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Lean Basics
Waste Management
The 5 S's
Defects
PDCA
100
A lean fundamental that is based on takt time, work sequence, and standard work-in-process.
What is standard work?
100

Any activity that does not add value for the customer

What is waste?

100

The term for separating and categorizing all material and information, while disregarding the unnecessary.

What is sort?

100

This occurs when a mistake is handed on to the next process or to the end customer.

What is defect?

100

The final step in the four-step management method used in business for the control and continuous improvement of processes and products.

What is adjust/act?

200

A process that creates more value with fewer resources.

What is LEAN?

200
A fundamental approach to sorting, setting, shine, standardize, sustaining, and also safety.
What is 5S + Safety?
200

The process for creating standards for how the work/workplace should look at all times.

What is standardize?

200

This is established when you create a lean environment in which errors are prevented (or immediately caught before being passed on).

What is quality at the source?

200

This stage of problem solving includes a problem statement, current conditions, and the desired condition.

What is plan?

300

Search Influence's internal process that is used to ensure that we deliver error-free work 

What is (quality assurance) QA?

300
This scheduling system maintains inventory levels by sending signals to produce and deliver a new shipment as material is consumed.
What is kanban?
300

The term that refers to the process of completing regular audits and improvements to ensure the workplace remains organized.

What is sustain?

300
An ongoing effort to improve products, services, and processes.
What is continuous improvement?
300

Search Influence's visible measure for managing the internal PDCA process

What are project/problem cards?

400

A Lean principle that encourages the use of tools that immediately alert others of defects before they are delivered further along the process.

What is visual management?

400

A practice that focuses on continuous improvement. In Japanese means improvement.

What is kaizen?

400

The method that refers to organizing, labeling, and color-coding items for easy use or access.

What is set in order?

400

Henry Ford's basic idea in which work flows steadily through a process and materials/information are delivered as needed to work stations.

What is flow/flow production?

400

Where is Search Influence's PDCA process documented for each department?

What are department whiteboards?

500
The system that lean manufacturing is based on.
What is the Toyota Production System (TPS)?
500

Any time spent on activities that transform a product or service in ways that customers value and will pay for.

What is value-added time?

500

The term used for cleaning and keeping all storage areas void of clutter and unwanted material.

What is shine?

500

A four-step management method used in business for the control and continuous improvement of processes and problems.

What is Plan-Do-Check-Adjust (PDCA)?

500

A single-page report used to tell a story about how a problem was improved by the methodical application of PDCA

What is A3?