General Kaizen Certification MCQs

1. When different departments within an organization are compared, it is referred to as ___________.

2. Which tool makes use of symbols?

3. ________is a tool used for establishing a correlation between two sets of variables.

4. Who is called the Father of Quality Control?

5. A guide acts as a link between the top management and the lower level employees.

6. Which technique was created by Japanese anthropologist Jiro Kawakita?

7. What is Takt Time?

8. Which traditional Japanese methodology has Kaizen evolved from?

9. Who is the founder of Kaizen?

10. JIT manufacturing is best suited for regular and simple production systems because it is primarily a ___________ manufacturing process.

11. Result oriented thinking is preferred in the West.

12. Kaizen is a tool applied in all _______ systems.

13. ________is a process that is followed by understanding the Voice of the Customer (VOC).

14. Which one is not a horizontal line used in control charts?

15. Kaizen also amends and upgrades product quality, communications, production competence and employee holding.

16. A check sheet is a diagrammatic representation of the nature and the flow of work in a process.

17. Lean is made of a lot of 'Kaizens' put together.

18. By whom was the word Lean coined?

19. Who introduced the concept of 'mass production'?

20. What does Kanban mean?

21. Kaizen is a function which when done correctly, modifies the workplace, reduces the three MU'S namely Muda, Muri and Mura and adds value to each system.

22. A process decision program chart should be prepared before implementing any plan especially when:

23. Who allocates roles and responsibilities to the team members who carry out the Kaizen implementation?

24. Which technique is a means of organizing disjointed ideas?

25. Process oriented thinking answers 'what' before 'how'.

26. Which one is an example of the prevention cost?

27. The data that does not need to be communicated in a Visual Factory environment are:

28. How many wastes are identified by Lean?

29. Which one is also known as the hierarchy diagram?

30. Which are the features of a Lean enterprise?

31. Who is referred to as the father of Just In Time Management?

32. Which one is not a use of a Matrix diagram?

33. Which one is not a part of the first stage in the implementation of Kaizen?

34. Which one is not an example of the appraisal cost?

35. Which are the two main functions of Kaizen that an organization has to perform apart from the other goals like removal of waste and quality management?

36. ________works well where short term changes and individual cultures need a modification.

37. Which Kaizen model is also called Lean Production or Stockless production?

38. Just in Time Management believes in holding buffer stocks.

39. Which one is not an element of standard work?

40. _________ means to clear the work area.

41. 'Poka Yoke' is the tools and methods used to prevent any defect during the production process.

42. What does the 80/20 principle state?

43. Which levels of Kaizen affects the entire manufacturing process?

44. Which among the following tools is used for problem solving?

45. What does SOP stand for?

46. Which tool shows the 'critical path' of the 'critical' tasks; those tasks that must be completed on time to maintain the project's deadline?

47. What is a Kaizen event?

48. Which one is created in the following manner? 1.First, decide the importance of each criterion, assign numerical weights. 2.Then rate each option according to the intensity of the correlation with the criteria or according to how well it meets the criterion. 3. Finally, combine all ratings for a final ranking of the options numerically.

49. Which Kaizen model is also described as 'medical science of machines'?

50. __________helps to locate the wastes in the value chain.

51. ________are used as a graphic tool to display continuous occurrence of data values.

52. The Shewhart Cycle has been used in Lean, TQM (Total Quality Management) and _______________.

53. Which one is not done by poka-yoke?

54. The various kinds of Kanban include:

55. Which are three MU's that are reduced by Kaizen?

56. A Kanban is a label or a card which is affixed on a container of a stock or lot and carries a message attached to it regarding the requirements needed in the workplace

57. Which one is an intensive approach to carry out improvements in the process?

58. When the performance of the organization is compared to organizations in the same industry but which cater to different markets other than the organization's, it is known as _____.

59. Which one cannot be considered a waste?

60. Which one is not a cost of quality?

61. What are the key principles of all the Kaizen Models?