Total elapsed time from the start of a process to the end. The time between the customer placing and receiving an order
What is Lead Time
100
Production method consisting of highly skilled workers, simple but flexible tools to make custom products one by one. High quality, expensive producs.
What is Craft production
100
Daily operating time divided by required quantity per day.
What is Takt time?
100
A customer-driven system that produces and moves products/services only when the customer needs it.
What is Pull Production System
100
What is the First step in 5s?
What is sort
200
Products proceed, one at a time through various operations without interruptions, back flow, or scrap.
What is Single Piece Flow
200
The key to the mass production assembly line.
What are interchangeable parts?
200
Sets pace of production to match pace of consumption.
What is Takt Time
200
Unmistakable visual cues which make standards and activities obvious and maintain order.
What are visual controls?
200
A system to establish measurable standards and maintain the desired conditions.
What is standardization?
300
Producing what is needed, when it is needed, in just the amount needed.
What is JIT (Just-In-Time)
300
A production method consisting of teams of multi-skilled workers and highly flexible and automated machines to produce high volume with variety of products.
What is Lean production?
300
Used to observe and identify problems, determine root cause of the problems, and develop solutions that resolve the problems and eliminate waste.
What is A3?
300
Prevents an error from being created or potentially passed to the next step of a process.
What is error proofing?
300
The step that involves cleaning. and making sure equipment works.
What is Shine?
400
nobody upstream should produce a good or service until the customer downstream asks for it
What is Pull
400
The work of Frank and Lilian Gilbreth, featured in the book & film Cheaper by the Dozen, and incorporated into mass production and Lean production.
What are time and motion studies?
400
Helps identify the largest opportunities for reduction of waste and cycle time.
What is Value Stream Mapping
400
An action that adds value directly to the product or service. Changes the fit, form, or function.
What is value added activity?
400
Temporary storage for unneeded items.
What is Red Tag Area?
500
The time accumulated processing a part that does not change the form, fit or function of the part like set-up, queues/waits, operator travel, and buying, etc.
What is NVA (Non-Value Added Time)
500
Eli Whitney opened a firearms factory in 1798 that was the first to manufacture guns using...
What is interchangeable parts
500
An agreed-upon set of work procedures that establishes the best and most reliable methods and sequences for each process and each worker.
What is Standard Work?
500
Efforst that add no value to the product or services from the customer's viewpoint.
What is Waste?
500
Documentation about what should be kept, the format to keep it in, how often it is accessed, confidentiality, and how long they should be kept.