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A Lean tool that reduces waste by rearranging a production process to reduce time, labor, and other resources.
What is lean layout?
The common ways companies lose time or money in a process. These are: Defects, Overproduction, Waiting, Non-utilized talent, Transportation, Inventory, Motion, and Extra processing.
What are the 8 types of waste?
A Lean tool that means 'continuous improvement' in Japanese. It encourages all employees to find ways to improve their work every day.
What is Kaizen?
The idea of always looking for ways to do things better, even in small steps, every day. Making incremental, regular improvements and upgrades to a process or product in the search for excellence.
What is continuous improvement?
The time required to set up production equipment.
What is setup time?
A workplace organization method using five Japanese words
What is 5S (Sort, Set in order, Shine, Standardize, and Sustain)
A visual tool (like a board with cards) that shows the progress of work. It helps teams manage tasks and avoid overload.
What is kanban?
A good’s or service’s nonfulfillment of an intended requirement or reasonable expectation for use, including safety considerations.
What is a defect?
How much work is done in a certain amount of time.
Activities or actions that add value to the product or service. The actual utility increase, from the customer’s viewpoint, as an item is transformed from raw material to a finished product. It is the contribution made by an operation or a plant to the final usefulness and value of a product, as seen by the customer.
What is Value-added?
A Lean Manufacturing tool used for mapping out a process to identify and eliminate all non-value-added waste within a process.
What is value stream mapping?
An activity or action that does not add value to the product or service, making the activity or action a form of waste
What is non-value-added?
The work required to change a specific machine, resource, work center, or line from making the last good piece of item A to making the first good piece of item B.
What is setup?
A set way of doing a job that is the best known method. Everyone follows it to make work safer, faster, and more consistent.
What is standard work?
The pace at which products must be made to meet customer demand. It helps match work speed with what the customer needs.
What is takt time?
Any activity that adds cost to the product but does not add value to the product in the eyes of the consumer.
What is waste?
A way of making or delivering only what is needed, when it is needed, and in the amount needed, so there’s less waste.
What is Just- In- Time?
The rate at which the system generates “goal units
What is throughput?
A Japanese word meaning 'the real place.' In Lean, it means going to where the work actually happens to understand problems and find improvements.
What is Gemba?
Grouping machines and workstations in a way that supports smooth and fast flow of products, often used to reduce movement and waiting time.
What is cellular manufacturing?
A way of running a factory or business that focuses on removing waste and improving processes to make better products faster and at a lower cost.
What is lean manufacturing?
A visual signal (like a light or screen) used on a factory floor to show the status of production or alert team members to a problem
What is andon?
A Japanese term that refers to mistake-proofing techniques.
What is Poka - Yoke?
The time it takes to complete one unit of work from start to finish.
What is cycle time?
A point in a process where the work slows down because it can’t handle as much as the steps before or after it.
What is a bottleneck?