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.

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

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.

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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.