Waste
This word helps us remember the eight wastes.
What is DOWNTIME?
This word finishes the sentence "Flow when you can ___ when you must..."
What is pull?
This is a tool to show who can do what tasks on a team.
What is a Skills Matrix?
This is the person/people who defines our standard for how a process should perform.
Who is the customer?
This is the first time we hope to hear about procurement needs from a team.
What is in the monthly alignment meetings?
This waste is what we experience after sending an email--before we get a response.
What is Waiting?
This is the metric associated with the rate of customer demand
What is Takt Time?
This tool is the document we use to record standard work, used frequently in WWII.
What is a Job Breakdown?
This is what standard work outlines.
This is the future ability of customers to do most if not all of the procurement process on their own.
What is self procure?
This waste is what we get when quality is poor.
What is a Defect?
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?
We use this tool to load our work and eventually to level our work. It means to make smooth/level.
What is the Heijunka?
This is might come in the form of a picture that demonstrates the right way to do a task.
What is a job aid?
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?
Space creates this waste.
What is Inventory?
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?
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?
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?
What is the lookahead?
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?
You will achieve steady flow when your ______ time is equal to your ________ time.
What is Lead and Takt?
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?
These are the three elements of standard work.
What are content, sequence, and timing?
This set up is how procurement will be arranged to ensure steady flow in the future.
What is a work cell?