Advanced Lean and Enterprise Flashcards
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Which lean metric measures the percentage of time a process produces defect-free products at the required rate during planned production?
Answer: Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)
OEE = Availability × Performance × Quality, representing the share of planned production time that is truly productive.
In enterprise lean deployment, 'catchball' is a communication practice used during:
Answer: Hoshin kanri goal-setting and alignment between levels
Catchball is the iterative back-and-forth dialogue between organizational levels during hoshin kanri to ensure goals are feasible, understood, and owned.
Which of the following best describes 'value-added' work in a lean context?
Answer: Work the customer would pay for that transforms the product
Value-added work transforms the product in a way the customer cares about and would pay for; inspection, rework, and compliance steps are generally non-value-added.
What is the purpose of a 'supermarket' in a lean pull system?
Answer: A controlled inventory buffer that triggers replenishment via kanban
A supermarket is a strategically located, controlled inventory point where items are stored and replenished based on actual consumption signals (kanban).
In an enterprise lean context, which approach is most effective for sustaining continuous improvement culture long term?
Answer: Embedding daily kaizen habits and leader standard work at all levels
Sustainable lean culture requires embedding daily small improvements and leader standard work across all levels, not episodic events or passive suggestion systems.
What does 'poka-yoke' mean in lean manufacturing?
Answer: Error-proofing device or method that prevents or detects defects
Poka-yoke (mistake-proofing) uses devices or methods to prevent errors from occurring or to immediately detect them when they do.
A lean enterprise VSM future state shows a 'pacemaker process.' What is this process's role?
Answer: The single scheduling point that controls the pace of the entire value stream
The pacemaker is the one process in the future-state VSM that receives the production schedule; all upstream processes are pulled and all downstream processes flow from it.