DML EXAM 1 Questions And Answers 2022/2023

A. MACHINING CAREERS AND COMPETITIVE MANUFACTURING 4.How is lean manufacturing supposed to make a company more efficient and more profitable? 5.What was the basis of improvement in the Toyota Production System? 6.The Toyota Production System originally listed seven wastes. An eighth was added. What is it and what does it mean for you in your career? 7.What is the basis of the Five S tool? 8.How can Value Stream Mapping improve a process? 9.What is Kanban? 10.What is Poka-Yoke? - Answer - 4. Lean manufacturing attempts to reduce and eliminates waste that takes away from productivity and profitability 5. reduction or elimination of the seven wastes they identified. 6.The eight waste involved companies not utilizing the talent and brains of their workers. 7.The 5 S method has to do with organizing work. Eliminating tools and things that are not essential. Organizing stations to eliminate unnecessary motion and effort. Keeping things clean and maintained every day. 8.Value stream mapping is a lean manufacturing tool that can be used to analyze and design the flow of materials and in-formation required to bring a product to a customer. It originated at Toyota. helps eliminate non-value added operations and costs in a process. 9. Kanban is not an inventory control system. It is a scheduling system that helps determine what to produce, when to produce it, and how many to produce. Kanban uses the rate of demand to control the rate of production. Demand is passed from the end customer through the chain of customer (worker) processes. Toyota first applied this technique in 1953 in their main machine shop. 10. Japanese word that means mistake-proofing or fail-safing. A poka-yoke is any mechanism in a lean manufacturing process that helps an equipment operator avoid mistakes. For example, the addition of a pin in a fixture to prevent the part from being mislocated would be a poka-yoke. Poka-yoke attempts to eliminate product defects by preventing,