Manufacturing Tests

OEE Basics — Advanced

Advanced OEE use: line and plant roll-ups, OEE versus capacity and TEEP, loss accounting policy, cascading targets, analytics pitfalls, and linking OEE to constraint management. Strategic manufacturing metrics, not legal or financial advice.

OEE Basics — Intermediate

Applying OEE in daily operations: mapping losses to availability, performance, and quality; changeovers; micro-stops; ideal cycle time governance; and common data traps. Manufacturing metrics practice, not vendor certification.

OEE Basics — Beginner

Foundations of Overall Equipment Effectiveness: the three factors (availability, performance, quality), basic formulas, planned production time, and reading simple OEE results. Manufacturing metrics, not machine-specific vendor training.

Capacity Planning — Advanced

Strategic and tactical capacity under constraints: TOC drum-buffer-rope, investment timing, mixed-model loading, yield and scrap in load, finite scheduling interactions, and multi-site capacity balancing. Mix of single-answer and multiple-answer items; multi-select questions ask you to select every correct statement.

Capacity Planning — Intermediate

Capacity Requirements Planning, finite versus infinite loading trade-offs, bottleneck focus, level loading, alternate routings, and reconciling overload with MPS and shop reality. Mix of single-answer and multiple-answer items; multi-select questions ask you to select every correct statement.

Capacity Planning — Beginner

Foundations of manufacturing capacity: rated vs available hours, load versus capacity, work centers, utilization, and how MRP output connects to capacity checks. Mix of single-answer and multiple-answer items; multi-select questions ask you to select every correct statement.

MRP Basics — Advanced

Advanced MRP: closing the loop with capacity and suppliers, planning BOMs, co-products, DRP handoffs, forecast consumption, and stabilizing plans under uncertainty. Mix of single-answer and multiple-answer items; multi-select questions ask you to select every correct statement.

MRP Basics — Intermediate

Intermediate MRP: lot-sizing rules, regenerative versus net-change processing, planning fences, pegging, phantoms, scrap factors, and reading action messages. Mix of single-answer and multiple-answer items; multi-select questions ask you to select every correct statement.

MRP Basics — Beginner

Core Material Requirements Planning ideas: master schedule linkage, BOM explosion, inventory netting, lead-time offsetting, and acting on planned orders. Mix of single-answer and multiple-answer items; multi-select questions ask you to select every correct statement.

Incident & Near-Miss Reporting — Advanced

Advanced manufacturing EHS reporting: SIF precursors, OSHA recordkeeping judgment, regulatory notifications, bow-tie and barrier thinking, human-performance factors, leading indicators, audit defensibility, and cross-site learning. Mix of single-answer and multiple-answer items.

Incident & Near-Miss Reporting — Intermediate

Operational incident and near-miss reporting: severity tiers, triage, investigation triggers, witness statements, corrective actions, contractor events, LOTO-related near misses, and metrics for EHS dashboards. Mix of single-answer and multiple-answer items.

Incident & Near-Miss Reporting — Beginner

Foundations of manufacturing safety reporting: incident vs near miss, timely notification, no-blame culture, basic report fields, stop-work, and using reports to prevent harm. Mix of single-answer and multiple-answer items.

PPE Awareness — Advanced

Advanced PPE awareness: respiratory protection programs, assigned protection factors, donning/doffing and cross-contamination, ensemble selection for IDLH vs. maintenance tasks, standards traceability, and auditing PPE effectiveness after incidents.

PPE Awareness — Intermediate

Intermediate PPE awareness: hazard-based selection, fit and compatibility, limitations of common gear, maintenance and inspection, chemical and cut/puncture gloves, and coordinating PPE with permits and zones.

PPE Awareness — Beginner

Foundational personal protective equipment (PPE) awareness: why PPE is used, common types, hazard matching, employer and worker duties, and basic care before entering work areas.

HSE Basics — Advanced

Advanced HSE judgment: bow-tie and barrier thinking, process safety interfaces, serious incident escalation, environmental permits, audit findings, and integrating HSE into management of change. Mix of single-answer and multiple-answer items; multi-select questions ask you to select every correct statement.

HSE Basics — Intermediate

Applied HSE: risk assessment steps, hierarchy of controls, permits, contractor coordination, incident investigation basics, and environmental compliance awareness. Mix of single-answer and multiple-answer items; multi-select questions ask you to select every correct statement.

