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The document is a quiz about the seven wastes and lean manufacturing concepts. It contains 17 multiple choice questions testing knowledge about the categories of waste, key lean thinkers like Ohno and Shingo, concepts like jidoka, heijunka, kanban and muda. It also contains questions about inventory management calculations and examples of different types of waste like motion, processing, transportation and overproduction.

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7W Quiz Combo Answers

The document is a quiz about the seven wastes and lean manufacturing concepts. It contains 17 multiple choice questions testing knowledge about the categories of waste, key lean thinkers like Ohno and Shingo, concepts like jidoka, heijunka, kanban and muda. It also contains questions about inventory management calculations and examples of different types of waste like motion, processing, transportation and overproduction.

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7 Wastes Master Quiz Answers

1. Please select the three elements, or categories, of work.

Value-Added Work
Jidoka
Non Value-Added Work
Waste/Muda

2. Inventory is often referred to as the “mother of all wastes.”

True
False

3. Reaching or straining to reach a tool is an example of what type of waste?

Motion
Processing
Transportation
Inventory

4. The primary difference between the wastes of motion and transportation is that with
transportation we are moving goods or inventory and with motion people are moving
without goods or inventory.

True
False

5. Popularized the concept of “standing in the circle.”

Taiichi Ohno
Shigeo Shingo
Henry Ford
Jon Miller

6. Is 99% good (only 1% bad) an acceptable performance level for critical processes?

Yes
No
7. Pokayoke is often referred to as this.

Mistake Prone
Defect Free
Mistake Proofing
Mistake Free

8. The basic premise behind Jidoka is that machines are able to detect and stop when
an issue has occurred.

True
False

9. Given an average demand per day of 525 pieces, a lead-time to replenish this stock of
4 days, 2 standard deviations of demand history is 20%, and the max shortfall due to
internal inefficiencies is 10%, how much safety stock is needed? See “Inventory”
module if you need to review.

904 pieces
394 pieces
195 pieces
252 pieces

10. The waste of processing generally stems from the lack of understanding what?

Inventory Levels
Customer Needs
On time Delivery Performance
Internal Quality

11. Which is not an example of processing waste?

Smashing a peanut with your bare hands in order to eat it


Drilling a hole when punching it would do
Equipment that uses more energy than needed
Machines that are faster than they need to be

12. Is the word that describes production leveling or production smoothing.

Jidoka
Heijunka
Kanban
Shitsuke
13. Motion is any movement of people that does not add __________ to the product.

Cycle Time
Value
Defects
Muda

14. Wasted motion often leads to what. Select all that apply.

Long Changeovers
Higher Productivity
Less Inventory (Better Inventory Turns)

15. Moving inventory on sophisticated conveyor systems is a form of transportation


waste.

True
False

16. Overproduction is often referred to as the ____________ of all wastes.

brother
father
mother
nasty uncle

17. Sometimes called the 8th waste.

Waste of Skills
Waste of Motion
Waste of Inventory
Waste of Cash

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