Glossary
This glossary lists some of the words you might encounter in teams that are continuously improving by applying Lean tools.
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- 5xWhy
- A3 (sometimes A4 double-sided) PDCA – Kaizen Standard
- Bottleneck analysis
- ANDON
- Batch & Queue
- CELL (Cellular Production Flow)
- LAMDA Cycle
- FIFO Lane
- DFMA – Design for Manufacture and Assembly
- Ishikawa Diagram (Fishbone Analysis)
- Spaghetti diagram
- Design To Cost
- Flow
- Continuous Flow (One-Piece Flow)
- Unit flow
- FMEA - Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (Applied to the process)
- GD&T – Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing
- Gemba (the real place)
- Go and See
- Reflection
- Heijunka (Production Leveling)
- Islands (Island Production Flow)
- Jidoka (Autonomation)
- Just-in-Time (JIT)
- Kaizen
- Kamishibai
- Kanban (Pull System)
- KPI (Key Performance Indicator)
- Lead Time
- Lean Human Resources
- Line (Production Flow Line)
- Change
- Non-Value-Added but Necessary – NVA-N
- SMART Goals
- Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)
- Pareto
- Multiproject Planning
- PDCA – Plan, Do, Check, Act (also PDSA – Plan, Do, Study, Act)
- Mistake-proofing
- Quality Function Deployment
- Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
- Scrum
- Six Major Losses
- SMED – Single Minute Exchange of Die (Quick Changeover)
- Stop & Fix
- Supermarket Pull
- Takt Time
- Cycle time
- Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
- Total Quality Control (TQC)
- Value
- Value Stream Mapping
- Value-Added (VA)
- Variety Reduction Program®
- VOC – Voice of the Customer
- Work in Process (WIP) or Standardized Work in Process (SWIP)
- Yamazumi
- Yokoten
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