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Gemba Kaizen
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. The tangible objects found at gemba such as work pieces - rejects - jigs and tools - and machines.
QCDMS
Three K's (3K)
5 Kaizen Elements
Gembutsu
2. Teamwork - Personal discipline - Improved morale - Quality circles - Suggestions for improvement
Muri
Morning market
Value analysis (VA)
5 Kaizen Elements
3. An effective management method to provide information and gembutsu in a clearly visible manner to both workers and managers so that the current state of operations and the target for kaizen are understood by everybody. It also helps people to identif
Pull production
Don't get it - don't make it - don't send it
Kosu
Visual management
4. A chart with upper and lower control limits on which values of some statistical measures for a series of samples or subgroups are plotted. The chart frequently shows a central line to help detect a trend of plotted values toward either control limit.
Control chart
Don't get it - don't make it - don't send it
2nd Kaizen step
Five golden rules of gemba management
5. A diagram to show causes (process) and the effect (result). The diagram is used to determine the real cause(s) and is one of seven basic tools of problem solving.
JK (jishu kanri)
Ishikawa (fishbone) diagram
Kaizen concepts
3rd Kaizen step
6. The place where work-in-processes and supplies are stored in gemba. A store room is different from the normal warehouse since only standardized inventory is kept in the store room.
Control chart
Total quality control
Store room
SDCA
7. Shewart cycle - Deming cycle - PDCA
Check gembutsu
Three K's (3K)
Standards
Other cycles
8. One of the basic pillars of just-in-time production system. In the flow production - machines are arranged in the order of processing so that the work piece flows between processes without interruption and stagnation.
One-piece flow
Total productive maintenance (TPM)
Flow Production
SDCA
9. The theoretical time it takes to produce a piece of product ordered by the customer - as determined by dividing the total production time by the number of units to be produced.
Takt time
Store room
Five S's (5S)
Kaizen Cycle
10. The Japanese words referring to conventional perception of gemba - kiken (dangerous) - kitanai (dirty) - and kitsui (stressful) - in direct contrast to the idea of gemba being the place where real value is added and the source of ideas for achieving
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11. Innovate to meet requirements and increase productivity
AQL
Value analysis (VA)
Pull production
4th Kaizen step
12. A device that stops a machine whenever a defective product is produced.
Kaizen systems
Simultaneous realization of QCD
One-piece flow
Jidhoka (autonomation)
13. Plan-Do-Check-Act - the basic steps to be followed in making continual improvement.
Visual management
Three M's (3M)
PDCA
Delivery
14. The three major resources to be managed in gemba - manpower - material - and machine.
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15. Muda (waste) - mura (irregularity) - and muri (strain).
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16. The first principle of gemba kaizen. This is a reminder that whenever abnormality occurs - or whenever a manager wishes to know the current state of operations - he or she should go to gemba right away - since gemba is a source of all information.
Go to gemba
Kanban
QF
1st Kaizen step
17. Only one work piece is allowed to flow from process to process to minimize muda in a JIT production system.
One-piece flow
AQL
Total productive maintenance (TPM)
Ishikawa (fishbone) diagram
18. Failure Mode and Effect Analysis is an an analytical tool used to predict and eliminate in advance any potential design defect in new product by analyzing the effects of failure modes of component parts on the final product performance.
Five S's (5S)
JIT (just-in-time)
FMEA
5 Whys
19. Refers to the practice of anticipating danger in advance and taking steps to avoid it.
Heinrich's Law
Hiyari KYT
Control chart
5 Kaizen Elements
20. An affirmative indication or judgement that a product or service has met the requirements of a relevant specification - contract - or regulation.
Conformance
JK (jishu kanri)
QF
Standards
21. A daily routine at gemba that involved examining rejects made the previous day before the work begins so that countermeasures can be adopted as soon as possible - based on gemba-gembutsu principles.
One-piece flow
4th Kaizen step
Morning market
Quality circles
22. Kaizen and management; Process versus result; Following the PDCA/SDCA; Putting quality first; Speaking with data; Treating the next process as the customer.
5 Kaizen Elements
Kaizen concepts
FMEA
Statistical process control (SPC)
23. The application of statistical techniques to control a process. Often the term 'statistical quality control' is used interchangeably.
Statistical process control (SPC)
3rd Kaizen step
Cycle time
Standardization
24. Gauge measurements against requirements
3rd Kaizen step
Delivery
Total productive maintenance (TPM)
Cost
25. In the context of QCD - quality refers to the quality of products or services delivered to the customer. In this instance - quality refers to the conformance to specifications and customer requirements. In a broader sense - quality refers to the qual
Quality
Kaizen Cycle
Don't get it - don't make it - don't send it
Pull production
26. The scare report is a written form from a worker to a supervisor that reports a condition that is unsafe and could lead to quality problems and/or accident.
