Final Test

Question 1

Who is Dr. Taichi Ohno

Answer 1

Father of Toyota Manufacturing

Question 2

What are the 7 ways of Taichi Ohno “Wastes”*

Answer 2

Waste from over production 
Waste of waiting time 
Transportation waste
Inventory Waste
Processing waste and scraping 
Waste of motion 
Waste from product defects

Question 3

Waste from over production *

Answer 3

Produce more than needed

Question 4

Waste of waiting time *

Answer 4

Not waste from people waiting. It is from Work in Process waiting.

Question 5

Transportation waste*

Answer 5

Moving the goods from one place to another. Warehouse to floor and then from floor to warehouse. Back and forth (unnecessary)

Question 6

Inventory Waste*

Answer 6

Takes up space, person needs to manage it, then move it around.

Question 7

Processing waste and scraping *

Answer 7

Inventory that is unfixable and you are having to throw it away.

Question 8

Waste of motion *

Answer 8

Unncessary motion by worker.

Question 9

Waste from product defects *

Answer 9

Products you can fix, but it takes time away from other things, and money that is now being wasted.

Question 10

What is Uniform plant loading *

Answer 10

Taking the number of products needed and producing them over the period of time before they are to be sold.

Question 11

Kanban

Answer 11

Card signal system: No computers in the past so this system made it so everyone knew what was going on and what was needed.

Question 12

Lean Production

Answer 12

a focus on eliminating as much waste as possible

Question 13

Customer Value

Answer 13

defined as something for which the customer is willing to pay

Question 14

Waste

Answer 14

is deefined as anything that does not add value from the customer’s perspective

Question 15

Value Stream

Answer 15

Consists of the value-adding and non-value-addings activities required to design, order, and and prvide a product or service from concept to launch, order to delivery, and raw materials to customers.

Question 16

Waste reduction

Answer 16

The optimization of the value-adding activities and the elimination of non-value-adding activities that are part of the value stream.

Question 17

Lean suppliers

Answer 17

Culture is one of continuous improvement.

To develop lean suppliers, organizations should include them in their value added stream planning.

Question 18

Lean procurement

Answer 18

Automation and visibility

Question 19

Lean Manufacturing

Answer 19

Produce what the customer wants, in the quantity they want, when they want it, and with minimal resources.

Question 20

Lean Warehousing

Answer 20

Eliminating non value added steps and waste in product storage.

Question 21

Lean Logistics

Answer 21

Can be applied to the functions associated with the movement of material through the system.
Eliminating non Claude added activities while improving the value added activities.

Question 22

Lean Customers

Answer 22

Understand their business needs.
High levels of delivery performance.
Effective partnerships.
Value in their products

Question 23

Value stream mapping

Answer 23

flowcharting tool. used to visualize product flows through various processing steps.

Question 24

Preventive maintenance

Answer 24

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Question 25

Group Technology (GT)

Answer 25

is a philosophy in which similar parts are grouped into families, and the processes required to make the parts are marranged in a manufacturing cell.

Question 26

Quaility at the source

Answer 26

means do it right the first time and, when something goes wrong, stop the process or assembly line immediately.

Question 27

JIT Produciton

Answer 27

producing what is needed when needed and no more.

Question 28

Level Schedule

Answer 28

is one that requires material to be pulled into final assembly in a pattern uniform enough to allow the various elements of produciotn to respond to pull signals.

Question 29

Backflush

Answer 29

is used where the parts that go into each unit of the product are periodically removed from inventory and accounted for based on the number of units produced

Question 29

Freeze window

Answer 29

period of time during which the schedule is fixed and no further changes are possible.

Question 30

Uniform plant loading

Answer 30

smoothing the production flow to dampen the reaction waves that normall occur in response to schedule variations

Question 31

What is ROP

Answer 31

The period of inventory level for which we should make a new order.