

Bloom’s: Knowledge

  1. Products designed to withstand variations in operating conditions are said to be robust.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: LO 6

Bloom’s: Knowledge

  1. The allowable range of the variation in a part’s design specification is called the signal-to-noise ratio.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: LO 6

Bloom’s: Knowledge

  1. Reliability is the probability that a given part or product will perform its intended function for a specified length of time under adverse operating conditions.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: LO 6

Bloom’s: Knowledge

Multiple Choice

  1. Design can provide a competitive edge by
    1. bringing products to market quickly.
    2. doing an even better job of satisfying customers.
    3. being easier to manufacture, use and repair.
    4. All these answer choices are correct.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: LO 1

Bloom’s: Comprehension

  1. Which of the following is not a characteristic of an effective product design process?
  2. matches product characteristics with customer requirements
  3. maximizes the revisions necessary to make a design workable
  4. ensures that customer requirements are met in the least costly and simplest manner
  5. reduces the time required to design a new product or service

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: LO 1

Bloom’s: Application

  1. All of the following are characteristics of an effective design process except
  2. increasing the design time for new products and services.
  3. meeting customer requirements in the least costly manner.
  4. matching product or service characteristics with customer requirements.
  5. minimizing the number of revisions needed to make the design workable.

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: LO 1

Bloom’s: Application

  1. Product design begins with
  2. a feasibility study.
  3. a form design.
  4. understanding the customer and identifying customer needs.
  5. pilot runs and final tests.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: LO 1

Bloom’s: Knowledge

  1. If a firm’s design process is too lengthy
    1. a competitor may capture market share by being first to market.
    2. a competitor may lose market share by being first to market.
    3. a competitor may decide not to enter the market.
    4. None of these answers is correct.

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: LO 1

Bloom’s: Application

  1. Carefully dismantling and inspecting a competitor’s product to look for design features that can be incorporated into your own product is known as
  2. concurrent design.
  3. design for manufacturability.
  4. benchmarking.
  5. reverse engineering.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: LO 1

Bloom’s: Knowledge

  1. A feasibility study consists of all the following except
    1. a market analysis.
    2. an economic analysis.
    3. a technical and strategic analysis.
    4. a concurrent analysis.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: LO 1

Bloom’s: Knowledge

  1. ____________________ describe(s) what the product should do to satisfy customer needs.
    1. Performance specifications
    2. Benchmarks
    3. Perceptual maps
    4. Reverse engineering

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: LO 1

Bloom’s: Knowledge

  1. Creating a preliminary design that can be quickly tested and then either discarded or further refined is referred to as
  2. Benchmarking.
  3. rapid prototyping.
  4. concurrent design.
  5. perceptual mapping.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: LO 1

Bloom’s: Knowledge

  1. The probability that a product will perform its intended function for a specified length of time under normal conditions is called
  2. benchmarking.
  3. perceptual mapping.
  4. Maintainability.
  5. Reliability.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: LO 1

Bloom’s: Knowledge

  1. Which of the following is a quantitative measure of reliability?
  2. reliability bar
  3. maintainability
  4. mean time between failures (MTBF)
  5. mean time to repair (MTTR)

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: LO 1

Bloom’s: Application

  1. All of the following can improve a product’s reliability except
  2. simplifying product design.
  3. improving individual component reliability.
  4. changing the product warranty.
  5. adding redundant components..

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: LO 1

Bloom’s: Analysis

  1. Combining standardized building blocks in different ways to create unique finished products is known as
  2. rapid prototyping.
  3. robust design.
  4. modular design.
  5. concurrent design.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: LO 1

Bloom’s: Knowledge

  1. A company produces a product consisting of two components arranged as follows:

0.93

0.95

If both components must function for the product to function, then the product’s overall reliability is

  1. 0.950
  2. 0.940
  3. 0.930
  4. 0.884

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: LO 1

Bloom’s: Application

  1. A company produces a product consisting of two components arranged as follows:

0.97

0.90

Both components must function for the product to function. To achieve an overall reliability of at least 0.95 without changing the reliability of the first component, the reliability of the second component would need to be

  1. at least 0.925 .
  2. at least 0.95.
  3. at least 0.97.
  4. at least 0.98.

