WorksheetsThe Goal – End of Book Quiz
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 16mins
What is the first step in the Theory of Constraints?
Subordinate everything else to the constraint
Elevate the system's bottlenecks
Identify the system’s constraint
Exploit the constraint
Throughput is best defined as:
The money spent on raw materials
The rate at which the system generates money through sales
The number of parts a machine can produce
The amount of time something spends in the system
Which of the following is considered *Inventory* in TOC terms?
Electricity used by machines
Wages paid to workers
Raw materials and work-in-progress
Customer orders waiting to be shipped
If a process is already optimized and a new constraint appears, what should happen first?
Ignore the new constraint
Increase inventory at the constraint
Return to Step 1 of the 5 Focusing Steps
Hire more workers
Which of the following is an *Operational Expense*?
Unused materials in storage
Machine downtime
Employee wages and electricity
Revenue from sales
The five focusing steps of TOC are:
Identify the constraint (find what is slowing down the system)
Exploit the constraint (use it as effectively as possible)
Subordinate everything else to the constraint (adjust other steps so they don’t outpace the bottleneck)
Elevate the constraint (make a bigger change if needed to fix it)
Repeat the process again (because the constraint may have moved)
In *The Goal*, what did Jonah describe as the “goal” of any business or production system?
A bottleneck is:
You’re working on a group project with limited access to tools and workspace. You notice one person is waiting a long time to use the saw.
Question:
What TOC step would you start with to solve this problem? Explain what you would do and why it helps the whole group.
A team of students is making wooden phone stands. The painting step is slowing everything down because they only have one station and it takes 10 minutes per stand. What TOC step(s) could help here, and what would you recommend?
