Waste
Steady Flow
Tools
Standard Work
Future State
100

This word helps us remember the eight wastes.

What is DOWNTIME?

100

This word finishes the sentence "Flow when you can ___ when you must..."

What is pull?

100

This is a tool to show who can do what tasks on a team.

What is a Skills Matrix?

100

This is the person/people who defines our standard for how a process should perform.

Who is the customer?

100

This is the first time we hope to hear about procurement needs from a team.

What is in the monthly alignment meetings?

200

This waste is what we experience after sending an email--before we get a response.

What is Waiting?

200

This is the metric associated with the rate of customer demand

What is Takt Time?

200

This tool is the document we use to record standard work, used frequently in WWII.

What is a Job Breakdown?

200

This is what standard work outlines.

What is the best way to do a task?
200

This is the future ability of customers to do most if not all of the procurement process on their own.

What is self procure?

300

This waste is what we get when quality is poor.

What is a Defect?

300

Ira used a bakery to demonstrate how we might have different ways of meeting demand depending on skill levels and different types of orders. This is the concept he was demonstrating.

What is leveling?

300

We use this tool to load our work and eventually to level our work.  It means to make smooth/level.

What is the Heijunka?

300

This is might come in the form of a picture that demonstrates the right way to do a task.

What is a job aid?

300

We may be doing more of the steps of the process in future state for these folks who don't and won't procure often.

What is infrequent fliers?

400

Space creates this waste.

What is Inventory?

400

In the airplane game, we measured the time it took the colored airplane to go through the entire exercise. This measurement is called the _________ time.

What is Cycle?

400

This is a diagram of the steps of a particular unit of work and the order in which they are performed.

What is a process map?

400

This is the phrase that articulates the work that management roles should be performing and how they should do it.

What is Leader Standard Work?

400
This is the document that we will be using to predict future procurements (timing and scope).

What is the lookahead?

500

The waste of making too much of something and the waste of having too many steps--often mistaken for each other.

What is overproduction and extra processing?

500

You will achieve steady flow when your ______ time is equal to your ________ time.

What is Lead and Takt?

500

This tool looks at common steps multiple processes may have in common and the order in which they are performed as well as volume of each type.

What is a WURA?

500

These are the three elements of standard work.

What are content, sequence, and timing?

500

This set up is how procurement will be arranged to ensure steady flow in the future.

What is a work cell?

M
e
n
u