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| The use of visual indicator systems such as flashing lights to help management assess current performance and quickly identify the location of current problems. |
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| Putting the responsibility for attacking waste with the employees directly involved in the processes. |
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| A systematic program for effective housekeeping in operational processes. |
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| Organizing operations systems by grouping together similar customers and then designing and implementing product systems to serve these specific customers. |
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| Managers and employees are obligated to see the problems and issues in person rather than relying on reports. |
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| An approach to work layout and scheduling that gathers in one location all of the equipment and work skills necessary to complete production of a family of similar products. |
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| A form of level, mixedmodel scheduling. |
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| Units waiting to be processed or delivered. |
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| A focus on developing technological features of equipment and processes that automatically detect and flag problems. |
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| An older name for lean systems. |
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| A short-term, cross-functional team project aimed at improving an existing process. |
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| A scheduling system that builds output in response to actual customer demand. |
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| The application of lean principles and tools to the task of designing products. |
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| The culture that is present in lean systems and that places a high value on respect for people in the system. |
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| A philosophy that emphasizes the minimization of the amount of all resources used in the various activities of the enterprise. |
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| level, mixed-model scheduling |
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| The practice of leveling quantities of different product models produced over a period of time, with the goals of reducing batch sizes and lead times. |
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| An emphasis on redesigning processes in such a way as to make mistakes either impossible or immediately apparent to the worker |
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| process analysis/value stream mapping |
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| A graphical technique that helps managers understand material and information flows as a product makes its way through the process. |
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| Excessive or unnecessary operations. |
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| Activities in the operating processes are initiated by actual customer demands, and not by forecasted demands. |
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| The practice of eliminating defects at their root cause origination points. |
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| The processes used to reduce setup and changeover times with the goal of making output of smaller batches more efficient. |
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| seven basic types of waste |
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| A classification of wastes into one of seven basic categories. |
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| single minute exchange of dies (SMED) |
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| A systematic three-stage procedure for reducing long setups. |
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| simplification and standardization |
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| An emphasis on eliminating non–value-adding process steps and on executing process steps in exactly the same way each time by every worker. |
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| statistical process control (SPC) |
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| The use of various statistical tools for analyzing the capabilities of a given process and for monitoring its performance, with the goal of flagging potential problems before they occur. |
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| stop-and-fix (or line-stop) systems |
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| The practice by which an operator should stop the process and immediately fix problems, rather than allowing it to continue making poor-quality output. |
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| A scheduling approach aimed at synchronizing the output rate with the rate of customer demand. |
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| total productive maintenance (TPM) |
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| The processes and systems that work to identify and prevent all possible equipment breakdown. |
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| Toyota Production System (TPS) |
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| Another term for lean systems; refers to the specific lean system implemented at Toyota. |
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| Units being unnecessarily moved. |
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| Making current performance and potential problems immediately visually apparent. |
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| waste from product defects |
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| Waste due to unnecessary scrap, rework, or correction. |
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| Unnecessary or excessive resource activity. |
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| Processing more units than are necessary. |
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| Resources wasted waiting for work. |
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