Question

Determine if each statement would relate to a lean manufacturing system or a traditional manufacturing system.

a. Employees are cross-trained for several machines in one division.

b. Management emphasizes that defects should not occur.

c. Products are manufactured based upon estimated sales.

Answer 1

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Explanation:

A)lean

B)lean

C)traditional

In Lean manufacturing system works are done reduce inventory levels below what would be found in a traditional manufacturing system. The company does so by reducing batches into smaller batch sizes rather than large batch sizes. Goods are produced through product cells rather than departments.

Within-batch wait time is time that product waits in a product cell for the other products in a batch, it is calculated by multiplying the value-added time per unit by number of other products ,one less the total batch size