Exam 12: Lean Enterprise

Group technology is used to identify commonalities among components.

Lean production systems use large batch sizes to minimize setup times.

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 is 1 unit and the processing time is 1.5 minutes.

Perfection is a goal of a lean production system.

Identify five wastes commonly found in a production system.

Calculate the takt time if a company has demand for 2100 items a week.8.0 hours of work time is available per day and the company works 6 days a week.

The law of velocity suggests that the speed of any process is directly related to the amount of work or things in process.

What is the card that is used to control production in a lean production system called?

Which of the following is not descriptive of a producer who might use a push production system?

A production system that uses customer demand to signal production planning is what type of system?

Production activities that are wasteful and do not add value to the product are considered as Muri.

A lean enterprise defines waste very narrowly.

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.Calculate how much setup times should be reduced if the batch sizes are reduced to 20?

Which five-S term means to separate needed material from unneeded items?

What is the preferred batch size for a lean production system?