Three Minutes a Car: teacher key

Factories, grade 10 edition, written for 10th grade. What Ford's line did to costs and pay, and what Toyota changed afterward.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

Why did Ford's paint become a bottleneck?
- Paint was free
- The line was so fast that paint could not keep up (answer)
- Paint was black
What happened to a Model T's price between 1908 and 1912?
- It doubled
- It stayed the same
- It fell from about $825 to about $575 (answer)
What does jidoka let a machine do?
- Stop automatically when it detects a problem (answer)
- Run faster
- Ignore errors
Where did Toyota get the idea for just-in-time stocking?
- A car race
- A farm
- Studying supermarkets in the late 1940s (answer)
What does bottleneck mean here?
- A bottle shop
- A step that slows everything (answer)
- A fast machine