MSSC Safety

Advanced manufacturing does NOT serve the transportation, communications, or medical industries. Is this statement TRUE or FALSE?

• True

• False

Engineers and plant managers can easily check on operations in their own plant, or halfway around the world, due to advancements in __________.

• communications

• Quality

• Productivity

• engineering

The three Fs of product design are form, fit and __________.

• Fabrication

• function

• Foundation

• feature

The selection of a production area layout depends on __________.

• The number of operators available

• Timeline and budget

• Space limitations

• The type of product produced

What's the single largest obstacle in the way of effective communication?

• Always thinking miscommunication is the other person's fault

• Poor listening

• Poor speaking

• Loud noises

What do we mean when we say a message has been encoded?

• It has been converted into symbols we can see or hear

• It is top secret

• It can't be understood unless you have a special key

• It has been enclosed in a protective cover

While the Sender is speaking, the Receiver should __________.

• focus on content

• think about what he's going to say

• think about what's for dinner

• interrupt the Sender if he talks for too long

Teamwork, concurrent engineering, tools and techniques are needed in order to make __________ productive.

• sales

• product introduction

• product scam prevention efforts

• safety tests

__________ involves every employee in the company continually looking for ways to improve processes, and eliminate wasteful actions.

• concurrent engineering Continuous improvement Customer service Product development

• Product development

• Customer service

• Continuous improvement

In today's competitive markets, processes and people are constantly changing, resulting in a large need for __________.

• unskilled workers

• Training

• decreased quality

• longer cycle times