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| Lean production is an integrated set of activities designed to achieve HIGH VOLUME production using minimal inventories of raw materials, work in process, and finished goods. |
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| Lean production REPLACED JIT in the 1990s because JIT did not address the problem of reducing waste. |
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| Green strategies that save energy and fight global warming have broad consumer appeal and political support. |
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| "Quality at the Source" requires factory workers to become their own inspectors. |
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| UNIFORM plant loading is where you schedule production with different amounts of the same product each day of the week to permit variation to meet changing demand requirements. |
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| Uniform plant loading is a process of smoothing the production activity flow to dampen the reaction waves that normally occur in response to schedule variations. |
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| Kanban means "SYMBOL" or "BOX" in Japanese |
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| In Japanese manufacturing automation and robotics are used extensively to perform dull or routine jobs so employees are free to focus on important improvement tasks. |
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| One of the many JIT techniques that have been sucessfully applied in service firms is the upgrading of quality. |
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| One of the many JIT techniques that have been sucessfully applies in service firms is in the upgrading of housekeeping. |
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| PREVENTATIVE maintenance is emphasized in lean production to ensure that flows are not interrupted by downtime or malfunctioning equiptment. |
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In the textbook Toyota's Fujio Cho identified which of the following types of waste to be eliminated?
Excess Quality
Overproduction
UnderProduction
Environmental
Over-Thinking |
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In the textbook Toyota's Fujio Cho identified which of the following types of waste to be eliminated?
Excess quality
Motion
Excess Capacity
UnderProduction
Excess Demand |
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Which of the following is a KEY inventory reduction taget under lean prodcution?
FIFO Inventory
Hidden Inventory
Saftey Stock
Lost Inventory
Ladder Inventory |
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Which of the following is an element that addresses the ELEMINATION of waste under lean production?
Production ahead of demand
Group plant loading technology
Kanban production control system
Minimized run times
Full Capacty utilization |
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| KANBAN Production Control System |
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Which of the following statements holds true for KANBAN PRODUCTION CONTROL SYSTEMS?
1) The authroity to produce or supply additional parts comes from upstream operations
2) In a paperless control system, containers can be used instead of cards
3) The cards or containers make up the Kanban push system
4) They require substantial quantative analysis prior to implementation |
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| In a paperless control system, containers can be used instead of cards |
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When implementing a lean production system a stabilized schedule is achieved using which of the following?
Level scheduling
Demand Pull
Freeze window
Reduced lot size
Bottom-round management |
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To implement a Kanban Pull System, a firm would do which of the following?
Reduce lot sizes
Force demand
Hire a consultant
Bottom-round management
Implement group technology |
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In implementing a lean production system you should work with suppliers to do which of the following?
Open facilities near your factory
Focus workstation capacities
Backflush
Provide quality at the source
Reduce lead times |
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In implementing a lean production system you should work with suppliers to do which of the following?
Calculate lead times
Qulaity circles
Freeze windows
Make frequent deliveries
Achieve bottom-round management |
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| MAKE FREQUESNT DELIVERIES |
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Imagine comparing a manufacturing operation using regular lot-sizing and the same operation with a Kanban/lean production approach. What would be your expectations of the difference between the total cost (i.e., inventory holding costs+setup/ ordering costs) of each?
1) Inventory holding cost will increase non-linearly with inventory
2) Total costs will be lower for the regular size operation
3) Total costs will be lower for the kanban/ lean production operation
4) The order quantity will be larger for the kanban/ lean production approach
5) As long as the total quantity is the same, total costs will be the same. |
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| TOTAL COSTS WILL BE LOWER FOR THE KANBAN/LEAN PRODUCTION OPERATION |
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Which of the following is a lean production technique that has been sucessfully applied in service firms?
Decision trees
leveling the facility load
Linear programming
Fully utilizing capacity
Backflushing |
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| Leveling the facility load |
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| JIT is typically applied to non-repititive manufacturing |
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| Lean production REPLACED JIT in the 1990s because JIT did not address the problem of reducing waste. |
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| Lean production is a management philosophy and a PULL system throughout the plant. |
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| In the textbook the expression "QUALITY AT THE SOURCE" means that we need to purchase the best quality a supplier or vendor can provide. |
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| JIT production means that we produce the product before it is required so the customer does not wait for the prodcut. |
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| Uniform plant loading is a propcess of smoothing the production activity flow to dampen the reaction waves that normally occur in response to schedule variations. |
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| A KANBAN control system uses a signaling device to regulate JIT flows. |
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| Respect for people is a key to the Japanese improvement ideas in manufacturing. |
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Which of the following are related to lean production?
