Question

"The Goal"-by Eliyahu M. Goldratt

Questions

1.In the theory of constraints, there are five steps that lead to continuous improvement. The second step after identifying the constraint is to exploit the constraint.

T or F

2. Who or what is Herbie?

3. When Alex meets Jonah in the airport for the first time in the book, Jonah gives Alex something that Alex keeps in his jacket. Two weeks later, Alex finds this item in his jacket and remembers Jonah and decides to contact him again. What was the object?

4.According to Jonah, “throughput” should be defined as how many units the assembly plant can produce over a given period of time

T or F

5. In this book one key point taught is that all processes in the plant should be:

6. In the beginning of the book, the first bottleneck identified that constrained the entire manufacturing process was the final manual inspection process.

T or F

7.According to this book the goal of a firm is to make what?

8.What activity helps Alex gain insight into the concepts Jonah is trying to teach?

9.Step 4 in the process of continuous improvement (theory of constraints) is to estimate the constraint

T or F

10. Firms should measure progress/success by focusing on?

Answer 1

1. In the theory of constraints, there are five steps that lead to continuous improvement. The second step after identifying the constraint is to exploit the constraint.

Answer : True. The constraint is the stage in the process which determines the throughput. Hence, this constraint has to be exploited to maximum so as to extract maximum output from it. Hence, once the constraint is identified in 1st step, it is then exploited in second step

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