What are five ways that an organization could reduce product costs? Provide an example of how each method would cause cost reduction


The answer could include any of the following: (1) developing new production processes, (2) capture learning curve and experience data, (3) increase capacity, (4) use a focused factory arrangement, (5) design products for manufacturability, (6) design products for logistical support, (7) design products for reliability, (8) design products for maintainability, and (9) use advanced technology in manufacturing products. Examples will differ by student.

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A) U.S. Department of Agriculture B) Consumer Product Safety Commission C) Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act D) Food and Drug Administration

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Jaswal is writing a report that contains a vertical column bar chart showing last year's employee participation in three continuing education courses: human relations skills, stress management, and advanced Excel. Which of the following statements BEST interprets and analyzes the graph?

a. Figure 1 shows enrollment for each of the continuing education programs we offered. b. As Figure 1 indicates, the enrollment for advanced Excel was almost double that of stress management; and human relations skills was the highest of the three. c. The enrollment for stress management was 42; for advanced Excel it was 81; and for human relations skills it was the highest at 127. d. Figure 1 data indicate that continuing education training needs are shifting from training in stress management and advanced Excel toward human relations skills.

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The equal protection clause applies to:

a. state law only regardless of the source b. federal law only regardless of the source c. state law and federal law only regardless of the source d. state law and federal law only in relation to administrative agencies

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The most widely accepted and implemented approach to public-key encryption, _________ is a block cipher in which the plaintext and ciphertext are integers between 0 and n - 1 for some n.

A. MD5 ? B. RSA ? C. SHA ? D. CTR

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