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Date November 2018 Marks available 1 Reference code 18N.1.HL.TZ0.33
Level HL Paper 1 Time zone no time zone
Command term Question number 33 Adapted from N/A

Question

At the car manufacturing plant, teams work together to eliminate waste such as cutting time spent waiting for parts to arrive, reducing unnecessary movement in work cells, eliminating over-processing and over-production.

This strategy, where everyone works together to eliminate waste during manufacture, is a key principle of…

A. Mass customization

B. Lean production

C. Automation

D. Computer integrated manufacturing (CIM)

Markscheme

B

Examiners report

[N/A]

Syllabus sections

Topic 10: Commercial production » 10.2 Lean production
Topic 10: Commercial production

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