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: LO 1

Bloom’s: Application

  1. A company produces a product consisting of two components arranged as follows:

R2

R1

If both components must function for the product to function, then the two components would need individual reliabilities of _______ to achieve an overall reliability of 0.90.

  1. R1 = 0.90 and R2 = 0.90
  2. R1 = 0.95 and R2 = 0.95
  3. R1 = 0.80 and R2 = 0.80
  4. R1 = 0.85 and R2 = 0.85

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: LO 1

Bloom’s: Application

  1. A product consists of three components arranged as follows:

R1 = 0.95

R2 = 0.90

R3 = 0.95

If all three components must function for the product to function, then the product’s overall reliability is approximately

  1. 0.812.
  2. 0.90.
  3. 0.933.
  4. 0.95.

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: LO 1

Bloom’s: Application

  1. The overall reliability of the following system is

0.90

0.95

0.95

0.95

  1. greater than 1.00.
  2. 0.95.
  3. 0.90.
  4. 0.898.

Difficulty: Hard

Learning Objective: LO 1

Bloom’s: Evaluation

  1. For the overall reliability of the following system to be 0.975 or greater the reliability of the backup component, Rb, must be

Rb =?

0.99

0.99

0.95

  1. at least 1.00.
  2. at least 0.896.
  3. at least 0.736.
  4. at least 0.534.

Difficulty: Hard

Learning Objective: LO 1

Bloom’s: Synthesis

  1. The overall reliability of the following system is

0.85

0.89

0.93

0.94

0.90

  1. 0.787.
  2. 0.85.
  3. 0.89.
  4. 0.919.

Difficulty: Hard

Learning Objective: LO 1

Bloom’s: Evaluation

  1. A product consists of three components arranged as follows:

R1 =

?

R2 = 0.94

R3 = 0.98

If all three components must function for the product to function, and the product’s overall reliability must be at least 0.92, then the reliability of the first component, R1, must be

  1. at least 0.999.
  2. at least 0.84.
  3. at least 0.96.
  4. at least 0.972.

Difficulty: Hard

Learning Objective: LO 1

Bloom’s: Synthesis

  1. If a product fails 10 times in 500 hours of operation, then its mean time between failures (MTBF) is
  2. 0.02 hour.
  3. 0.10 hour.
  4. 20 hours.
  5. 50 hours.

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: LO 1

Bloom’s: Application

  1. If a piece of equipment has a mean time between failures (MTBF) of 500 hours with a mean time to repair (MTTR) of 10 hours, then its uptime or average availability would be
  2. 0.020 or 2.00%
  3. 0.980 or 98.00%
  4. 0.500 or 50.00%
  5. 1.000 or 100.00%

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: LO 1

Bloom’s: Analysis

  1. The system availability for a system with a mean time between failures (MTBF) of 1000 hours and a mean time to repair (MTTR) of 50 hours would be
  2. 100.00%
  3. 97.50%
  4. 95.24%
  5. 4.76%

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: LO 1

Bloom’s: Analysis

  1. Which of the following will not improve design for manufacture and assembly?
  2. minimizing the number of parts and subassemblies
  3. using standard parts when possible
  4. designing parts for limited, unique uses
  5. designing parts for many, varied uses

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: LO 1

Bloom’s: Comprehension

  1. _____________________ involves taking into account the capabilities at each level of the supply chain when designing a product.
    1. Design for supplier
    2. Design for manufacturer
    3. Design for supply chain
    4. Design for competitor

