Lean Bronze Certification Exam Questions And 100%
Correct Answers
NUMMI ANSWER Name of joint venture between GM and Toyota
Concentration diagrams - ANSWER "Measles Charts" is another way of describing what
type of tool
Taiichi Ohno - ANSWER Who is commonly referred to as the godfather of lean
manufacturing
Reduction of changeover times - ANSWER SMED (Single Minute Exchange of Dies)
focuses on
Value Stream Mapping - ANSWER Learning to See by Shook and Rother is generally
considered the seminal work of what
JIT and Jidoka - ANSWER The two pillars of the Toyota Production System (TPS)
Red tag area - ANSWER Where should we put items that we don't think we need during
the 5S Sort phase
Gemba walks - ANSWER A chance for the leaders to walk the floor ask questions
understand reality and learn
inventory - ANSWER According to Womack and Jones (Lean Thinking) the simplest and
most effective lean measure. This primary waste is reduced when pulling demand from
the customer. Considered the worst type of waste
, overprocessing - ANSWER Doing more work than is required to satisfy the customer's
requirements.
Characteristics of craft production - ANSWER high cost, unpredictable quality, long
leadtimes and low volumes.
Overproduction ANSWER Making parts just in case is an example of
Takt Time ANSWER Helps to establish the pace of production in the business
Capacity ANSWER Total Production Time Available / (Process Time + Setup/Interval)
Poka Yoke ANSWER an error or mistake proofing tool and helps us build quality into the
process
Product mix - ANSWER main difference between the application of the Ford System and
the Toyota Production System
Bottleneck - ANSWER Any operation where the cycle time exceeds the takt time is
defined as
Identify the customer and define value - ANSWER The first step in value stream mapping
Water spider - ANSWER A person on the production floor responsible for delivering and
picking up material at the rate of production is called a
Knowledge Disconnect - ANSWER Waste added by Pascal Dennis to the traditional 7
wastes (8th waste)
X Matrix - ANSWER Long Term Strategies
Correct Answers
NUMMI ANSWER Name of joint venture between GM and Toyota
Concentration diagrams - ANSWER "Measles Charts" is another way of describing what
type of tool
Taiichi Ohno - ANSWER Who is commonly referred to as the godfather of lean
manufacturing
Reduction of changeover times - ANSWER SMED (Single Minute Exchange of Dies)
focuses on
Value Stream Mapping - ANSWER Learning to See by Shook and Rother is generally
considered the seminal work of what
JIT and Jidoka - ANSWER The two pillars of the Toyota Production System (TPS)
Red tag area - ANSWER Where should we put items that we don't think we need during
the 5S Sort phase
Gemba walks - ANSWER A chance for the leaders to walk the floor ask questions
understand reality and learn
inventory - ANSWER According to Womack and Jones (Lean Thinking) the simplest and
most effective lean measure. This primary waste is reduced when pulling demand from
the customer. Considered the worst type of waste
, overprocessing - ANSWER Doing more work than is required to satisfy the customer's
requirements.
Characteristics of craft production - ANSWER high cost, unpredictable quality, long
leadtimes and low volumes.
Overproduction ANSWER Making parts just in case is an example of
Takt Time ANSWER Helps to establish the pace of production in the business
Capacity ANSWER Total Production Time Available / (Process Time + Setup/Interval)
Poka Yoke ANSWER an error or mistake proofing tool and helps us build quality into the
process
Product mix - ANSWER main difference between the application of the Ford System and
the Toyota Production System
Bottleneck - ANSWER Any operation where the cycle time exceeds the takt time is
defined as
Identify the customer and define value - ANSWER The first step in value stream mapping
Water spider - ANSWER A person on the production floor responsible for delivering and
picking up material at the rate of production is called a
Knowledge Disconnect - ANSWER Waste added by Pascal Dennis to the traditional 7
wastes (8th waste)
X Matrix - ANSWER Long Term Strategies
