ITPEC IP April 2022 Question 89
ITPEC IP April 2022 — Question 89 of 100
Just-in-time production obtains components when they are needed and maintains only an appropriate level of work in process. Kanban signals downstream consumption to upstream processes, supporting a pull system. This reduces excess inventory, storage, waiting, and other waste while exposing production problems.
Answer (b)
Why not others:
- (a) is outsourcing and does not define lean production
- (c) deliberately overproduces, one of the principal wastes that lean seeks to eliminate
- (d) describes one-person production and is not the defining JIT or kanban mechanism
Key rule: Lean uses pull flow and JIT to produce only what is needed, when needed, in the needed quantity.
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