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OPS 571T Wk 3 – Practice: Week 3 Knowledge Check
The text lists seven prominent types of waste that should be eliminated from the supply chain. Which of the following is not one of them?
Multiple Choice
Waste from overproduction
Transportation waste
Waste of waiting time
Waste of motion
None of the above – they are all included in wastes that should be eliminated from supply chains
What term refers to a schedule that pulls material into final assembly at a constant rate?
Multiple Choice
Terminal velocity systems
Maximum velocity scheduling
Slow and steady scheduling
Kanban schedules
Level schedule
What is the term which refers to the entire production process working in harmony to achieve the profit goals of the firm?
Multiple Choice
Team processes
Synchronous manufacturing
Coordinated production
Steady state
Level production planning
What is the name of the software Goldratt developed to implement his idea of TOC?
Multiple Choice
Goldratt ERP (GERP)
Constraint manager
TOC-Soft
Optimized production technology
Production scheduler
To develop a lean manufacturing system a firm might do which of the following?
Multiple Choice
Eliminate anything that does not add value for the customer.
Standardize product configurations.
Process design with product design.
Adopt a kaizen philosophy.
Implement top-down management controls.
In setting up a Kanban control system you need to determine the number of kanban card sets needed. If assume the expected demand during lead time is 50 per hour, the safety stock is 20 percent of the demand during lead time, the container size is 4, and the lead time to replenish an order is 8 hours, what number of Kanban card sets is needed?
Multiple Choice
60
80
90
120
150
Which of the following is a lean production technique that has been successfully applied in service firms?
Multiple Choice
Decision trees
Leveling the facility load
Linear programming
Fully utilized capacity
Backflushing
Which of the following is one of Dr. Eli Goldratt’s rules of production scheduling for optimized production technology?
Multiple Choice
Utilization and activation of a resource are not the same.
Do not allow bottlenecks to govern the flow of the line.
An hour lost at a bottleneck saves an hour for the entire system.
Balance the capacities, not the flows.
The level of utilization of a bottleneck resource is not determined by its own potential but by some other constraint in the system.
A useful measure of inventory performance is called “dollar days.” In which of the following areas are dollar days measurements not useful?
Multiple Choice
Marketing
Research and development
Manufacturing
Project management
Purchasing
Which of the following is a negative aspect of JIT compared to synchronous manufacturing?
Multiple Choice
JIT cannot deal with outside vendors.
JIT needs broadly fluctuating production levels.
JIT does not allow very much flexibility in the products produced.
JIT requires a great deal of workforce computational skills.
JIT does not deal well with bottlenecks.