Garment applications quiz

Knowledge check

Pick one answer per question. Explanations appear after you submit.

1. 1. Marker efficiency should be measured as:

   • Area used / area available
   • Time per marker
   • Number of pieces
   • Layers cut

2. 2. Bundle-accuracy problem discovered at end-line. Next action:

   • Blame sewing
   • Trace back to the bundling operation and rebuild operational definitions
   • Increase inspection
   • Change supplier

3. 3. Line balance improves when:

   • The fastest station speeds up
   • Cycle times of stations are levelled toward Takt
   • The slowest station is ignored
   • Overtime is added

4. 4. Shade variation across wash lots is best investigated with:

   • Random sampling
   • Stratified sampling by lot/recipe/operator
   • Convenience sample
   • Only rejected lots

5. 5. OEE dropped despite higher speed setting. Likely cause:

   • Speed is always good
   • Speed increased performance but reduced quality (rework) or availability (breakdowns)
   • Operators failed
   • Instrument miscalibration

6. 6. OTD improvements that come from reducing scope:

   • Are valid
   • Change the CTQ — they must be disclosed to buyer/sponsor
   • Are prohibited
   • Automatic

7. 7. Repair-cost baseline requires:

   • No baseline
   • Defect count × repair cost per unit and hours × rate over a defined period
   • Estimation by memory
   • Sponsor's estimate

8. 8. Supplier quality problem repeats every 3 months. Next action:

   • Fine them
   • Joint problem-solving on their process and inputs; audit measurement
   • Change supplier
   • Ignore

9. 9. A project shifts cost to unpaid worker overtime. Response:

   • Accept — output rose
   • Reject — worker welfare is a hard guardrail
   • Escalate to HR only
   • Ignore

10. 10. Metric gaming (e.g., re-labelling defects) is:

    • Efficient
    • Data-integrity failure — remove the incentive, restore the definition
    • Standard
    • The BEELT's problem alone