Exam 12: Lean Enterprise

Lean production concepts are only applicable to manufacturing,not services.

Lean producers generally use price as the primary criterion for supplier selection.

Identify five of the components of a lean production system.

A pull production process is appropriate to use instead of a push system when demand is relatively stable.

Standardization can reduce what type of waste?

What term is closest to the meaning for Kaizen?

Additional inventory creates all the following problems except

A machine makes a floor lamp model and a desk lamp model.The setup time for either lamp is 10 minutes.A floor lamp can be produced in 3 minutes and a desk lamp can be produced in 2 minutes.125 floor lamps are needed per day and 100 desk lamps are needed per day.What is the most economical production batch size for each lamp?

Describe a kanban system.

A pull production system is based on forecasts to determine production amounts.

An organized work environment is the key to a lean manufacturing system.

Which of the following is not a tool used during the implementation of a lean production system?

A widget maker needs 400 style A widgets a day.The remainder of the time is used to make other style widgets.Calculate the setup time if the batch size used is100 units and the processing time is 1.5 minutes.

Lean production is based on a push system of process flow.

Lean "thinking" originated in Japan.

Using standardized components will reduce manufacturing efficiencies.

A key aspect to a lean production system is for a worker to specialize in one task and do it well.

Calculate the takt time if a company has demand for 1500 items a day,7.0 hours of work time are available per shift,and the company works 2 shifts a day.

Since inventory is required to conduct business,inventory is never considered as a waste of resources in a lean production system.

The objective of "quality at the source" is to minimize inspection costs.