Factory Edition Quiz

A forklift driver sneezes mid-turn and crashes into 30 pallets of toilet paper. What do you do?

• Blame allergies

• Elevate the sneeze constraint

• Put the forklift on a performance improvement plan

• Reevaluate training and forklift paths (…but also allergies)

The factory accidentally printed 5,000 shirts that say “Thnak You!” What’s the move?

• Start a new ironic fashion brand

• Cry

• Blame the intern

• Ship them anyway, no one will notice

There’s a bottleneck at the taco assembly line. Shells keep cracking. What’s your TOC fix?

• Replace all shells with waffles

• Slow down the filling step and add a tortilla QA station

• Invent edible duct tape

• Encourage customers to embrace the mess

True or False: If you run faster, the conveyor belt will go faster.

• True

• False

True or False: Safety goggles can also be used to hold salsa.

• True

• False

True or False: If a robot arm throws a part across the room, it’s expressing frustration.

• True

• False

You see 5 workers frantically taping boxes shut with one shared roll of tape. The line is backed up. What’s the constraint?

• The workers

• The boxes

• The lighting

• The tape. Always the tape.

A pallet of gumballs tips over and clogs the entire hallway. Your next step is:

• Declare a candy emergency

• Redirect flow and assign clean-up crew

• Eat your way out

Would you rather…

• Work a shift in a hot sauce bottling plant 🌶️

• Work a shift in a glitter factory ✨

Would you rather…

• Use only duct tape to fix a conveyor belt

• Use only zip ties to fix a forklift