Business operation quiz on lean production

Which of the following is an advantage of just-in-time manufacturing?

• Labour productivity is increased

• stock holding costs are significantly reduced

• Lead times are lengthened

• Dependence on the reliability of suppliers is increased

Lean production focuses on which of the following?

• Increasing labour productivity

• improving cash flow

• using fewer resources

• making production more capital intensive

What does Kaizan mean?

• Continuous improvement

• Agile manufacturing

• Multi-skilling

• Market oriented

which of the following is practice associated with Kaizen?

• Extension Strategies

• Skimming

• Product differentiation

• Empowerment

___________ approach to production aimed at reducing the quality of resources used

• Lean production

• Just in Time production

• Batch production

• Job Production

______________ product that has not been Meade properly or is not working properly

• Good

• Defective

• Better

___________ Production technique that is highly responsive to customer orders and uses very little stock holding

• Lean

• Batch

• Just in time

__________ where a product has been designed so that it is exactly right for someone's needs.

• Product oriented

• Tailor made

• Employee oriented

___________ large supply of goods and so forth that are being kept for use or possible use in the future

• closing stock

• Stockpile

• opening stock

__________ to manage to make something continue to exist over a long period of time

• empowerment

• sustain

• standardization