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CMA Intermediate · Operations Management and Strategic Management · Designing of Operational Systems and Control

A firm redesigns its product so that it uses fewer distinct parts, common components and interchangeable parts across variants, mainly to cut inventory and speed up assembly. This approach is best described as:

This is standardisation combined with modular design. Using common, interchangeable components across variants reduces the number of distinct parts, lowering inventory and assembly time, unlike reverse engineering, which studies a rival's product, or obsolescence planning, which shortens product life.

  1. AStandardisation and modular designCorrect
  2. BValue engineering of customer-facing features only
  3. CProduct obsolescence planning
  4. DReverse engineering of a competitor's product

Explanation

Using common, interchangeable components and fewer distinct parts is standardisation, usually combined with modular design. It lowers inventory and assembly time. Reverse engineering is about dismantling a rival's product, and obsolescence planning is about shortening product life.

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