LEAN BRONZE UPDATED STUDY GUIDE
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔c. Withdrawal Kanban - ✔✔Kanban (Pull signal) that specifies the kind and quantity
of product that the downstream process may pull out is known as:
a. production Kanban
b. downstream Kanban
c. Withdrawal Kanban
d. Customer Kanban
✔✔d. Value Stream - ✔✔A______________ is all the actions (both value-added and
non-value added) currently required to bring a product through the main flows essential
to every product.
a. Lean experience
b. Customer demand
c. Product Launch
d. Value Stream
✔✔c. Overproduction - ✔✔Which is considered to be the WORST of the seven wastes?
a. Inventory
b. motion
c. Overproduction
d. Defects
✔✔c. Practice and Training - ✔✔A commonality between sports and work is the
continuing need for:
a. Skill and Maturity
b. Strength and Endurance
c. Practice and Training
d. Emotion and Dedication
✔✔a. 5% - ✔✔For most unimproved processes, the amount of value-added work
relative to incidental work and waste is approximately:
a. 5%
,b. 50%
c. 25%
d. 80%
✔✔d. Safety Stock - ✔✔The amount of stock kept on hand to compensate for variation
in supplier lead time and upstream processes is known as:
a. Lead time stock
b. Cycle time stock
c. Strategic stock
d. Safety Stock
✔✔c. Takt time is the available work time divided by customer demand - ✔✔Which of
the following is a true statement about takt time?
a. Takt time is calculated after standardized work has been established
b. Takt time is customer demand divided by available work time
c. Takt time is the available work time divided by customer demand
d. Takt time includes lunch and break times for an operator
✔✔b. before continuous improvement can be made - ✔✔Standardizing and stabilizing
the process are necessary steps:
a. for reducing headcount
b. before continuous improvement can be made
c. to empower employee creativity
d. before maximizing individual cell performance
✔✔c. Team members - ✔✔In a lean factory, who is responsible for developing work
standards?
a. Industrial Engineer
b. Process Engineer
c. Team members
d. Upper-level management
✔✔a. select a product family - ✔✔What is the first step to cellularizing a production line?
a. select a product family
b. Identify potential bottle necks
c. Perform process, quality-function-deployment (QFD)
d. Identify and Label products and processes for group technology
✔✔c. Continuous flow - ✔✔In its purest form, when items are processed and moved
directly from one process to the next one piece at a time, it is known as:
a. A "supermarket" pull system
b. Value Stream Mapping
c. Continuous flow
d. Low volume Production
, ✔✔b. A pull system (Kanban) - ✔✔The system used for managing and ensuring the
flow of production materials in a just-in-time production system is known as:
a. Load Leveling system (Heijunka)
b. A pull system (Kanban)
c. Manufacturing Resources planning (MRPII)
d. Materials requirements planning (MRP)
✔✔d. Just-in-time - ✔✔Kanban is a tool to support:
a. 5S
b. Six sigma
c. Error proofing
d. Just-in-time
✔✔b. set production to match the rate of customer demand - ✔✔The purpose of Takt
time is to:
a. Obtain the fastest possible production speed
b. set production to match the rate of customer demand
c. coordinate with MRP scheduling
d. ensures maximum machine efficiencies
✔✔c. A product must be produced every "x" seconds to meet customer demand -
✔✔The takt time number means:
a. Cycle assembly time must be greater than or equal to takt, never less
b. the pace of manufacturing less downtime and scrap rate
c. A product must be produced every "x" seconds to meet customer demand
d. The time to make a product less lead time, available working time and line
changeover
✔✔c. changing the shape or character of a product or assembly - ✔✔Which of the
following is considered value-added work?
a. Activities that must be performed under present work conditions
b. eliminating all defects and the need for rework
c. changing the shape or character of a product or assembly
d. Activities that must be performed under present work conditions
✔✔c. Initiate continuous improvement in the value stream - ✔✔The purpose of the
value stream performance analysis is to:
a. motivate individual contributors to maximize their own output
b. create competition for output between workcells
c. Initiate continuous improvement in the value stream
d. identify and blame poor performers in the value stream
✔✔d. Hoshin planning (policy deployment) - ✔✔Measurements used to gauge
problems, determine targets and then study the impact of improvement activities, check
results and make appropriate adjustments are known as:
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔c. Withdrawal Kanban - ✔✔Kanban (Pull signal) that specifies the kind and quantity
of product that the downstream process may pull out is known as:
a. production Kanban
b. downstream Kanban
c. Withdrawal Kanban
d. Customer Kanban
✔✔d. Value Stream - ✔✔A______________ is all the actions (both value-added and
non-value added) currently required to bring a product through the main flows essential
to every product.
