Exam 8: Process Management: Lean and Six Sigma in the Supply Chain

Lean production systems are sometimes referred to as pull systems because demand from customers activates the production actions of the manufacturing facilities.In order for this demand to be communicated to everyone in the supply chain/manufacturing facility a signal must be passed from downstream processing centers to the upstream processing centers.This system of relaying signals is referred to as a:

A company sells eggs in boxes with 12 cartons and 12 eggs in each carton, thus there are 144 eggs in each box.The organization wants to construct a P-chart to track the proportion of broken eggs in each sample.If the company used one box of eggs in each sample in the dataset, what would be the centerline, upper control limit(UCL), and lower control limit(LCL) for the appropriate P-chart? (Use z = 3.) Choose the closest answer. Sample Eggs Sample Eggs Sample Eggs 3 6 5 5 4 0 3 9 2 4 2 6 2 6 2 4 5 1 2 1

Manufacturing layouts for an organization practicing lean manufacturing principles seek to maximize operator visibility, maintain an effective and efficient flow of people and materials, and minimize the distance that work in process must travel from one processing center to another processing center.

According to the text, the ability to satisfy customer expectations can be referred to simply as:

Lean production emphasizes all of the following EXCEPT:

Deming's 14 points actually conflict with many Six Sigma concepts.

Acceptance sampling is a statistical technique that enables a reject or accept decision to be made based on information obtained from a representative sample drawn from the population.

Successful supply chains evolve through stages; the internally focused stage is characterized by all of the following EXCEPT:

Which of the following best describes the five S's?

According to the text, in supply chain, the term lean has begun to replace the term JIT.

The primary design objective with lean layouts is to reduce wasted movements of workers, customers, and/or work-in-process.