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LEAN Six Sigma Yellow Belt Questions
with Detailed Verified Answers
Question:What is 'muda'?
Ans: It means waste in Japanese
Question: What is "DOWNTIME"?
Ans: Defects
Overproduction
Waiting
Non-Utilized Talent
Transportation
Inventory
Motion
Extra-Processing
Question: Is receiving the wrong order a defect?
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Ans: Yes, it is a defect of a process.
Question: What is Overproduction?
Ans: Making more, earlier, or faster than the next process needs it.
Question: What is Waiting?
Ans: The most prevalent waste. Involves eating for man machine, materials,
information etc.
Question: What is non-utilized talent?
Ans: Not utilizing people's experience, skills, knowledge, or creativity.
Question: What is Touches?
Ans: This refers to Transportation waste. The unnecessary movement of
materials around an organization. This leads to more opportunities for errors.
This can include communication like emails.
Question: What is Inventory waste?
Ans: includes any materials or supplies in excess of the appropriate quantity at
the appropriate time. This leads to liabilities, greater risk of theft, loss,
damage, or obsolescence.
Question: What is the waste of motion?
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Ans: The waste or people moving around. Workstation analysis works with
optimizing the motion of an individual.
Question: What is Excessive Processing?
Ans: Any effort that doesn't add value to the product or service from the
customer's perspective. Examples include; Re-work loops or work-arounds,
redundant process steps, extra fields requiring unused information, multiple
signatures, unnecessary completion of templates, forms or documents.
Question: What are the four things you can do to waste?
Ans: Eliminate the cause of waste, Simplify the process creating waste,
Streamline any complicated process, and minimize waste being created.
Question: What is DMAIC?
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Ans: Define
Measure
Analyze
Improve
Control
DMAIC is used to find the root cause of problems. It is not necessary for
obvious problems. Use when problem cause is not clear.
Question: When should DMAIC be used?
LEAN Six Sigma Yellow Belt Questions
with Detailed Verified Answers
Question:What is 'muda'?
Ans: It means waste in Japanese
Question: What is "DOWNTIME"?
Ans: Defects
Overproduction
Waiting
Non-Utilized Talent
Transportation
Inventory
Motion
Extra-Processing
Question: Is receiving the wrong order a defect?
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Ans: Yes, it is a defect of a process.
Question: What is Overproduction?
Ans: Making more, earlier, or faster than the next process needs it.
Question: What is Waiting?
Ans: The most prevalent waste. Involves eating for man machine, materials,
information etc.
Question: What is non-utilized talent?
Ans: Not utilizing people's experience, skills, knowledge, or creativity.
Question: What is Touches?
Ans: This refers to Transportation waste. The unnecessary movement of
materials around an organization. This leads to more opportunities for errors.
This can include communication like emails.
Question: What is Inventory waste?
Ans: includes any materials or supplies in excess of the appropriate quantity at
the appropriate time. This leads to liabilities, greater risk of theft, loss,
damage, or obsolescence.
Question: What is the waste of motion?
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Ans: The waste or people moving around. Workstation analysis works with
optimizing the motion of an individual.
Question: What is Excessive Processing?
Ans: Any effort that doesn't add value to the product or service from the
customer's perspective. Examples include; Re-work loops or work-arounds,
redundant process steps, extra fields requiring unused information, multiple
signatures, unnecessary completion of templates, forms or documents.
Question: What are the four things you can do to waste?
Ans: Eliminate the cause of waste, Simplify the process creating waste,
Streamline any complicated process, and minimize waste being created.
Question: What is DMAIC?
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Ans: Define
Measure
Analyze
Improve
Control
DMAIC is used to find the root cause of problems. It is not necessary for
obvious problems. Use when problem cause is not clear.
Question: When should DMAIC be used?
