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LEAN

Lean manufacturing is a ?

 Efficiency improvement technique
 Means to improve responsiveness to the customer
 Method for reducing labor cost
 Set of tools designed to improve productivity

5S is another word for housekeeping ?

 False
 True

Using kanban, production demand is triggered by ?

 Removal of product by the downstream customer
 Any of the Options
 Forecast
 The production planner

Defective product should be ?

 Scrapped or repaired immediately.
 Displayed for everyone to see
 Moved to the rework process
 Immediately moved to the quality holding area

Place the 5s's in the proper order ?

 Sustain, Set-in-order, Shine, Sort, Standardize
 Shine, Sort, Standardize, Set-in-order, Sustain
 Sort, Set-in-order, Shine, Sustain, Standardize
 Sort, Set-in-order, Shine, Standardize, Sustain

It takes two to three years to complete Lean Manufacturing implementation ?

 False
 True

The 10,000,000,000 dollar spent on material handling equipment has been to a waste of money ?

 True
 False

Which of the following is not a goal of lean manufacturing ?

 Utilizing activity-based costing
 Producing smaller lot sizes
 Increasing machine utilization
 Reducing set-up times

Products with low demand should be ?

 Assigned higher cost per unit
 Assigned higher cost per unit
 Batch processed and held in stock until needed
 Produced in the quantity needed

Kanban is based on a model of ?

 Shipyards
 Supermarkets
 Job shop machining
 Automotive assembly lines

5S ?

 Is a simple five-step process
 Relies on the organization and demarcation of the working areas
 Can be done without managerial support
 A,C and D
 A and D
 Targets improvements in morale and efficiency

“Queue” means:

 A signal to start production ?
 A unit of measure
 Waiting
 Material should be pushed to the next operation when a batch is complete

In a manufacturing cell, who has authority to stop production?

 All of the Options
 The line supervisor
 The material handler
 Machine operators

Lean Thinking should only be implemented when there is no crisis ?

 False
 True

In a cell, the operators are responsible to ?

 Direct requests to the supervisor
 Run the machines or processes assigned
 Meet customer requirements
 Maximize production output

The main objective of lean manufacturing is to ?

 Keep labor costs as low as possible by using more of other resources
 Produce products with fewer options to simplify consumer choices
 Outsource much of our manufacturing in order to focus on final assembly
 Produce goods using less resources compared to mass production techniques

What do we mean by VSM ?

 Valid Sustainable Management
 Very Serious Mistake
 None of the Options
 Value Stream Mapping

Mura means ?

 Overburden and absurdity
 All of the Options
 Unevenness (Inconsistency in physical matters)
 Doesnt add value

Production line problems should be apparent to even a casual observer ?

 False
 True

In a lean workcell, the supervisor’s main responsibility is:

 Keeping production moving
 Keeping workers busy
 Achieving production counts
 Identifying and resolving abnormal conditions

One-piece-flow means ?

 Larger lot sizes
 Operators need to work harder
 Batch
 One piece moves to the next operation

Lean projects should be chosen based on ?

 The number of people affected by the changes
 All of the Options
 Impact to the customer and to the company
 Anticipated chance for success

Following are the advantages of sticking to the takt time except ?

 The system is in synchronization with customer requirement
 Pull scheduling is disabled.
 It will give you the rhythm in which the system should operate
 Production is smoothly planned and operations will be carried out without interruptions

Which of the following is not one of the eight wastes ?

 Excess machine capacity
 Waiting
 Overproduction
 Transporting

We can best increase output by producing parts faster ?

 True
 False