Meeting Needs
Playing by the rules
Who's value is it?
DOWNTIME
Think Optimized
100
How frequently something must happen to meet customer demands
What is Takt Time?
100
A shorthand way of saying that there is no rank among team members
What is No HiPPOs!
100
Process steps or activities that change a raw material or information into a product or process for which the customer is willing to pay
What is value add?
100
This waste ties up our cash in materials that are not making us money.
What is inventory?
100
We use this word to describe what the things we do that the customer cares about.
What is value?
Will also accept value-add
200
The amount of time it takes to complete one full cycle of the process (i.e. a transaction)
What is Cycle Time?
200
This is what we say instead of "Can't..."
What is "Can, if..."
200
Nonessential steps or activities that increase process time and add cost rather than value
What is non-value add?
200
This waste occurs when people or machines are moving and are not creating value
What is motion?
200
Instead of thinking in silos we think about products and services across the entire...
What is a value stream?
300
Cycle Time / Takt Time = ?
What is the number of hosts required to meet demand?
Will also accept people
300
We don't let this get in the way of "better"
What is perfect?
300
Seasonal spikes, weekly spikes, daily spikes, weather, and events which drive sings in demand create this condition. In Japanese it is called Mura.
What is Uneveness?
300
This waste occurs demand or workload is greater than capacity
What is waiting?
300
It's a japanese word that means "change" "good"
What is kaizen?
400
There are 8 of these that interrupt value added work and make processes take longer
What are "wastes"?
Will also accept non-value added activities
400
We always reach for this before our wallet
What is the mind?
400
This is what we do with non-value add activities that are not necessary
What is eliminate immediately?
400
This waste results in scrap, rework, or customer dissatisfaction.
What is defects?
400
Uninhibited movement through the value stream with no interruptions to value added activity
What is flow?
500
If I can eat 15 pies in 10 minutes what is the takt time you must meet?
What is 40 seconds?
500
In Japanese it's the "real place" and it's where kaizen actually happens
What is Gemba?
500
This non-value add condition can come from too many emails, unnecessary meetings, extra projects, or unsafe conditions. This is referred to as Muri in Japanese.
What is overburden?
Will accept burden
500
This is the most common waste and is often called the "Mother of All Wastes!"
What is over production?
500
A team-based process to implement the tools and philosophies of Continuous Improvement.
What is a kaizen event?
Okay, okay will also accept a kaizen!