HSE Basics — Beginner

Foundations of workplace health, safety, and environment: hazards, reporting, PPE basics, housekeeping, and emergency awareness. Mix of single-answer and multiple-answer items; multi-select questions ask you to select every correct statement. Not site-specific legal advice.

ISO Quality — Advanced

Advanced ISO 9001 literacy: organizational context, interested parties, integration with other management systems, audit program design, objective evidence vs opinion, post-delivery activities, change control, and strategic use of performance evaluation. Mix of single-answer and multiple-answer items; multi-select questions ask you to select every correct statement.

ISO Quality — Intermediate

Applied ISO 9001 literacy: risk-based thinking, document control, internal audit findings, corrective action effectiveness, supplier evaluation, calibration traceability, and management review inputs. Mix of single-answer and multiple-answer items; multi-select questions ask you to select every correct statement.

ISO Quality — Beginner

Foundational literacy in ISO 9001-style quality management: QMS purpose, process approach, PDCA, documented information, nonconformities, and basic audit vocabulary. Mix of single-answer and multiple-answer items; multi-select questions ask you to select every correct statement.

Root Cause Mfg — Advanced

Advanced manufacturing RCA: fault trees, latent conditions, systemic causes, effectiveness verification, supplier boundaries, poka-yoke, and management-system roots. Mix of single-answer and multiple-answer items.

Root Cause Mfg — Intermediate

Operational manufacturing RCA: 8D containment, is/is-not analysis, escape points, change analysis, PFMEA links, team practices, and validating countermeasures. Mix of single-answer and multiple-answer items.

Root Cause Mfg — Beginner

Manufacturing root cause basics: symptoms vs causes, containment, 5 Whys, fishbone categories, gemba, problem statements, and verifying fixes. Mix of single-answer and multiple-answer items.

SPC Basics — Advanced

Advanced SPC judgment: autocorrelation, short-run and target charts, EWMA/CUSUM concepts, multivariate awareness, OC curves, non-normal data, and integrating SPC with MSA and PPAP evidence. Mix of single-answer and multiple-answer items; multi-select questions ask you to select every correct statement.

SPC Basics — Intermediate

Applied SPC: Western Electric-style signals, attribute charts, capability indices (Cp/Cpk), gage influence, phase I vs ongoing monitoring, and reaction plans. Mix of single-answer and multiple-answer items; multi-select questions ask you to select every correct statement.

SPC Basics — Beginner

Foundations of statistical process control: variation, control charts, subgroups, control vs specification limits, and basic reaction to signals. Mix of single-answer and multiple-answer items; multi-select questions ask you to select every correct statement.

Kaizen — Advanced

Continuous improvement events, PDCA, idea systems, and shop-floor problem solving culture. Mix of single-answer and multiple-answer items; multi-select questions ask you to select every correct statement.

Kaizen — Intermediate

Continuous improvement events, PDCA, idea systems, and shop-floor problem solving culture. Mix of single-answer and multiple-answer items; multi-select questions ask you to select every correct statement.

Kaizen — Beginner

Continuous improvement events, PDCA, idea systems, and shop-floor problem solving culture. Mix of single-answer and multiple-answer items; multi-select questions ask you to select every correct statement.

Value Stream — Advanced

Current/future state maps, takt, cycle time, inventory, and flow improvement. Mix of single-answer and multiple-answer items; multi-select questions ask you to select every correct statement.

Value Stream — Intermediate

Current/future state maps, takt, cycle time, inventory, and flow improvement. Mix of single-answer and multiple-answer items; multi-select questions ask you to select every correct statement.

Value Stream — Beginner

Current/future state maps, takt, cycle time, inventory, and flow improvement. Mix of single-answer and multiple-answer items; multi-select questions ask you to select every correct statement.

5S Basics — Advanced

5S workplace organization: Sort, Set in Order, Shine, Standardize, Sustain—visual standards and audits.

5S Basics — Intermediate

5S workplace organization: Sort, Set in Order, Shine, Standardize, Sustain—visual standards and audits.

5S Basics — Beginner

5S workplace organization: Sort, Set in Order, Shine, Standardize, Sustain—visual standards and audits.