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¿Qué significa “ya que”?

When we played the paper airplane factory game, in Round 2 we only allowed the workers to produce planes when they had a not-full basket in front of them. This was an example of what Lean concept?

¿Qué significa “sobre todo”?

You observe a highway tollbooth for several hours and note that the number of cars in line fluctuates up and down randomly between 0 and 10. On average there are 3.4 cars in line at the tollbooth. Which statement must be false?  

Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons Charlie Hackett gave for doing manual assembly work in a multi-station sequential style (rather than a single worker doing the whole assembly)?

Which statement best describes what it means to “balance the line” in regard to a multi-station sequential process?

A hotel check-in desk has [m] workers. It takes a worker [p] minutes to serve one customer. What is the capacity of the hotel check-in desk (in customers per hour)?

Customers arrive to a queue at a rate of [arrival] per hour. On average, a customer waits [w] minutes in the queue before being served.  What is the average number of customers waiting to be served?

Process improvements can help increase revenues if the process is _________-constrained.

Each of these is a key metric in Little’s Law EXCEPT __________.