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VOS Glossary
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What does BoK means?

What is...Body of Knowledge

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What is VOS?

Vertiv Operating System is how we do our work to meet objetives.

Vertiv Operating System is the set of knowledge, actions and beliefs that drive value for our company.

VOS is a combination of our people, our customers and continuous improvement and is our blueprint for how we deliver results.

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If our goals are the "Whats", what word represent the "Hows" to achieve our goals?

Values

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This standard was developed to provide guidelines for executing the policies and procedures associated with this element of the VOS.

VOS Maturity Assessment Standard

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Is the monitoring of standard work, signals, KPIs, Hour by Hour charts and resolving issues at the point of impact?

Daily Controls

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What is the name of person who is our Global Vice-president of VOS?

Vinny Tuccillo

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What is the first step to eliminate waste?

Is to Identify it.

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What is the rate at which you need to complete a product in order to meet customer demand?

Takt Time

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Where you can find the BoK?

What is...Intranet, VERN, VOS

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What is VOS Outcome?

What is... Meeting/Exceeding our objectives and key results

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VOS is built on our core values, What are three VOS Values?

Acting like an owner, Assisting others to be successful as a team, Talking with people and NOT abouth them, Being passionate about your work.

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What is the name of VOS element that answer the next question: How mature is the safety program within the plant?

Safety

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A method of production control in which downstream activities signal their needs to upstream activities

Pull System

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What is the tool that we should use in a daily basis to enable us to change culture and behaviors?

Leader Standard Work

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What are the activities that changes the form, fit or function of a product or service and customer is willing to pay?

Value Added

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Generally any type of event or activity aimed towards improvement of the situation. Commonly structured as a workshop of 2 to 5 days in duration.

Kaizen Event

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What is the purpose of BoK?

What is... BOK purpose is to share content so that the entire organization has access to it.

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What are the three C's inside de infographic of the VOS?

Culture, Customer and Continuous Improvement

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What is callled to the process to establish the current state of each of these areas (5 point model) and then identify improvement projects to address gaps, improve business results and drive VOS objectives?

OD Baseline

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What does score 3 mean in our VOS Maturity Assessment?

Deployment is Underway - Pilot programs have been implemented.  Working to expand to other areas.  Starting to evaluate more advanced techniques.

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Is doing the same work the same way every time?

Standardize

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What is the methodology to help align the entire organization between the companies Vision, Mission, Values, Strategic priorities, Annual Objectives and targets to achieve priorities?

X-Matrix

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What are the activities that consume time, money and other resources, but creates no value and customer is not willing to pay?

Non Value Added

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A team approach to quickly assess and improve a process to function more efficiently.

Kaizen Blitz  

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When you are searching inside BoK about a specific VOS topic, these are 3 elements that you can find to support knowledge and practice?

What is... Quickviews, Instructor Led Decks and Templates

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What element is in the middle (heart) of our VOS pyramid?

Continuous Improvement

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Assessing the Organization, Cultures is influenced by 5 Elements, what are 3 of these elements?

Strategy, Systems & Processes, Structure, People Capability and Metrics/Reward.

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Who is the person responsible for conducting self-assessment and owns assessment results and communication of the results for each location. Coordinate local activities and host the team of assessors

VOS Local Manager

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Follows the DMAIC methodology (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control)

Problem Solving

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What are the 4 elements of Lean Management System?

Leadership Standardized Work

Tier Boards and Visual Controls

Daily Control Process

Discipline, Consistency & Persistence

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An easy way to remember the 8 forms of waste is the acronym

DOWNTIME

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Fundamental, transformative, revolutionary improvement of a value stream. Also called breakthrough kaizen.

Kaikaku

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The Vertiv Operting System is powered by:

Organizational Development

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What are 4 out of the 6 Continuous Improvement principles?

Six Principles (Standard Work, Quality at the Source, Demand Management & Flow, Daily Controls, Problem Solving and Eliminate Waste

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"Assisting others to be successful as a team" is a Vertiv Value, What is the Vertiv Behavior most releated to this Value?

Foster Collaborative Relationship

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What is the frecuency of conducting a Maturity Assessment if the location/plant  is between 1 to 3 level?

Every 6 months

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Is the work moving from one step to the next without interruption?

Flow

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What are the 4 critical capabilities of Operating Excellence?

Process Design 

Problem Solving

Share Knowledge Systematically

Leaders are Teachers of others

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What is the objective to optimize the value added work and reduce waste?

Reduce cost and increase speed

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Refers to the practice of stopping the production line when something goes amiss.

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