1.

Question 1

Design for Six Sigma is the application of Six Sigma principles that is __________

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Employee driven

Supplier driven

Customer driven

Management driven

2.

Question 2

Some of the most common reasons for failure of new products include all except:

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Supplier issues

Poor timing of introduction

Technical or production problems

Lack of effective marketing effort

3.

Question 3

Fewer design changes/iterations translates into _____________

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fewer suppliers

fewer design engineers

fewer process steps

fewer prototypes during the design stage

4.

Question 4

In IDOV, validate mandates us to test and validate the ________.

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Material

Issue

Design

Process

5.

Question 5

Which process is well suited for customer delighters.

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DMADV

IDOV

DMADOV

DMEDI

6.

Question 6

___________pertains more to our long term goal and our plan for reaching our goal.

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Conceptual

Operational

Tactics

Strategic

7.

Question 7

Hoshin planning is known as ___________

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process planning

policy deployment

Process improvement

Strategic planning

8.

Question 8

Any organization desiring to exist in the long term should regularly perform a _________to ensure that the state of the market is leveraged to the advantage of the business.

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SWOT analysis

Porter's five forces model analysis

Six sigma analysis

Hoshin planning session

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Question 9

______ is a tool that helps us problem solve in an inventive manner.

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Porter's five forces model

Portfolio Architecting

Hoshin Planning

TRIZ

10.

Question 10

_____________considers not only the problem but also the other systems or environment surrounding the problem.

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Systematic Design

Axiomatic design

Critical Parameter Management

Pugh Analysis

11.

Question 11

It is best to tap those heavily involved in the product's development regarding DFX initiatives. Their knowledge can facilitate more elegant solutions.

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True

False

12.

Question 12

__________looks to minimize the number of different parts in the system. This reduces the number of parts we must maintain should they need to be replaced.

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Standardization

Malfunction annunciation

Interchangeability

Modularization

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Question 13

____________is the signal that tells the customer that something has failed.

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Interchangeability

Fault isolation

Malfunction annunciation

Accessibility

14.

Question 14

Design for assembly seeks to ease the act of assembly but also looks _______

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to ease the performance of corrective or preventive maintenance

to pivot toward component parts that can easily and inexpensively manufactured

to deploy lean principles such that motions are simple and ergonomic

to how easy it is to service the unit

15.

Question 15

The more reliable a component is, the less likelihood that we will have to service the component.

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False

True

16.

Question 16

Functionally robust implies that it can still function adequately under desired performance capabilities while in the presence of chance cause variation or noise.

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True

False

17.

Question 17

_______tolerancing is based on the quantities we use to define the extreme limits of the gap.

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Min/Max

Root Sum Squares

Absolute

Process

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Question 18

Along with customer expectations and process capability, ___________is a significant contributor toward the establishment of a robust design.

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Z score

tolerance analysis

stakeholder deliverables

Performance index

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Question 19

___________ is not data driven and more variable in its potential to produce tolerances that are either too liberal or too conservative.

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RSS with process data

Min/Max

Absolute tolerances

RSS based on drawing tolerances

20.

Question 20

If dimensions are independent, mean and variance can be combined

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Multiplicatively

Exponentially

Arithmetically

Geometrically

21.

Question 21

If two dimensions are dependent and their standard deviations are 0.019 and 0.024 respectively. The standard deviation of their sum will be __________. Assume the correlation is 0.71.

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0.0306

0.0016

0.0009

0.040

22.

Question 22

Conservatively speaking, it is wise to consider dimensions associated with same part to be __________

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Equal

Independent

different

dependent

23.

Question 23

___________seeks to achieve a consistent part to part customer experience as well as a lower cost product.

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The Taguchi loss function

Pugh Analysis

Critical Parameter Management

Porter's Five Forces

24.

Question 24

The average quality loss cost we will incur due to the defective product will be $225. Suppose we can perform a series of adjustments in the factory to facilitate use of the product at a cost $45. Calculate the economic safety factor.

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2

2.23

4

5

25.

Question 25

If our functional limit is +/- 6% of the diameter on a knob. The adjusted tolerance specification based on a safety factor of 3.53 is

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+/- 1.70 %

+/- 2.47 %

+/- 9.53 %

+/- 21.18 %