Question

1)A “Pure Project” organizational structure means one in which:

a) The team members often feel they have too many bosses.

b) A self-contained team of different specialists work together full-time on a single project.

c) A project is housed within one functional division within a company.

d) The X-bar and R-Bar charts are always in complete control.

2)Which of the following is an essential element of lean production?

a)Waste reduction

b)Multiple suppliers

c)Safety stock increases

d)Push production system

3)Lean Production is often closely associated with which of the following concepts?

a)Periodic Order Review

b)Six Sigma Quality

c)Efficient Consumer Response

d)Muda

4)A bakery makes chocolate-covered cherries that are world famous. The five step process includes:
1) selecting cherries and boiling them in a sugary sauce,
2) pouring a small amount of chocolate onto wax-paper,
3) setting a cherry with sauce onto the chocolate,
4) pouring chocolate over the cherry, and

5) removing the cherry from the waxed paper with no damage and placing it in the box.

So far, the store made 5000 chocolate-covered cherries, and the store owner rejected 350 of the chocolate-covered cherries. This results in a DPMO of approximately:

a)1

b)3

c)14,000

d)70,000

e)350,000