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__________ is a method of eliminating highs and lows of a production process by scheduling the production of different products in the correct quantity and at a constant rate while maintaining a long term schedule matched to customer demand.

The purpose of external function checks is to make sure that __________.

__________ manufacturing is the practice of positioning equipment, people, and workstations close together in the order of the process flow to eliminate movement and transportation waste and thereby more efficiently make the product.

__________ is a formula that demonstrates the relationship between Work-In-Process, Throughput, and Process Cycle Time.

To make visual schedules more relevant for the team members, the information should be __________.

What is a common mistake that is made during time and motion studies?

The maximum number of poka-yoke devices that can be used on one process is __________.

Sustain is best described as __________ maintaining the procedures developed in S1-S3 and the standards established in S4.

Machine maintenance systems often use visual information to reduce __________ by making it faster for a maintenance person to determine what action to take and assure that the action is correctly taken.

In a __________ system, when a downstream workstation withdraws a product from an upstream workstation, a signal, such as a card or simply an empty container, is left in its place, authorizing the upstream workstation to make another unit to replace the one that was withdrawn.