Operational Excellence Principles
Additional Treatment, Movement, Inventory, Transport, Defects, Overproduction, Wait, and Untapped Talent
What are the 8 wastes of Operational Excellence?
This color typically depicts risks, emergencies, or bans.
What is Red?
Generally the safest and most effective way to perform a task or run a process to the desired result; must be simple and clear to use.
What is a standard?
the act of going out in the field, observing and having open discussions with the team to detect waste, risks, and improvements.
What is a Gemba walk?
These words make up the acronym PDCA in the problem solving cycle.
What is plan, do, check, act?
Ten of these are better than one from a brilliant person.
What is an Idea?
This acronym refers to a measurable and quantifiable metric used to track progress towards a specific goal or objective.
What is a KPI?
It's usually best to consult these people when creating a standard.
Who are competent persons? (experts, operators)
This Japanese term, meaning "the real place," refers to the practice of going to the actual location where work is done to observe, understand, and improve processes.
What is GEMBA?
Also known as an Ishikawa diagram, this tool helps the user identify the possible causes of an event.
What is a Fishbone diagram?
This is better than having 100% someday.
What is 60%?
In human perception, this sense accounts for approximately 83% of all sensory input.
What is Visual/ Sight?
This is used when significant variability exists, or different practices are being adhered to.
What is a standard? (Standard Implementation)
During a GEMBA walk, this interaction is used to get useful feedback from employees.
What is an interview?
This tool doesn't need what, where, when, or who when finding the root cause.
What is a 5 why?
Operational Team, Managers and Project Leaders, Plant Steerco, and Roquette Global Strategy are all tiers in this structure.
What is the Global Operational Excellence Pyramid.
This Lean concept emphasizes the use of visual aids such as charts, graphs, and displays to communicate information quickly and effectively throughout an organization.
What is Visual Management?
Standards makes it possible to measure progress and implement this practice of making systems better.
What is continuous improvement?
These categories are used in RCL GEMBA to categorize the findings during the walk.
What is HSE, Quality, and Waste
When defining a problem thoroughly, it is often useful to implement this approach/ tool to ensure no details are being overlooked.
What is 5W2H?
When assessing a situation, we all have our own, which shapes our opinion on what we are observing.
What is Perspective?
Objectives which cascade to different management levels which were determined by using the impactable levers. These are described as being Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Time based.
What is S.M.A.R.T.?
DOO DOO DOO !!!! YOUR DAILY DOUBLE!!
(This one was not covered in the coursework)
Our railways, roads, and even some space-shuttle parts are engineered and designed on a standard width (4' 8.5") based on the measurement of which part of which animal?
What is a Horses A$$?
(chariots, based on horses rear width, have defined the width of our roads, railways, and what we transport on them since the time of the ancient Romans!)
This document is usually given to a GEMBA group before they head into an area for a GEMBA walk.
What is the last GEMBA report?
In brainstorming, it is always important never to do this, or you risk people not putting forward all their ideas.
What is criticize?