Jidhoka (autonomation)
Hiyari report
Value analysis (VA)
Failure Tree Analysis (FTA)
27. When used in the contact of QCD - the word cost usually refers to cost management - and not cost cutting. Cost management refers to managing various resources properly - and eliminating all sort of muda in such a way that the overall cost goes down.
Ask why five times
Standards
Muda
Cost
28. When used in the contact of QCD - the word delivery refers to meeting both the delivery as well as the volume requirements of the customer.
Delivery
Suggestion system
Hiyari report
Quality
29. Continue cycle ad infinitum
SDCA
Heinrich's Law
Three K's (3K)
5th Kaizen step
30. The top management must make certain that all levels of the com pay work to achieve Quality - Cost - and Delivery. The ultimate goal is to realize QCD simultaneously - but first of all - priority must be established among the three - quality always b
Flow Production
Simultaneous realization of QCD
Kaizen systems
Mura
31. In Japan - the suggestion system is a highly integrated part of individual-oriented kaizen. The Japanese-style suggestions systems emphasizes morale-boosting benefits and positive employee participation over the economic and financial incentives that
Standards
Control chart
Suggestion system
Five golden rules of gemba management
32. A system designed to achieve the best possible quality - cost - and delivery of products and services by eliminating all kinds of muda in a company's internal processes and deliver products just-in-time to meet customer's requirements.
3rd Kaizen step
Statistical process control (SPC)
Pareto chart
JIT (just-in-time)
33. The actual time taken by an operator to process a piece of product
5 Whys
FMEA
Hiyari report
Cycle time
34. Refers to the specific man hours it takes to process one unit of product in a given process and is calculated by multiplying the number of workers involved in the process by the actual time it takes to complete the process - and dividing that by the
FMEA
Total productive maintenance (TPM)
Statistical quality control (SQC)
Kosu
35. An optimum combination of man - machine - and material. The three elements of standardized work are take time - work sequence - and standard work-in-process.
AQL
Pull production
Suggestion system
Standardized work
36. Standardization is one of the three foundations of gemba kaizen activities and means the documentation of the best way to do the job.
Gembutsu
Standardization
Mura
Kosu
37. Quality Function Deployment is a management approach to identify customer requirements first - and then work back through the stages of design - engineering - production - sales - and after-service of products.
QF
Pareto chart
Quality
Kosu
38. The application of statistical techniques to control quality. Often used interchangeably with statistical process control - but includes acceptance sampling as well as statistical process control.
Total productive maintenance (TPM)
Statistical quality control (SQC)
JIT (just-in-time)
Suggestion system
39. A commonsense slogan to be implemented in gemba that puts into practice the belief that quality is the first priority in any program of QCD - for example - don't accept inferior quality from the previous process - don't make rejects in one's product
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40. A form of root cause analysis in which the user asks 'why' to a problem and its answer up to five (if needed) successive times
Don't get it - don't make it - don't send it
Check gembutsu
4th Kaizen step
5 Whys
41. Standardize an operation and activities
Hiyari report
QCDMS
1st Kaizen step
QCD
42. Japanese word meaning strain and difficulty.
Value analysis (VA)
Muri
Three K's (3K)
2nd Kaizen step
43. A checklist for good housekeeping to achieve greater order - efficiency - and discipline in the workplace. It is derived from the Japanese words seiri - seiton - seiso - seiketsu - and shituke and adopted to the English equivalents of sort - straight
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44. The Japanese word meaning 'waste' which - when applied to management of the workplace - refers to a wide range of non-value-adding activities. In gemba - there are only two types of activities: value adding and non-value adding. Eight types of muda:
Gemba
Takt time
Muda
Quality circles
45. An interdepartmental management activity to realize QCD.
Ask why five times
Delivery
Cross-funtional management
5th Kaizen step
46. Failure Tree Analysis is used to analyze and avoid in advance any safety and reliability problems by identifying cause-and-effect relationships and probability of problems by using the tree diagram.
SDCA
Failure Tree Analysis (FTA)
Mura
Ishikawa (fishbone) diagram
47. A standardized problem-solving procedure to be used at each level of organization. Kaizen story has eight steps: (1)select a project - (2)understand current situations and set objectives - (3)analyze data to identify root causes - (4)establish counte
Flow Production
Kaizen story
Five M's (5M)
Failure Tree Analysis (FTA)
48. Examining tangible objects in gemba when attempting to determine the root cause of problems.
Check gembutsu
5 Whys
Statistical process control (SPC)
Standardization
49. Japanese word meaning irregularity or variability.
Kaizen story
Mura
Five golden rules of gemba management
Visual management
50. A communication tool in the just-in-time system whenever a batch production is involved. A kanban - which means a sign board in Japanese - is attached to a given number of parts or products in the production line - instructing the delivery of a given
Failure Tree Analysis (FTA)
Pareto chart
Kanban
Ask why five times