Exam 6: Lean Systems

Regarding the Eight Types of Waste that must be eliminated to implement lean systems,excessive movement and material handling of product between processes is part of which general waste category?

An item is used in Process B at a rate of 150 units per day.Process A works one shift per day (480 minutes)and supplies Process B's requirements.What takt time is required in Process A to meet Process B's demand?

A(n)________ is a group of activities needed to readjust a process between successive lots of items.

Justin Thyme used to run one batch each of 500 As,300 Bs and 100 Cs every month but now he runs a batch of 5 As,3 Bs,and 1 C every half day with the use of:

Lean systems try to:

Combining parts or products with similar characteristics into families and setting machines aside for their production is known as:

One benefit of a lean system is that it reduces space requirements.

What are the general operating rules for a single-card kanban system?

An item sells at a rate of 600 units per day.If a plant works two shifts per day (480 minutes each shift),what takt time is required for the plant to meet this demand?

Mistake-proofing is known by the term:

In a lean system,an item that is manufactured before it is needed is not considered waste,because it helps keep material flowing through the system.

A method in which production of an item begins in advance of customer needs is called:

How can group technology be used in a service setting? Provide an example and describe two advantages of using this principle in a service setting.

Management at Pepman has decided to switch from a push system to a pull system of manufacturing.They are a large repetitive manufacturer of bicycles.Which one of the following is most likely to occur?

The theory of constraints accepts existing system bottlenecks and works to maximize throughput given these constraints,while value stream mapping endeavors to understand how existing processes can be altered to eliminate bottlenecks and other wasteful activities.

How does Toyota's two-card kanban system work?

The Japanese term for continuous improvement in quality and productivity is ________.

Takt time is the cycle time needed to match the rate of production to the rate of sales.

A takt time of 90 seconds generates a process output of:

Scenario 6.1 El Gran Raton,the producers of the finest carpincho wallets in all of Argentina,examined their production process in the form of a value stream map,displayed below. Daniel Penfield artist -Use Scenario 6.1 to determine the total processing time for carpincho gloves.