CMA Intermediate · Operations Management and Strategic Management · Production Planning and Control
A production manager uses a chart with horizontal bars drawn against a time scale to compare planned and actual progress of jobs on each machine. This tool is best identified as:
The tool is a Gantt chart. It shows jobs or activities as horizontal bars along a time scale, letting managers compare planned schedules with actual progress on each machine. The other charts serve different purposes such as ranking causes, showing break-even, or tracing defect causes.
- AGantt chartCorrect
- BPareto chart
- CBreak-even chart
- DIshikawa diagram
Explanation
A Gantt chart plots activities or jobs as horizontal bars against time, so planned and actual progress can be compared. A Pareto chart ranks causes by frequency, a break-even chart relates cost and volume, and an Ishikawa diagram traces causes of a defect.
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