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A kanban system mainly limits the build-up of which item at any point?Read the answer and worked solution →Kanban sets an upper limit on which type of inventory?Read the answer and worked solution →Early two-bin signalling, a kanban forerunner, began in UK factories making which aircraft?Read the answer and worked solution →Toyota first applied kanban logic in its main plant machine shop in which year?Read the answer and worked solution →What does kanban use to control the rate of production?Read the answer and worked solution →How many rules has Toyota formulated for applying kanban?Read the answer and worked solution →Under Toyota's kanban rules, when may an item be made or moved?Read the answer and worked solution →What does a kanban card signal?Read the answer and worked solution →In a three-bin kanban system, where is the inventory control point?Read the answer and worked solution →Which kanban authorizes a workstation to produce a fixed amount?Read the answer and worked solution →Which kanban authorizes moving a full container to the next workstation?Read the answer and worked solution →Electronic kanban replaces physical cards with what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which cycle is Deming particularly recognized for?Read the answer and worked solution →Which kaizen type covers communication of improvements upstream and downstream of a process?Read the answer and worked solution →Which kaizen type has lean spread across the whole organisation, suppliers and customers?Read the answer and worked solution →Which 5S step removes all unnecessary items from a work location?Read the answer and worked solution →Which 5S step puts necessary items in their optimal place for use?Read the answer and worked solution →Which 5S step cleans and inspects the workplace, tools and machinery regularly?Read the answer and worked solution →Which 5S step relies on worker self-discipline?Read the answer and worked solution →In the sort step, where go items that cannot be removed at once?Read the answer and worked solution →5S is identified as a technique that enabled which system?Read the answer and worked solution →In some firms 5S becomes 6S. What is the sixth element?Read the answer and worked solution →Whose 1995 work described 5S in terms of five pillars?Read the answer and worked solution →Who formalized poka-yoke as part of the Toyota Production System?Read the answer and worked solution →Poka-yoke was first called what before being softened?Read the answer and worked solution →A poka-yoke device that checks the prescribed order of steps is which method?Read the answer and worked solution →A mistake becomes a defect, per Shingo, when it does what?Read the answer and worked solution →Who developed Total Productive Maintenance in Japan between 1950 and 1970?Read the answer and worked solution →What is the main objective of TPM?Read the answer and worked solution →How are the three OEE factors combined into one measure?Read the answer and worked solution →

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A kanban system mainly limits the build-up of which item at any point?

  1. Skilled labour
  2. Machine hours
  3. Customer orders
  4. Excess inventory
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Correct answer: D. Excess inventory

Limits on items waiting at supply points are set so that excess inventory cannot pile up.

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Kanban sets an upper limit on which type of inventory?

  1. Spare parts
  2. Raw material
  3. Finished goods
  4. Work in process
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Correct answer: D. Work in process

One main benefit is an upper limit on work in process, which avoids overcapacity.

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Early two-bin signalling, a kanban forerunner, began in UK factories making which aircraft?

  1. Hurricane
  2. Lancaster
  3. Spitfire
  4. Mosquito
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Correct answer: C. Spitfire

The empty-box replenishment signal was first developed in UK factories producing Spitfires in the Second World War.

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