a. Lean experience
b. Customer demand
c. Product Launch
d. Value Stream
✔✔c. Overproduction - ✔✔Which is considered to be the WORST of the seven wastes?
a. Inventory
b. motion
c. Overproduction
d. Defects
✔✔c. Practice and Training - ✔✔A commonality between sports and work is the
continuing need for:
a. Skill and Maturity
b. Strength and Endurance
c. Practice and Training
d. Emotion and Dedication
✔✔a. 5% - ✔✔For most unimproved processes, the amount of value-added work
relative to incidental work and waste is approximately:
a. 5%
,b. 50%
c. 25%
d. 80%
✔✔d. Safety Stock - ✔✔The amount of stock kept on hand to compensate for variation
in supplier lead time and upstream processes is known as:
a. Lead time stock
b. Cycle time stock
c. Strategic stock
d. Safety Stock
✔✔c. Takt time is the available work time divided by customer demand - ✔✔Which of
the following is a true statement about takt time?
a. Takt time is calculated after standardized work has been established
b. Takt time is customer demand divided by available work time
c. Takt time is the available work time divided by customer demand
d. Takt time includes lunch and break times for an operator
✔✔b. before continuous improvement can be made - ✔✔Standardizing and stabilizing
the process are necessary steps:
a. for reducing headcount
b. before continuous improvement can be made
c. to empower employee creativity
d. before maximizing individual cell performance
✔✔c. Team members - ✔✔In a lean factory, who is responsible for developing work
standards?
a. Industrial Engineer
b. Process Engineer
c. Team members
d. Upper-level management
✔✔a. select a product family - ✔✔What is the first step to cellularizing a production line?
a. select a product family
b. Identify potential bottle necks
c. Perform process, quality-function-deployment (QFD)
d. Identify and Label products and processes for group technology
✔✔c. Continuous flow - ✔✔In its purest form, when items are processed and moved
directly from one process to the next one piece at a time, it is known as:
a. A "supermarket" pull system
b. Value Stream Mapping
c. Continuous flow
d. Low volume Production
, ✔✔b. A pull system (Kanban) - ✔✔The system used for managing and ensuring the
flow of production materials in a just-in-time production system is known as:
a. Load Leveling system (Heijunka)
b. A pull system (Kanban)
c. Manufacturing Resources planning (MRPII)
d. Materials requirements planning (MRP)
✔✔d. Just-in-time - ✔✔Kanban is a tool to support:
a. 5S
b. Six sigma
c. Error proofing
d. Just-in-time
✔✔b. set production to match the rate of customer demand - ✔✔The purpose of Takt
time is to:
a. Obtain the fastest possible production speed
b. set production to match the rate of customer demand
c. coordinate with MRP scheduling
d. ensures maximum machine efficiencies
✔✔c. A product must be produced every "x" seconds to meet customer demand -
✔✔The takt time number means:
a. Cycle assembly time must be greater than or equal to takt, never less
b. the pace of manufacturing less downtime and scrap rate
c. A product must be produced every "x" seconds to meet customer demand
d. The time to make a product less lead time, available working time and line
changeover
✔✔c. changing the shape or character of a product or assembly - ✔✔Which of the
following is considered value-added work?
a. Activities that must be performed under present work conditions
b. eliminating all defects and the need for rework
c. changing the shape or character of a product or assembly
d. Activities that must be performed under present work conditions
✔✔c. Initiate continuous improvement in the value stream - ✔✔The purpose of the
value stream performance analysis is to:
a. motivate individual contributors to maximize their own output
b. create competition for output between workcells
c. Initiate continuous improvement in the value stream
d. identify and blame poor performers in the value stream
✔✔d. Hoshin planning (policy deployment) - ✔✔Measurements used to gauge
problems, determine targets and then study the impact of improvement activities, check
results and make appropriate adjustments are known as:
