The 8 Wastes
Tools
Data
Potpourri
Apple
100

The acronym for the 8 wastes

What is downtime?

100

A framework for Lean Six Sigma process improvement

What is DMAIC?

100

A measure of variation

What is standard deviation? (Or variance, or range)

100
The methodology to reduce waste

What is Lean?

100

The year Apple was founded

What is 1976?

200

Idle time

What is waiting?

200

Also called the Ishikawa diagram, this is a tool for root-cause analysis that resembles a skeleton

What is a fishbone diagram?

200

A graph that illustrates the 80/20 rule

What is a Pareto chart?

200

The methodology to reduce defects and variation

What is Six Sigma?

200

The goal year for Apple to reach carbon neutrality

What is 2030?

300

An error or nonconformance

What is a defect?
300

A high-level process map that captures inputs and outputs

What is a SIPOC?

300

The number of defects out of a million in a 6-sigma level process

What is 3.4?
300

The Japanese word for mistake proofing

What is Poka Yoke?

300

He founded Apple along with Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak

Who is Ronald Wayne?

400

Movement of goods from one location to another

What is transportation?

400

A diagram that shows product features such as delighters and must-haves 

What is the Kano Model?

400

A measure of central tendency

What is the mean? (Or median or mode)

400

The word you can ask 5 times

What is why?

400

The tablet computer released in 1993

What is Newton MessagePad?

500

Wasted intellectual capital

What is non-utilized talent?

500

The four quadrants in a PICK chart

What are Possible, Implement, Challenge, and Kill?

500

Reviews, surveys, and focus groups can be used to collect this type of data

What is the Voice of the Customer?

500

Activities that a customer is willing to pay for; changes form, fit, or function

What are value-added activities?

500

He was the actor who narrated the "Think Different" commercial

Who is Richard Dreyfuss?