A) What term is closest to the meaning for Kaizen? Quality Automation Waste Cycl

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A)

What term is closest to the meaning for Kaizen?

Quality

Automation

Waste

Cycle time

Continuous improvement

B)

Lean principles include all the following except that

Actions that do not add value should be eliminated

Products should be pushed to the customer

Continuous improvement

Value is defined from the customers' point of view

Value creation should be organized in a tight and integrated sequence

C)

Locating production facilities close to distribution facilities is a way to minimize waste resulting from what?

Transportation

Processing time

Inventory

Waiting

Movement

D)

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

Efficient

Push

Kanban

Customer driven

Pull

E)

Making the right amount of inventory available at the right time is an objective of what inventory management approach?

Kanban

JIT

Muda

SMED

Jidoka

F)

In an assembly line following a lean philosophy, what would a worker do who found a quality problem?

Stop the line and fix the problem

Fix the problem personally at the end of the shift

Report who made the mistake

Let the inspector fix the problem

Report the problem at the end of the shift

G)

Who is generally given credit for the development of the principles of scientific management?

Fredrick Taylor

Adam Smith

Seorge Stephenson

Jack Kilby

Henry Ford

H)

What term describes an activity in services that the customer does not directly interact with or see?

Pseudo office activity

Out-of-office activity

Front-office activity

Back-office activity

Invisible office activity

I)

Processing technologies do all the following except what?

Track information

Assemble products

Physically move items

Cut or form material into shape

Shape material

J)

Identify the major challenge of an ERP System.

Connects business departments

Connects to suppliers

Connects to customers

The systems are complex and expensive

Reports are based on up to the minute information.

K)

The bullwhip effect describes what situation in a supply chain?  

Variance in demand decreases

The mean demand decreases

The variance in demand is constant

The mean demand increases

Variance in demand increases

Explanation / Answer

A) Continuous improvement

B) Actions that do not add value should be eliminated

C) Transportation

D) Pull

E) JIT

F) Stop the line and fix the problem

G) Fredrick Taylor

H) Back offfice activity

I) Track Information

J) Systems are complex and expensive

K) Variance in the demand increases

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