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Lean Systems

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 36 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Managers and employees are obligated to see the problems and issues in person rather than relying on reports.






2. A scheduling approach aimed at synchronizing the output rate with the rate of customer demand.






3. Activities in the operating processes are initated by actual customer demands - and not by forecasted demands.






4. Unnecessary or excessive resource activity






5. A graphical technique that helps managers understand material and information flows as a product makes its way through the process.






6. Processing more units than are necessary.






7. The culture that is present in lean systems and that places a high value on respect for people in the system.






8. Making current performance and potential problems immediately visually apparent.






9. A form of level - mixed






10. A focus on developing technological features of equipment and processes that quatomatically detect and flag problems.






11. Resources wasted waiting for work.






12. The use of visul indicator systems such as flashing lights to help management assess current performance and quickly idnetify the location of current problems.






13. The practice of eliminating defects at their root cause origination points.






14. A short term - cross-functional team project aimed at improving an existing process.






15. The application of lean principles and tools to the task of designing products.






16. The practice of leveling quantities of different product models produced over a period of time - with the goals of reducing batch sizes and lead times.






17. An approach to work layout and scheduling that gathers in one location all of the equipment and work skills necessary to complete produciton of a family of similar products.






18. Putting the responsibility for attacking waste with the employees directly involved in the processes.






19. Organizing operations systems by grouping together similar customers and then designing and implementing product systems to serve these specific customers.






20. Waste due to unnecessary scrap - rework - or correction.






21. The processes and systems that work to identify and prevent all possible equipment breakdown.






22. An older name for lean systems






23. Excessive or unnecessary operations.






24. A classification of wastes into one of seven basic categories.






25. The use of various statistical tools for analyzing the capabilities of a given process and for monitoring its performance - with the goal of flagging potential problems before they occur.






26. An emphasis on redesigning process in such a way as to make mistakes either impossible or immediately apparent to the worker.






27. Units being unnecessarily moved.






28. An emphasis on eliminating non-value-adding process steps nd on executing pocess steps in exactly the same way each time by every worker.






29. A systematic program for effective housekeeping in operational processes.






30. Units waiting to be processed or delivered.






31. A philosophy that empasizes the minimization of the amount of all resources used in the various activities of the enterprise.






32. A systematic three-stage procedure for reducing long setups.






33. Another term for lean systems; refers to the specific lean system implemented at Toyota.






34. The processes used to reduce setup and changeover times with the goal of making output of smaller batches more efficient.






35. A scheduling system that builds output in response to actual customer demand.






36. The practice by which an operator should stop the process and immediately fix problems - rather than allowing it to continue making poor-quality output.