Exam 14: Lean Supply Chains

Which of the following is an element that addresses elimination of waste under lean production?

One of the aims of value stream mapping is to eliminate waste in a process.

Preventive maintenance is emphasized in lean production to ensure that flows are not interrupted by downtime or malfunctioning equipment.

Lean production replaced JIT in the 1990s because JIT did not address the problem of reducing waste.

Firms in Japan tend to have short-term relationships with their suppliers and customers.

Using the formula in the textbook, the only parameters we need to determine the number of kanban card sets is the average number of units demanded over some time period, the container size, and the safety stock.

In the textbook, Toyota's Tai-ichi Ohno identified which of the following types of waste to be eliminated?

Value stream mapping involves materials, not information.

In the textbook, the expression "quality at the source" means that we need to purchase the best quality a supplier or vendor can provide.

In implementing a lean production system, you should work with suppliers to do which of the following?

Kanban means "symbol" or "box" in Japanese.

One of the many lean techniques that have been successfully applied in service firms is the upgrading of housekeeping.

Group technology cells help to eliminate movement and queue (waiting) time between operations.

JIT manufacturing forces a firm to work with a lower water level despite safety hazards.

Which of the following address elimination of waste under lean production?

Applying lean concepts to logistics is difficult unless either the manufacturer or the customer owns the logistics activities.

Smoothing the production flow to dampen schedule variation is called

Lean production makes implementing green strategies in manufacturing processes more difficult.

"Kanban squares" is an educational game played in kanban training sessions.

Lean production and Six Sigma work best in chaotic situations.