Counting Robots: teacher key

Factories, grade 11 edition, written for 11th grade. Smart factories, quality control and the robots now at work.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

Which country had the world's highest robot density in 2024?
- Chad
- The Republic of Korea (answer)
- Peru
What are the eight kinds of waste called at Toyota?
- Jidoka
- Andon
- Muda (answer)
What happened to Ford's turnover rate after the pay increase, by Ford's claim?
- It fell from 31.9% to 1.4% (answer)
- It rose
- It stayed the same
Why does lean go further than just-in-time?
- It stocks more parts
- It uses fewer robots
- It cuts cycle, flow and throughput time across the whole system (answer)
What does wages mean here?
- A kind of cloth
- Pay for work (answer)
- A machine