Exam 16: Sustainable Operations Management Preparing for the Future

Zanadu Corp.produces several different colors of a product on a single production line.It used to take several hours to switch colors,but now Zanadu has found a way to prepare for changing colors in a few minutes.This was most likely accomplished by:

The goal of total productive maintenance is:

Which of the following lean principles best communicates the notion of demand synchronization?

A production kanban authorizes a worker to:

Which of the following most accurately describes the role of quality in a lean/just-in-time manufacturing environment?

When lean systems are implemented:

Responsibility for a Kaizen event is in the hands of:

Which of the following is NOT associated with quality at the source?

Footprinting is an example of which of the following elements of the 5-S program?

Which of the following is NOT one of the principles associated with lean/just-in-time production?

McGreen Burger Shop sells about two burgers per minute.Although the cook can cook up to 10 burgers per minute,he starts to cook another burger only after the salesperson removes a burger from the ramp.The ramp is large enough to hold only five burgers and keep them warm until a sale is made.This is an example of a:

John Jones is a plant manager.He believes his plant is guilty of "waste of overproduction." Which of the following symptoms might he have observed that led to this belief?

Lean design strives to achieve which of the following objectives?

What is the defining objective of lean?

A standard electrical plug fits into an outlet in only one way because one of the two prongs is larger than the other.This ensures that people will insert the plug properly to create a grounded circuit.This is an example of:

Most of the tools and techniques used in lean systems seek to:

As lean systems thinking is implemented,the amount of training that employees receive:

In which operational setting has lean/just-in-time experienced the lowest levels of acceptance/implementation?

Taichi Ohno,the founder of lean/just-in-time,when he came to America in the 1950s was most impressed with which of the following American developments?

What is the possible impact of lean systems,if taken to its extreme,on supply chain risk?