To decrease time to market for discrete products, it is most effective to improve which of the following phases?
Operation-to-operation quantity reporting is most important to which of the following production environments?
A work center has a balance between the scheduled input and output over the next 4 weeks. One of the three machines in the work center will be out of service for 1 week. Currently, three operators work the first shift, one operator works the second shift, and each has a 40-hour work week. Which of the following actions is best to take to maintain the schedule?
Which of the following concepts is a reason to create a visual factory?
A factory is at capacity in a period of stable demand. Which of the following actions would be best to maintain the competitive advantage when product variety is expected to increase?
Which of the following approaches should improve a supplier's quality, price, and delivery performance?
The next job to be performed was selected because it had the least amount of operation time prior to the due date. Which of the following priority sequencing rules was being used?
A plant that implements a total preventive maintenance program would be likely to:
After some investigation, a packaging company determined that all of its defective containers were being delivered by one of their third-party trucking companies. What quality tool would have been used to find this information?
Scheduling to less-than-full capacity facilitates which of the following outcomes?
A work center has one machine that is operated for one shift per day. The shop runs an 8-hour shift 5 days per week. Machine utilization has been 60% with efficiency at 80%. A routing through this work center has a standard run time of .10 hours per piece. Job number 1234 is for 200 pieces. If the utilization is improved to 80%, the difference in calculated lead time for the job is how many days?
A kanban shop floor control system has which of the following characteristics?
Which of the following basic layout principles should be applied to improve work flow?
Capability index is useful to predict which of the following factors?
Group technology identifies the common characteristics of parts on the basis of which of the following factors?