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: LO 1

Bloom’s: Comprehension

  1. Functional design includes all the following except
  2. reliability.
  3. usability.
  4. form design.
  5. maintainability.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: LO 1

Bloom’s: Comprehension

  1. Simultaneously designing new products and the processes to produce them is known as
  2. concurrent design.
  3. functional design.
  4. modular design.
  5. standard design.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: LO 1

Bloom’s: Knowledge

  1. ____________________ is a software system that facilitates collaborative design and development among trading partners.
    1. Computer aided design
    2. Collaborative product design
    3. Computer aided engineering
    4. None of these answer choices is correct.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: LO 2
Bloom’s: Knowledge

  1. ____________________ is a software system that assists in the creation, modification and analysis of design.
    1. Computer aided design
    2. Collaborative product design
    3. Computer aided engineering
    4. None of these answer choices is correct.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: LO 2

Bloom’s: Knowledge

  1. ____________________ is a software system that retrieves the description and geometry of a design from a database, and tests and analyzes that design on a computer screen.
    1. Computer aided design
    2. Collaborative product design
    3. Computer aided engineering
    4. None of these answer choices is correct.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: LO 2

Bloom’s: Knowledge

  1. ____________________ is a software system that stores, retrieves and updates design data through the lifecycle of a product.
    1. Computer aided design
    2. Collaborative product design
    3. Computer aided engineering
    4. None of these answer choices is correct.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: LO 2

Bloom’s: Knowledge

  1. Product lifecycle management is a software system that
    1. facilitates collaborative design and development among trading partners.
    2. stores, retrieves and updates design data through the lifecycle of a product.
    3. retrieves the description and geometry of a design from a database, and tests and analyzes that design on a computer screen.
    4. assists in the creation, modification and analysis of design.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: LO 2

Bloom’s: Comprehension

  1. Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) is
  2. a software systems that uses computer graphics to assist in designing products.
  3. a systematic approach to analyzing the causes and effects of product failures.
  4. a visual method for analyzing the interrelationships among failures.
  5. a structured process that translates the voice of the customer into technical design requirements.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: LO 3

Bloom’s: Comprehension

  1. Fault tree analysis (FTA) is
  2. a software systems that uses computer graphics to assist in designing products.
  3. a systematic approach to analyzing the causes and effects of product failures.
  4. a visual method for analyzing the interrelationships among failures.
  5. a structured process that translates the voice of the customer into technical design requirements.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: LO 3

Bloom’s: Knowledge

  1. __________________________ is a procedure, used by multifunction design teams, to eliminate unnecessary features and functions from a product design.
    1. Failure mode and effects analysis
    2. Value analysis
    3. Fault tree analysis
    4. All of these answer choices are correct.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: LO 3

Bloom’s: Knowledge

  1. Which of the following techniques would most likely be used to systematically analyze product failures?
  2. concurrent design
  3. quality function deployment
  4. failure mode and effects analysis
  5. value analysis

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: LO 3

Bloom’s: Comprehension

  1. The ability to meet present needs without compromising those of future generations is a concept in product design known as

a. reusability.

b. maintainability.

c. reliability.

d. sustainability.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: LO 4

Bloom’s: Knowledge

  1. All of the following are principles of green product design except
  2. use new materials.
  3. use less materials.
  4. involve the entire supply chain.
  5. change the paradigm of design.

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: LO 4

Bloom’s: Application

  1. ___________________ is a concept where companies are held responsible for their product even after its useful life.
  2. Design for disposal or reuse
  3. Sustainability
  4. Extended producer responsibility
  5. Environmentally safe people

Ans. C

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: LO 4

Bloom’s: Knowledge

  1. With ___________________, consumers are encouraged to use the product efficiently, repair it when possible and dispose of it responsibly.
  2. green sourcing
  3. green manufacture
  4. recycling and reuse
  5. green consumption

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: LO 4

Bloom’s: Comprehension

  1. With ___________________, suppliers are encouraged to suggest more environmentally friendly materials, methods and processes.
  2. green sourcing
  3. green manufacture
  4. recycling and reuse
  5. green consumption

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: LO 4

Bloom’s: Comprehension

  1. Design for the environment includes all the following concepts except
  2. design for disposal or reuse.
  3. sustainability.
  4. extended producer responsibility.
  5. environmentally safe people.

