Answer Key

Course: Transforming your Value Streams Module: Value Stream Overview

1. cash

2. is updated many times after it’s first created

3. bottom area

4. Process Level (cell level) Factory Level (Door to Door) Enterprise Level

5. False

6. Flow

7. The actual place

8. 1) Select Product Family Map

2) Map the Current State 3) Map the Future State 4) Create a Detailed Action Plan

9. breaking, busting, storming

10. Ideal state

Answer Key

Course: Transforming your Value Streams

Module: Product Family Selection

1. Attempting to boil the ocean (attempting to do too much at one time)

2. Product Quantity (PQ) Analysis

3. Collect historical data (units and sales) Complete a Pareto Analysis Analyze Results

4.

5. True

Answer KeyCourse: Transforming your Value Streams Module: VSM Shapes and Icons

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

Answer Key

Course: Transforming your Value Streams Module: Calculating Takt Time

1. German

2. False

3. heart beat

4. customer demand per day

5. 4

Answer Key

Course: Transforming your Value Streams

Module: Current State Part 2

1. Gemba

2. True

3. Actual data captured by the team

4. Takt Time = Sets the pace or rhythm of the process

Cycle Time = Describes how often a part is completed by a particular process

Production Lead Time = The time it takes one piece to travel all the way through the value system.

Manual Cycle Time = The time a person is needed to operate a machine

5. Amount of Inventory on Hand/Daily Demand

6. 5

7.

8. True

9. Value Added Time/Production Lead Time

10. 11 days

Answer Key

Course: Transforming your Value Streams Module: Continuous Flow

1. 1) Become the thing 2) Break through 3) Keep the thing moving

2. batch flow

3. fake flow

4. one piece flow

5. True

Course: Transforming your Value Streams Module: Cycle Time & Takt Time

1. Helps identify the resources needed to run the operation Helps create a smooth flow of work from one process to the next Helps identify bottlenecks

2. Weld bar

3. 1) Eliminate 2) Combine 3) Rearrange 4) Simplify

4. P = Sum Manual Cycle Time/Takt Time

5. 10

Answer Key

Course: Module:

Transforming your Value Streams Downstream Pull

1. MRP Forecast Push System

2. nervous

3.

4. Pacemaker

5. Replenishment Pull System

6. Sequential Pull System

7. True

Course: Transforming your Value Streams Module: Production Leveling

1. smoothing or leveling

2. Mura

3. Muri

4. True

5. You make what customer wants when they want it (JIT)

It becomes possible for smooth one-piece flow and Standard Work to be established

We’re able to smooth the signals throughout supply chain

6. True

Answer Key

Course: Module:

Transforming your Value Streams The Future State - 2

1. Takt Time x Efficiency Factor

2. 1) Where must we pull with kanban to maintain flow? 2) Will we pull sequentially or based on replenishment? 3) Where will we schedule production (Pacemaker)?

3. human

4. Detect the abnormality

Stop Fix or correct the immediate condition Investigate the root cause and install a countermeasure

5. What, Who, and When (Develop an Action Plan)

6. True