To What Did Kent Flannery (1969)refer with the Term Broad-Spectrum

question 58

Multiple Choice

To what did Kent Flannery (1969) refer with the term broad-spectrum revolution?

• A)the period in which Asia became the only place in the world with communities leading a sedentary life and engaging in food and animal domestication
• B)the period in which the first large states began to grow,although there was nothing actually "revolutionary" about it because this process occurred very gradually
• C)the period in which a wider range of tools was being fabricated,for both utilitarian and ritualistic purposes
• D)the period beginning around 15,000 B.P.in the Middle East and 12,000 B.P.in Europe,during which a wider range of plant and animal life was hunted,gathered,collected,caught,and fished
• E)the period between 20,000 B.P.and 10,000 B.P.when anatomically modern humans colonized the entire world,made possible by a smarter utilization of a wider range of environments

Identify the application of lean practices to service industries and administrative processes.

Understand the principles and objectives of lean manufacturing.

Recognize the differences between lean and traditional manufacturing environments.

Identify the key elements of lean manufacturing such as inventory reduction, quality improvement, and setup time reduction.

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Definitions:

Activity-based Costing

A costing method that identifies activities in a company and assigns the cost of each activity to all products and services according to the actual consumption by each.

Shipping and Handling Activity

The process of preparing, packaging, and delivering goods to a destination.

Activity Rate

A metric used to measure the efficiency or productivity of a company's operations, often tied to specific actions or tasks.

Departmental Factory Overhead Rate

A rate used to allocate indirect manufacturing costs to different departments within a factory.