A philosophy of waste elimination
Lean consumption
Never running out of inventory
The wahei-Subaru method
Full use of capacity |
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| A Philosophy of waste elimination |
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In the textbook Toyota's Fujio Cho identified which of the following types of waste to be eliminated?
Underproduction
Excess quality
Preventative maintenance
Product defects
kaizen |
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Which of the following is a key INVENTORY REDUCTION TARGET under lean prodcuction?
FIFO Inventory
Hidden Inventory
Lost Inventory
Ladder Inventory |
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In designing a lean production facility layout a designer should do which of the following?
1) Design for work flow balance
2) Locate felxible workstations offline
3) Link operations through a push system
4) Balance capacity using job shop analysis
5) Always keep operations of a single floor in a factory |
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When implenting a lean production system a stabilized schedule is achieved using which level of the following?
level scheduling
Demand pull
Freeze windows
Reduced lot sizes
Bottom-round management |
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In implementing a lean production system you should work with suppliers to do which of the following?
Open facilities near your factory
Focus workstation capacities
Backflush
Provide quality at the source
Reduce lead times |
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In implementing a lean production system you should work with suppliers to do which of the following?
Calculate lead times
Quality circles
Freeze windows
Make frequent deliveries
Achieve bottom-round management |
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Imagine comparing a manufacturing operation using regular lot-sizing and the same operation with a Kanban/lean production approach. What would be your expectations of the difference between the total cost (i.e. inventory holding costs+setup/orering costs) of each?
1) Inventory holding cost will increase non-linearly with inventory
2) Total costs will be lower for the regular lot-sized operations
3) Total costs will be lower for the Kanban/lean production operation
4) The order quantity will be larger for the Kanban/lean production approach
5) As long as the total quantity is the same, total costs will be the same |
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| TOTAL COSTS WILL BE LOWER FOR THE KANBAN/Lean Production Approach |
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In a lean production system we expect to see which of the following?
No extra inventory
Extra inventory of critical parts held "just-in-case"
More parts and fewer standardizied product configurations
Managers being held responsible for the quality fo work turned out
Closer management/labor relations |
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| JIT is typically applied to non-repetitive manufacturing. |
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| Lean production is an integrated set of activitires designed to achieve HIGH VOLUME production using MINIMAL INVENTORIES or RAW MATERIALS, work in process, and finished goods. |
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| Lean production requires a "push &pull" system of inventory replenishment. |
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| Lean production replaced JIT in the 1990s because JIT did not address the problem of reducing waste. |
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| Group technology cells help to eleminate movement and queue (waiting) time between operations. |
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| "Quality at the source" requires factory workers to become their own inspectors. |
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| JIT production means that we produce the product before it is required so that the customer does not wait for the product. |
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| Uniform plant loading is where you schedule production with different amounts of the same product each day of the week to permit variation to meet changing demand requirements. |
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| One of the many JIT techniques that have been sucessfully applies in service firms is the upgrading of quality. |
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| One of the many JIT techniques that have been sucessfully applies in service firms is the upgrading of housekeeping |
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| One of the many JIT techniques that have been successfully applies in service firms is the eliminating of unnecessary activities |
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| Preventative maintanence is emphasized in lean production to ensure that flows are not interrupted by downtime or malfunctioning equiptment. |
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Which of the following are related to lean production?
A Philosophy of waste elemination
Lean Consumprtion
Never running out of Inventory
The Waehi-Subaru method
Full use of capacity |
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| A Philosophy of waste production |
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Which of the following addresses elimination of waste under lean production?
Info-matic warehouse networks
Outsourced housekeeping
Quality at the source
Backflush
Bottom-round management |
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In a lean production system we expect to see which of the following?
No extra inventory
More parts and fewer standardized product configurations
Managers being held responsible for quality of the work turned out
Closer management/labor relationships |
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