Exam 8: Process Management - Lean and Six Sigma in the Supply Chain

The term "lean production" essentially refers to the Toyota Production System in its entirety.

Acceptance sampling is a statistical technique that enables a reject or accept decision to be made based on information obtained from a representative sample drawn from the population.

The five S's refer to various safety activities practiced by Toyota.

Discuss the linkages between lean production and environmental sustainability.

When designing a manufacturing or service process,or even during the reengineering of such a process,a Pareto chart would be an essential tool for evaluating the process in terms of its action elements,waiting periods,and process flow.

A type of card called a kanban is used to signal when a process is out of control in the production process.

The Quick Response program,developed in the 1980's,was an offshoot of the following supply chain concept:

The common term across the seven wastes is:

Provide an overview of the beliefs of each of the following quality professionals:W.E.DemingPhilip CrosbyJoseph Juran

The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award recognizes firms for their quality achievements and is only given to U.S.firms.

Which of the following layouts is primarily designed to process parts,components,or jobs requiring the same or similar processing steps,saving duplication of equipment and labor:

Statistical process control uses control charts to monitor the outputs of a process to identify variations due to assignable causes from variations due to common causes.