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| The distribution of work units across the value stream to maintain takt and pitch |
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| What is workload balencing? |
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An agreed upon set of procedures that effectively combines people & materials
to maintain quality, efficiency, safety, and predictability |
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| The concept that allows work to flow between processes with little or no queue time |
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| Improves employee morale; Involves everyone; success is easy; foundation for lean |
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Go and See; Principle of Lean suggesting that in order to truly understand a situation,
one needs to go to where the work is done |
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| The time to produce a single work unit or provide a service based on customer demand |
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The problems & opportunities that are easy to address with relatively little effort or money
during Lean implementation. |
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| What is Low Hanging Fruit? |
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| To acknowledge your own mistake and to pledge improvement. |
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| Inconsistency or unevenness |
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| Balances work loads via visual controls; Identifies problems early; Similar to a mailbox |
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It acts as a physical reminder of what is needed, when it is needed, and how much is needed;
This visual aid is necessary before an upstream process produces work or provides a service |
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Japanese for “improvement” or “change for the better”;
Refers to philosophy or practices that focus upon continuous improvement of processes |
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The core idea is to maximize customer value while minimizing waste.
Simply, it means creating more value for customers with fewer resources. |
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Includes both value-added and non value-added activities;
Allows for "seeing" areas of waste in current state;
Future state is roadmap and apt to change;
Create icons specific to your business or Industry |
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| What is Value Stream Mapping? |
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Unused Talent; Defects; Motion; Transportation; Over-Processing;
Over-Production; Inventory; Waiting |
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| Picture of value stream map |
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| What is Value Stream or Process Mapping? |
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| Jeff in warehouse communicating. |
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| Looks like a traffic light |
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| When things get backed up |
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No-pay, Worthless, Pointless (activities that do
not add value that the customer will pay for) |
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Overburden (original Japanese word has further
connotations such as “impossible,” and others) |
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Failsafe Devices, literally
“distraction-proof”) |
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Deciding what is needed and what is not needed and
removing what is not needed from the site of the job,
The first S of 5S, original meaning in Japanese is “disposition” |
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Locating what is needed so that it will be available to
the job immediately, The second S of 5S, original
meaning in Japanese is “tidy” or “set to rights” |
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Paying attention continuously to whether things on
the work site are in their designated locations defined
by 1 and 2 S activities, the third S of 5S, original meaning in Japanese is “clean up” |
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Holding a high, “able to eat off the floor” standard for
work site cleanliness and organization, the fourth S of
5S, original meaning in Japanese is “sanitize” |
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Maintaining strict discipline in the work site so that all
rules and procedures defined by the first, second,
third and fourth S’s are followed until they are
improved, the fifth S of 5S, original meaning in Japanese is “discipline” |
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| The 6th S added after the original 5S's. It should be considered whils implementing the original 5S or any operation in our company. |
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