A company offers a bundle of products and services and allows customers to select the set of them that best fits their needs. Which of the following attributes of the product and service design process would typically be the most important in this situation?

Which is associated with backward scheduling?

Preventive maintenance is important in all companies, but is usually the smallest portion of the maintenance budget. For a lean manufacturing environment, preventive maintenance is critical for which of the following reasons?
1. Unplanned downtime due to breakdown is avoided;
2. It allows the production line to produce saleable units;
3. It extends the useful life of equipment thereby delaying investment in new equipment;

To which of the following types of delivery can Kanban methods be applied?
1. Within a plant
2. From plant to plant
3. From suppliers to plants

Which of the following are important criteria for achieving changes in individual behavior?
1. Top management leadership
2. Peer confirmation
3. Continuing reinforcement

Supplier development are used in JIT most often includes:

Repetitive manufacturing environments are characterized by which of the following?
1. Use if schedules instead of work orders
2. Consistent flow of finished products
3. Inventory issue transactions used for inventory

Work teams which operate highly focused segments of the production process without external supervision or reporting are called:

Taking the long-term review, marketing needs to be closely involved with a JIT initiative primarily so that

The time required by a production employee in a JIT environment for indirect duties during a shift would best be accomplished by

The most important ingredient in any JIT implementation project is: