1. Reduced overhead costs for material movers & expediters, is a benefit of using the days of supply calculation. T/F
2. A wine bottling machine can bottle 23 hours a day. The total output is 89 bottles a day. Each bottle takes about 5 minutes to produce.
3 minutes to process and 2 minutes setup time. The Overall Equipment Effectiveness is______. Round to the 3rd decimal place.
3. McDonalds has a multiple stations to produce their BIC MAC (Station 1, 2, & 3). Between station 1 & 2 there is a gap in the workstation where the cook has to pick up the W-I-P and bring it to station 2. This is an example of which 8 commonly recognized sources of waste? Overproduction
Waiting
Unnecessary production
Inappropiate process
Unnecessary inventory
Unnecessary/excess motion
Defects
Underutilization of employees / waste of intellect
4. _______ can best be described as constant incremental improvement in a firms processing.
5. In the video we watched in class on the Virginia Mason hospital, they were able to leverage complete enthusiasm of their employees for a successful implementation. T/F
6. Provide an example of why a firm may have low annual inventory turns?
7. The lose of sale and lose of customer, lose of sale, lose of sale and gain of another sale, or customer waiting for inventory is a result of a _______.
8. A process that falls within the UCL and LCL, means that process is in ___________.
9. An example of natural variation, is the ever-so-slight differences in the dimensions of a piece of paper. T/F