Ans. D

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: LO 4

Bloom’s: Analysis

  1. Quality function deployment (QFD) is
  2. a software systems that uses computer graphics to assist in designing products.
  3. a systematic approach to analyzing the causes and effects of product failures.
  4. a visual method for analyzing the interrelationships among failures.
  5. a structured process that translates the voice of the customer into technical design requirements.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: LO 5

Bloom’s: Knowledge

  1. A structured process that translates the voice of the customer into technical design requirements is known as
    1. quality function deployment (QFD).
    2. failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA).
    3. concurrent design.
    4. robust product design.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: LO 5

Bloom’s: Knowledge

  1. Which of the following is a quantitative measure of maintainability?
  2. design for manufacture (DFM)
  3. mean time to repair (MTTR)
  4. mean time between failures (MTBF)
  5. quality function deployment (QFD)

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: LO 6

Bloom’s: Comprehension

  1. When a product is designed to withstand variations in environmental and operating conditions, it is known as
  2. robust design.
  3. design for change.
  4. design for modification.
  5. design for tolerance.

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: LO 6

Bloom’s: Application

  1. The Taguchi Quality Loss Function implies that a
  2. customer’s dissatisfaction increases geometrically as the actual value deviates from the target value.
  3. customer’s satisfaction increases geometrically as the actual value deviates from the target value.
  4. customer’s dissatisfaction decreases geometrically as the actual value deviates from the target value.
  5. customer’s preferences are strongly oriented towards conforming to specifications.

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: LO 6

Bloom’s: Application

  1. As a part of design for robustness, Taguchi believes that
  2. consistent errors can be more easily corrected than random errors.
  3. parts within tolerance limits may produce assemblies that are not within limits.
  4. consumers have a strong preference for product characteristics near their ideal value.
  5. All of these answer choices are correct.

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: LO 6

Bloom’s: Comprehension

Essay

84. Briefly discuss the characteristics of an effective design process.

Level of Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: LO 1

Bloom’s: Comprehension

85. What does a feasibility study consist of and how is it related to the design process?

Learning Objective: LO 1

Level of Difficulty: Medium

Bloom’s: Analysis

  1. Briefly discuss three performance characteristics considered during the functional design phase of a product.

Learning Objective: LO 1

Level of Difficulty: Easy

Bloom’s: Comprehension

87. What role does simplification play in the design process?

Learning Objective: LO 1

Level of Difficulty: medium

Bloom’s: Application

88. List at least four design for manufacture guidelines that promote good design practice.

Learning Objective: LO 1

Level of Difficulty: Medium

Bloom’s: Application

89. List five ways that design quality can be improved.

Learning Objective: LO 1

Level of Difficulty: Medium

Bloom’s: Application

  1. What are some of the questions/inquiries one would ask regarding every material, every part, and every operation in value analysis?

Learning Objective: LO 1

Level of Difficulty: Medium

Bloom’s: Analysis

Multiple Choice

91. In a regional swimming meet, the 4 × 100–meter relay is about to begin. One of the teams of four swimmers went out for dinner last night and unknowingly ate some food that occasionally causes cramps. If a swimmer gets cramps, she can’t continue swimming. Suppose that the likelihood of each swimmer getting cramps is 10%. Then the probability that the team will be able to complete the 4 × 100–meter relay is ________.

