Category: LSSBB/ Lean Six Sigma Black Belt

OPTIONS miss interactions gain efficiencies save time cost less ANSWER miss interactions EXPLANATION A full factorial design helps you get all the individual effects along with interaction effects.

OPTIONS Benchmarking Brainstorming Goal-setting Problem-solving ANSWER Brainstorming EXPLANATION Brainstorming helps getting people’s views together from their background and understanding. It also ensures that different ideas get discussed.

OPTIONS Six Sigma Continuous Breakthrough Sporadic ANSWER Breakthrough EXPLANATION Continuous and Breakthrough are the most appropriate ones. While Six Sigma deals with breakthrough, any minor quality improvement project will deal with continuous improvement. So, breakthrough improvement is most appropriate.

OPTIONS The economic costs associated with a catastrophic failure of an internal subsystem The unavoidable quality system costs associated with the production of any product or service The opposite of external failure costs The costs resulting from a nonconformance detected before a product or service...

OPTIONS continuous discrete expensive to collect read from a scale of measurement ANSWER discrete EXPLANATION Attribute data is always discrete.

OPTIONS can be identified and researched easily are practiced in many different industries have a major impact on the success of the business have not been documented ANSWER have not been documented EXPLANATION For an undocumented process, Benchmarking would not yield any good results.

OPTIONS knowledge of the underlying distribution of the population is limited the measurement scale is either nominal or ordinal the statistical estimation is required to have higher assurance management requires substantial statistical analysis prior to implementation ANSWER the measurement scale is either nominal or ordinal...

OPTIONS Check sheet Flow diagram Force-field analysis Activity network diagram ANSWER Check sheet EXPLANATION This ensures that all the required data has been identified and validated.

OPTIONS Setup Process Storage Inspection ANSWER Process EXPLANATION Process defines the values/culture within any organization.

OPTIONS improving machine efficiency reducing field failures to virtually zero capturing the voice of the customer preventing controllable defects ANSWER preventing controllable defects EXPLANATION A poka-yoke device is one that prevents incorrect parts from being made or assembled, or that easily identifies a flaw or...