A Cambridge, Ontario stamping plant links its press shop to final assembly with a kanban pull system. Switching a press from one part number to the next takes 90 minutes, so the press shop runs each part in lots of 600 to spread that time over more units. [OPMG Exam – AI assistance is prohibited.] Assembly wants lots closer to 50. Which change makes the smaller lot economical for the press shop?

A Winnipeg window manufacturer completes a current-state value stream map. Production lead time is 26 days, of which only 3.5 hours is actual processing; the remainder of the timeline is idle material queued at five points along the route. Departments build to a weekly forecast. [OPMG Exam – AI assistance is prohibited.] Based on this map, which future-state change should the plant pursue first?

In a kanban pull system, the number of containers in circulation between two stages sets an upper limit on the work-in-process inventory held between them. [OPMG Exam – AI assistance is prohibited.]

In a hub-and-spoke network, the hub is normally sited near the geographic centre of the region it serves in order to shorten travel distances. [OPMG Exam – AI assistance is prohibited.]

The 60 Minutes report entitled “Gay or Straight” demonstrated that the aspects of human development that science once thought were genetically related are in fact related to:

Which of the following best describes what Susan Saint James said to her family immediately after her son’s death that set the tone for how they all grieved.

Conception occurs in the _____________.

Crawling is required for walking.

Once a child has reached the age of two, their motor skills become very responsive to:

Which of the following illustrates Piaget’s interactionist philosophy with his theory of cognitive development?