1. The term kaizen is more closely related to which of the following terms?
a. jidoka.
b. autonomation.
c. plan-do-check-action.
d. throughput.
2. Which of the charts or diagrams below shows relationships to reveal problem causes?
a. pareto diagram.
b. range chart.
c. fishbone diagram.
d. histogram.
3. Which of the following terms is more closely related to identifying and correcting problems as they occur?
a. kaizen.
b. kanban.
c. statistical process control.
d. jidoka.
4. Which of the terms below is more closely related to traditional manufacturing concepts, as opposed to the lean enterprise concepts?
a. value added.
b. continuous improvement.
c. value chain.
d. quality at the source.
5. Which of the following terms is more closely related to the lean enterprise manufacturing concepts, as opposed to the traditional concepts?
a. value added concept.
b. produce to build inventory.
c. large work in process inventory buffers.
e. demand pull system.
6. Just-in-time techniques are applicable to
a. Purchasing.
b. Production.
c. Distribution.
d. all of the above.
7. Applying the concepts of just-in-time tends to reduce
a. the cost of handling incoming materials.
b. the cost of materials storage.
c. the cost of materials movement inside the plant.
d. all of the above.
8. Which of the following is not a tool applicable to JIT techniques.
a. Pareto diagrams.
b. Overhead variances.
c. Control charts.
d. Fishbone diagrams.
9. Rearranging a factory from a traditional plant layout to a cellular plant layout tends to
a. increase the need for material buffers.
b. increase the quantity of machine operators needed.
c. increase the proportion of direct product costs to total product costs.
d. All of the above.
10. Which statement(s) below is/are consistent with a JIT accounting system?
a. Batching vendor deliveries before recording in the accounting records.
b. Increasing the traceability of costs with fewer cost pools.
c. Decreasing the number of inventory accounts in the general ledger.
d. a and b.
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