Ellsworth Business System: CI and Lean
Safer work, better quality, faster flow, lower costs and happier customers are the benefits of what?
What is Continuous Improvement?
True or False: Our daily work shoud directly support the company's goals, performance targets and team priorities.
What is true?
This is the acronym we are using to help to remembering the 8 wastes.
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!
What is Downtime
Sort, Set in Order, Shine, Standardize and Sustain are collectively referred to as this.
What are the 5 S's?
This is a disciplined step-by-step approach to identifying, analyzing and resolving problems effectively.
What is structured problem solving?
These are the individuals who own proposing improvements to processes.
Who is everyone (every role at every level)?
This tool, named after a popular lane-based sport, uses Red or Green to quickly show how measures are trending against goals.
What is a Bowling Chart?
There are 4 steps for value stream mapping. Name one.
What is:
Current State
Pain Points
Future State
Action Plan
True or False: 5s is just cleaning.
DAILY DOUBLE!!
What is False? 5s is more than cleaning, it is a structured, sustainable way to improve safety, efficiency and how workflows.
True or False: When solving problems using structured problem-solving, you should just pick one tool to use for each problem you are trying to solve.
What is False? You can leverage multiple tools when solving a problem.
For example, for plan, do check act you may use a pareto chart as part of your check process to show if there has been an improvement as part of your check.
This is a structured set of processes, tools and resources that work together to achieve a specific business goal.
What is a business system in our case specifically, the Ellsworth Business System?
Often drawn in the shape of it's name, this visually links high level goals to projects and metrics that support them.
What is X Matrix?
This is used to visualize, analyze and improve the flow of materials and information required to bring a product or service to a customer.
What is Value Stream Map?
This is the best known, documented method to perform a task safely, efficiently and with consistent quality using the current best practices.
What is Standard Work?
What is a Fishbone Diagram?
True or False: Lean is something we have to do in addition to what we do every day.
What is False? Lean is HOW we do our work, it should not be something in addition to our work but should be part of our daily routine.
This is how we execute our strategy.
What is Strategy Deployment?
This is the waste we refer to when we make more than the customer demands.
What is Overproduction?
There are three things we talked about which standard work should answer. Name one of the three.
What is
What should be done?
How should it be done?
In what sequence and conditions should it be done in each time?
Team Huddles, Visual Boards and leadership routines are examples of this.
What is Managing Daily Improvements?
True or False: Continuous improvement is the mindset, Lean is the Framework?
What is True?
This provides an annual roadmap of activities for our business.
What is Lean Transformation Plan?
Not utilizing people's full potential of knowledge, skills or talents is this common waste.
What is Non-Utilized Talent?
Ture or False: Once we establish Standard Work we are done. We should be able to follow this process from here forward without having to change anything.
What is false- standard work requires constant incremental changes to be made a they are found.
Remember- don't let best get in the way of better!
This is what we call formal, focused activities where there is no formal process, or we want to improve an existing process or design a new one.
What is a Kaizen Event?