Supply Chain Management Ch. 7 MBA 6040

A setup is completed in 3 minutes. What is the type of this setup?

Single setup

In lean thinking, anything that does not contribute value to the product or service, is called a

waste

Kanbans are mostly associated ______.

with manufacturing

There are two work centers (A and B) in the production. Suppose demand at the receiving work center B is 3 parts per minute and a standard container holds 30 parts. Also suppose that it takes 120 minutes for a container to make a complete circuit from A to B and back to A. Calculate the number of containers needed for this case.

12; n = DTCDTC = 3(120)303(120)30 = 12

Reducing setup time is important in lean production systems because it leads to all of the following, except which one?

Decreases flexibility

Select three forms of waste from the following list.

Defects Excess processing Overproduction

Which of the following statements characterizes the repetitive manufacturing? Select all that apply.

Materials were produced in large batches. Narrow jobs were created. Machines were made to run faster.

Which statement related to quality is correct for the lean production system?

Quality must be an input into a lean system for the production processes.

Given the following setup times, select all single setups.

2 minutes 5 minutes 7 minutes

Which technique that supports lean thinking is based on asking multiple questions?

5 Whys technique

Select all statements that apply to the "integrated supplier program".

A supplier takes responsibility for an entire family of parts. Suppliers are selected before the parts reach final design. Paperwork is reduced in receiving and inspection.

Which of the following forms of waste is related to the poor design or inadequate maintenance of processes?

Excess processing

Just-In-Time (JIT) manufacturing was first implemented in ______.

Japan

Which of the following is known today as a lean production? Select all that apply.

Just-In-Time manufacturing Toyota Production System

Which of the following is one of the "integrated supplier program" features?

Long-term strategic relationship

Which of the following encourages workers to learn more skills in the lean production?

Pay system that rewards workers on the basis of the number of different jobs they can perform.

Which of 5S terms has the following meaning: "Decide what things should be kept and what things should be discarded."?

To sort

Which of 5S terms require to maintain the other four as a habit of work and way to operate?

To sustain

Producting at rates ______ than the takt time will result in shortages in meeting the demand.

less

The workers in lean production have ______ set of skills than their counterparts in traditional environment.

a much broader

A kaizen event can take ______.

between two days and one week

Reducing setup time is also referred to as

changeover

In lean thinking, the striving for perfection tenet is based on all of the following, except ______

changing a process based on intuition alone

In the kenban system work-in-process inventory ______ to available containers.

is limited

Deploying lean thinking often starts and is maintained through

kaizen events

Producting at rates greater than the takt time will result ______.

in building up inventory

The value stream ______ creates a visual representation of the value stream of a process.

mapping

The Japanese term for waste is

muda

If n is a total number of containers, D is a demand rate, C is a container size, and T is time for a container to complete an entire circuit, then the maximum inventory can be computed as ______.

n C D T

Kanban means a marker used ______. Select all that apply.

to control movements of parts through a sequential process to control timing through a sequential process

A lean production system is designed ______.

to expose errors and get them corrected at their sources