  1. 0.90
  2. 0.81
  3. 0.66
  4. 0.50

Ans. C

Difficulty: Medium

AACSB: Reflective thinking

Bloom’s level: Application

Learning Objective: LO2

92. Which of the following statements is false about the reliability of a system?

    1. The product of the mean time between failures (MTBF) and the failure rate is 1
    2. Redundancy decreases reliability.
    3. Increased complexity in the product design decreases reliability.
    4. The reliability of a system with 2 components in parallel with individual reliabilities R1 and R2 is: R1 + R2 – R1 × R2

Ans. B

Difficulty: Hard

AACSB: Reflective thinking

Bloom’s level: Evaluation

Learning Objective: LO2

93. You are evaluating the service availability for two providers. Unfortunately, you don’t know their mean times between failures, MTBF1 and MTBF2, or their mean times to repair, MTTR1 and MTTR2, but you do know the ratios: MTTR1/MTBF1 = 0.05 and MTTTR2/MTBF2 = 0.04. Then ________.

  1. you would choose provider 1, even though you cannot compare the two service availabilities.
  2. you would choose provider 2, even though you cannot compare the two service availabilities.
  3. you would choose provider 1 because its service availability is 95.24%, which is higher than that of provider 2.
  4. you would choose provider 2 because its service availability is 96.15%, which is higher than that of provider 1.

Ans. d

Difficulty: Hard

AACSB: Analytic

Bloom’s level: Evaluation

Learning Objective: LO2

94. You need to evaluate 3 service providers, A, B, and C. Their mean times between failures are 65, 75, and 80 hours respectively. Their mean times to repair are 3, 2, and 1 hours respectively. However, you receive a report that the mean time to repair for provider C is actually larger than 1 hour. What is the maximum value of the mean time to repair of provider C that would make you choose provider C?

    1. 2.1155
    2. 2.1355
    3. 2.1455
    4. 2.1555

Difficulty: Hard

AACSB: Analytic

Bloom’s level: Evaluation

Learning Objective: LO2

95. There are two alternative designs for a system, shown below.

First design:

0.90

x

0.95

0.92

0.90

Second design:

R1 =

0.99

R2 = 0.932

R3 = 0.975

What is the minimum reliability of component x that would make you prefer the first design over the second?

    1. 0.703
    2. 0.723
    3. 0.743
    4. 0.763

Ans. D

Difficulty: Hard

AACSB: Analytic

Bloom’s level: Synthesis

Learning Objective: LO2

96. If a product on average fails 0.5 times in 250 hours of operation, then its mean time between failures (MTBF) is ________.

  1. 0.5 hours
  2. 125 hours
  3. 250 hours
  4. 500 hours

Difficulty: Medium

AACSB: Reflective thinking

Bloom’s level: Application

Learning Objective: LO 2

97. To evaluate the profit potential of a new product, which of the following quantitative techniques is not used?

  1. Cost/benefit analysis
  2. Internal rate of return
  3. Decision theory
  4. Perceptual maps

Difficulty: Medium

AACSB: Reflective thinking

Bloom’s level: Application

Learning Objective: LO 4

98. Functional design involves ______.

    1. reliability, maintainability, and usability
    2. perceptual maps
    3. reverse engineering
    4. a feasibility study

Difficulty: Medium

AACSB: Reflective thinking

Bloom’s level: Application

Learning Objective: LO 4

99. Production design involves ______.

    1. reliability, maintainability, and usability
    2. perceptual maps
    3. reverse engineering
    4. simplification, standardization, modularity, and design for supply chain

Difficulty: Medium

AACSB: Reflective thinking

Bloom’s level: Application

Learning Objective: LO 4

100. Modular design involves ______.

      1. reverse engineering
      2. designing a product so that it can be produced easily and economically
      3. minimizing the number of parts and subassemblies
      4. combining standardized building blocks in a variety of ways

Difficulty: Medium

AACSB: Reflective thinking

Bloom’s level: Application

Learning Objective: LO 4

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Created Date:
Aug 21, 2025
Chapter Name:
Chapter 4 Product Design
Author:
Roberta S. Russell

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