Basic Concepts
An activity that changes the form, fit or function of a product and which a customer is willing to pay for.
What is Value Adding activity?
This japanese word translates to continuous improvement or change for the better.
What is Kaizen?
What is bar chart, line chart or pie chart?
What are examples of basic graphs?
SMED stands for this
What is Single Minute Exchange of Dies
This company developed the system that is known as Lean Manufacturing.
What is Toyota Motors?
Lean defines value from this perspective.
What is the Customer’s perspective?
The 3 boxes on the left side of the A3 needed as prework.
What is Box 1 Background/opportunity, Box 2 Current conditions and Box 3 Goals
Weights, distance and time are examples of this type of data.
What is continuous data?
VRK Stands for this.
What is Variation Reduction Kaizen?
Daily Double
5 categories of the 8 types of waste.
The 3 most common Kaizen Traps (hint: balloon / ocean / $ )
What is (1)scope too big, (2)moving the problem to another area or person instead of solving it and (3) trying to solve the problem with additional cost or WIP.
80% of the results could be achieved with 20% of the effort. Known as the 80-20 rule.
What is Pareto?
Japanese word that translates to mistake-proof.
What is poka-yoke?
An example of high level process map
What is a flow chart, SIPOC or value stream map?
The three reasons why we do Kaizens
What are to improve business results, provide opportunities to learn, and drive cultural change?
A graph that shows common cause and/or special cause variation.
What is control charts?
We remeber 10% of what we read, 20% of what we read and 90% of what we ____.
What is TEACH?
Standard Work documents capture _______________ to perform a process.
What is the current best known way?
This person famously said “Where there is no standard, there can be no kaizen”
Who is Taiichi Ohno?
This graph displays the dataset sample median, the first and third quartiles and outliers.
What are box plots?
In control charts, these are located at approx 3 standard deviations from the mean.
What are the UCL and LCL?