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Customer Pull $100

The frequency of demand from the customer. The total available production time divided by customer demand

Customer Pull $100

What is Takt Time?

The frequency of demand from the customer. The total available production time divided by customer demand

Customer Pull $200

Signaling device that gives authorization & instructions for production or for the withdrawal of materials. The term is Japanese for sign or signboard.

Customer Pull $200

What is Kanban?

Signaling device that gives authorization & instructions for production or for the withdrawal of materials. The term is Japanese for sign or signboard.

Customer Pull $300

Production processes that allow us to make one piece at a time. All parts move without stopping through the production process.

Customer Pull $300

What is Single Piece Flow?

Production processes that allow us to make one piece at a time. All parts move without stopping through the production process.

Customer Pull $400

Production scheduling & execution method where product is manufactured only when there is immediate customer demand. Downstream activities signal their needs to upstream activities to fulfill the customer orders just in time.

Customer Pull $400

What is Pull Production or a Pull System?

Customer Pull $500

Customer Pull $500

What Heijunka or Level Scheduling?

Cells & Value Streams $100

Production technique where machines & processes are brought together so that items can be manufactured or assembled in continuous, single-piece flow.

Cells & Value Streams $100

What is a Production Cell?

Production technique where machines & processes are brought together so that items can be manufactured or assembled in continuous, singlepiece flow.

Cells & Value Streams $200

Lean methods used to bring machine set-up or change-over to 10 minutes or less.

Cells & Value Streams $200

What is SMED?
Single Minute Exchange of Dies

Lean methods used to bring machine set-up or change-over to 10 minutes or less.

Cells & Value Streams $300

A stocking area within the value stream where small quantities of materials, components, products, or subassemblies are used to buffer problems related to material flow. The items are controlled visually and moved into the downstream process using pull (kanban) methods.

Cells & Value Streams $300

What is a Supermarket?

A stocking area within the value stream where small quantities of materials, components, products, or sub-assemblies are used to buffer problems related to material flow. The items are controlled by visually

Cells & Value Streams $400

All the processes required both value-adding and wasteful that are used to create value for the customer. All the activities required to bring a product from raw materials into the arms of the customer, or to bring a new product from conception to launch.

Cells & Value Stream $400

What is a Value Stream?

All the processes required both value-adding and wasteful that are used to create value for the customer. All the activities required to bring a product from raw materials into the arms of the customer, or to bring a new product from conception to launch.

Cells & Value Streams $500

Anything that inhibits flow through the value stream.

Cells & Value Streams $500

What is Waste?

Anything that inhibits flow through the value stream.

Visual Systems $100

Keeping your work area clean, tidy, uncluttered, containing only what is needed, and a clearly defined place for everything.

Visual Systems $100

What is Five S?
(Sort, Set in order, Shine, Standardize, Sustain)

Keeping your work area clean, tidy, uncluttered, containing only what is needed, and a clearly defined place for everything.

Visual Systems $200

Visual Systems $200

What is a Standardized Work Chart?

Visual Systems $300

Visually marked area in front of a process used to maintain production sequence by ensuring that the first part to enter the process is also the first part to exit.

Visual Systems $300

What is a FIFO Lane?

Visually marked area in front of a process used to maintain production sequence by ensuring that the first part to enter the process is also the first part to exit.

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Visual Systems $400

What is a production board or visual measurement? Slide 1

Visual Systems $500

A visual control method to control WIP between processes.

Visual Systems $500

What is an In-Process Kanban (IPK)?

A visual control method to control WIP between processes.

Lean Principles $100

Value defined from the view-point of the customer.

Lean Principles $100

What is the First Principle of Lean Thinking?

Value is always defined from the view-point of the customer.

Lean Principles $200

Management and improvement of value streams, cells, and other processes within lean organizations is primarily done by these?

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What are Empowered Teams?

Management and improvement of value streams, cells, and other processes within lean organizations is primarily done by these?

Lean Principles $300

Culture within the organization that stresses non-stop continuous improvement throughout every aspect of the companys business and processes.

Lean Principles $300

What is The Pursuit of Perfection?

Culture within the organization that stresses non-stop continuous improvement throughout every aspect of the companys business and processes.

Lean Principles $400

The person who has overall responsibility within the value stream for growing the business, increasing value to the customer, eliminating waste, and making tons of money.

Lean Principles $400

What is a Value Stream Manager?

The person who has overall responsibility within the value stream for growing the business, increasing value to the customer, eliminating waste, and making tons of money.

Lean Principles $500

Material, information, and cash must what at the pull of the customer?

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What is Flow?

Material, information, and cash must what at the pull of the customer?

Continuous Improvement $100

The process and culture of continuous improvement effort.

Continuous Improvement $100

What is Kaizen?

Any continuous improvement effort.

Continuous Improvement $200

Visual method used to stop production (or other processes) when the quality of the product is poor or the process is too variable.

Continuous Improvement $200

What is Andon, Or Andon Light?

Visual method used to stop production (or other processes) when the quality of the product is poor or the process is too variable.

Continuous Improvement $300

Diagram showing the flow of materials and information through the value stream; as it will look after your current round of improvement projects and kaizen events.

Continuous Improvement $300

What is the Future State Value Stream Map?

Diagram showing the flow of materials and information through the value stream; as it will look after your current round of improvement projects and kaizen events.

Continuous Improvement $400

Changes to fixtures and procedures designed to prevent errors or quality problems. Making it impossible to do the process wrong.

Continuous Improvement $400

What is the Poka Yoke or Mistake-Proofing?

Changes to fixtures and procedures designed to prevent errors or quality problems. Making it impossible to do the process wrong.

Continuous Improvement $500

These are the principle drivers of week by week improvement through out the value stream.

Continuous Improvement $500

What is the Value Stream Performance Measurements and the Value Stream Income Statement?

These are the principle drivers of week by week improvement through out the value stream.