The Goal By Eliyahu Goldratt Max UPDATED Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
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The Goal By Eliyahu Goldratt Max
UPDATED Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
main character - Correct Answer- alex rogo
company - Correct Answer- unico
problem - Correct Answer- everything is late, working on overtime,not making money
Peach - Correct Answer- division vice president
alex's jo...
The Goal By Eliyahu Goldratt Max
UPDATED Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
main character - Correct Answer- alex rogo
company - Correct Answer- unico
problem - Correct Answer- everything is late, working on overtime,not making money
Peach - Correct Answer- division vice president
alex's job - Correct Answer- plant manager
how long does the division have to improve - Correct Answer- 1 year
how long does the plant have to improve - Correct Answer- 3 months
Jonah - Correct Answer- old physics professor, consultant
what does jonah tell alex during the first meeting at the airport - Correct Answer- -productiviy
is meaningless unless you know a goal
-preducts the high inventories and late orders
-tell alex to not think like everyone else
what does alex decide the goal is? - Correct Answer- TO MAKE MONEY----not to fill
warehouses full of inventory
what is the absolute measurement ? relative measurement? - Correct Answer- net profit needs
to increase (absolute) along with increasing ROI...return on investment... and cash flow
(relative)
,throughput - Correct Answer- the rate at which the system generates money through
SALES...money coming in
inventory - Correct Answer- the money that the system has invested in purchasing things
which it intends to sell
operational expense - Correct Answer- all the money the system spends in order to turn
inventory into throughput
Stacey - Correct Answer- inventory control women
Bob - Correct Answer- production manager
Lou - Correct Answer- accounting
robots - Correct Answer- the robots actually increased costs and didn't decrease any costs
statistical fluctuations - Correct Answer- types of information that vary from one instance to
the next
dependent events - Correct Answer- events that depend on something else happening before
they can happen
in an efficient plant should everyone be working all the time? - Correct Answer- no
what is a balanced plant - Correct Answer- when the capacity of each and every resource is
balanced exactly with demand from the market
Herbie - Correct Answer- -slow kid on the boy scout camping trip that kept messing up the
flow of the marching line
-he helped alex understand dependent events and statistical fluctuations
,how does alex decide that a balanced plant is not the answer? - Correct Answer- dice game/
match bowl experiment....showed that because of statistical fluctuations and dependent events
throughput goes down and inventory goes up
how does alex fix the herbie problem on the hike? - Correct Answer- he put him at the front
of the line and relieved him of his pack...this valences fluctuations and increased his
productivity which increased throughput of the team
bottleneck - Correct Answer- any resource whose capacity is equal to or less than the demand
placed on it
nonbottleneck - Correct Answer- any resource whose capacity is greater than the demand
placed on it
should the resources at the beginning have more capacity or should the resources at the end? -
Correct Answer- the ones at the end should have more capacity
what should you balance with demand - Correct Answer- the flow of product through the
plant
why does every plant need bottlenecks? - Correct Answer- if they didn't they would have
enormous excess capactiy
how do they increase the capacity of the plant - Correct Answer- they need more capacity at
the bottlenecks
how do they make the bottle necks more efficent - Correct Answer- -make them run
continuously
-put quality control before the bottle necks so that the bottle necks are only working on
quality products
-they relieved workload on the bottle necks by giving some work to vendors
how much does it cost when a bottle neck is down - Correct Answer- 2735= the cost of the
entire system
-because without the parts from the bottlenecks you can't sell the products
, does alex use FIFO or LIFO - Correct Answer- FIFO--first in first out...most overdue orders
first
what was the tag system - Correct Answer- a way to communicate to the workers which
parts/orders were important
green tags - Correct Answer- non bottleneck material, second priority (always work on batch
with lower number)
red tag - Correct Answer- first priority, materials processed by bottle neck, work on them
right away (only allowed to finish another order if it takes less than 1/2 and hour) ((always
work on batch with lowest number))
what is another thing that helped with the bottle necks - Correct Answer- they found
complement machines
why are workers not at the bottlenecks when batches need to be changed - Correct Answer-
they are under the impression that they have to be constantly working, so they don't want to
just wait on batches to be done
what does the night foreman make a difference on the bottleneck - Correct Answer- he finds a
process by mixing and matching order priority that increases efficiency by 10 percent
what happened when they new priority system starts working? - Correct Answer- inventory
decreases and it revealed more "bottlenecks"
what is the problem with working non-bottlenecks to capacity on bottleneck parts (red) -
Correct Answer- because now there are stacks of bottleneck parts that need non bottleneck
parts for final assembly...the red and green tags need to be modified
what does alex decide he needs to fix the problem with non bottlenecks and bottleneck -
Correct Answer- a signal to link the bottlenecks with the release-of-materials schedule
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