Month: November 2021

If the customer demand for a product is 100 products, total time is 480 minutes out of which 30 minutes lost to setup and 60 minutes for meetings, what is the TAKT Time? OPTIONS 3.9 minutes per product 3.6 minutes per product 4.2 minutes per...

OPTIONS Transportation Inventory Motion Muda ANSWER Muda EXPLANATION Warusa Kagen conditions Muda, Mura, Muri

OPTIONS Objectives met Not met Need to study the business aspects None of the above ANSWER Need to study the business aspects EXPLANATION Correct answer: C) Although a reduction in scrap levels has been accomplished, any decision on whether the process is Lean or not...

OPTIONS Lean may reduce stock turns Lean should reduce stock turns Depends on the current and the future state scenario Lean will increase stock turns. ANSWER Lean will increase stock turns. EXPLANATION Increasing stock turns is the only possible benefit.

OPTIONS Improve productivity Improve quality Achieve Continuous Flow in the product Reduce Inventory ANSWER Achieve Continuous Flow in the product EXPLANATION The main benefit of implementing Lean is to bring about continuous flow in the product. All other benefits come as a by-benefit.

OPTIONS Lean TRIZ Six Sigma Kaizen Blitz ANSWER Kaizen Blitz EXPLANATION Lean, Six Sigma and sometimes TRIZ as well turn out as gradual improvement approaches. Kaizen Blitz is considered a fast approach in terms of how quickly results are achieved. Thus Kaizen Blitz is correct.

OPTIONS Slow and gradual improvement Breakthrough improvement Goal Feedback ANSWER Feedback EXPLANATION Correct answer: (D) While principally Continual Improvement is slow and gradual improvement, some approaches also work on the concept of breakthrough improvement, thus d is correct.

OPTIONS Lack of investment in software and hardware Inability to comprehend statistics Inability to use statistics Lack of leadership support ANSWER Lack of leadership support EXPLANATION Support and commitment for a Lean Six Sigma deployment from the leadership of an organization is one of the...

OPTIONS The time to be spent was not planned enoughThe BB did not get enough leadership supportThe BB spent time changing the wrong set of peopleThe BB might have used statistical tools in what is a human problem to solve ANSWER The BB spent time...

OPTIONS Empower the change Enforce the change Drop the change Postpone the change ANSWER Enforce the change EXPLANATION Enforcing anything will not result in the employee participating in the change effort. In fact, for the time being you may think of achieving the results, but...