Standard work is a detailed definition of the current agreed-upon steps needed for a person to complete one work cycle in the absolute best and most reliable method possible.
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Change management is a method or an approach that is generally systematic in the way it works. Different change management approaches can be used when dealing with the transformation or transition of a business or organizations objectives, goals, processes, culture and of course technology. It even works with behavior. One of the main purpose of change management is simply to guide or manage the change that a company, department or individual will experience during transitions.
Brainstorming is one of the most powerful techniques a team or individual can use to address topics and solve issues. Brainstorming promotes innovative thinking and helps people creatively use their skills and talents on a particular subject.
Upstream is a term used to refer to any given process step that occurs before the current step. Looking upstream often can be a valuable technique used to find the actual causes of an initial effect. You will hear this term used in reference to value streams or process maps.
The above video is from Lean Strategies International LLC's Lean Six Sigma White Belt Course. A Customer is any party that receives or requests goods or services. Customers are oftenties considered to be one of the most important participants in a supply chain. They drive value. They create demand and they express wants and needs that can be transformed.
The 3P's represent people, process and product. The 3P's are the focus of the continuous improvement strategy TQM or Total Quality Management.
DMADV is the methodology used when designing new processes that did not exist prior to their design.
Master Scheduling is the process that a master scheduler uses to create the master schedule. This includes but is not limited to how the generation, review, management and adjustments of a master schedule are done.
Have you ever wanted something to snack on really bad, so you jump up head to the store and when you get there they are fresh out of inventory? Have you ever made the decision to purchase a new vehicle and you go to the dealer and the vehicle you want isn’t there so you go home and order it online? Inventory stock out costs. These are both examples of inventory stock out costs. Stockouts occur when the inventory you have on hand is not enough to fulfill the customers demand needs. Likewise a stock out might be when there is inventory, but the inventory is not what you wanted.
A Non-Value added activity is any activity that adds no value to the product, service or information. Non-value added activities typically have three characteristics that are fairly simple to identify.
Value is a perception of the worth, regard, importance or usefulness of a good or service. In other words, it is the worth of a product or a service when it is delivered to your customers.
The Value Stream is the entire set of activities that are required to design, produce and provide services or goods. In other words, it is all of the activities in your organization that are needed to design, manufacture and deliver products or services to your customers.
Downtime is the period of time during which a piece of equipment or a machine is not functional or can not work.
RCCP verifies that you have sufficient capacity available to meet the capacity requirements for your master schedules.
The control plan is a tool used in the control phase of the DMAIC method. The tool is used for documenting the functional elements of quality control that are to be implemented in order to ensure that quality standards are met for a particular product, process, project or service.
The mean absolute deviation or MAD as it is often abbreviated, of a dataset is the average or "mean" distance between each data point from the data set and the mean/average. This will give you an idea of the amount of variability in a dataset. MAD can be calculated from both observations and the arithmetic average (mean) of those observations. Another option when calculating MAD is to calculate based on actual data minus forecasted data. If forecasting or being used for future analysis you can apply different weights to your forecast or use exponential smoothing in an attempt to make your forecast more accurate. In most cases however mean absolute deviation uses actual data.
The house of Toyota is a graphical representation of the Toyota Production System depicted in the form of a house. Taiichi Ohno was given credit for much of the systems development. The Toyota Production System works together with 5 key elements:
A push system is the production or performance of any item or activity performed at required times by a given schedule that has been planned in advance. Many push systems are built mainly to forecast. Push systems can also include issuing material or performing an activity based on a schedule rather than need. Push systems create excess inventory which is one of the 8 forms of waste.
The 5 core principles of a Lean Organization were first written about in a book entitled: Lean Thinking by James P. Womack and Daniel T. Jones. The 5 core principles are widely accepted as a means implementing and establishing a lean organization. The 5 core principles have been adapted from the 5 original principles that were defined by Dr. Womack and Daniel T. Jones:
A changeover is the work required to change a specific machine, resource, work center or line from making the last good piece of an item to making the first good piece of another item. That means that if the first good piece after the changeover is not good the changeover is not complete.
Takt time is a German phrase for the baton the conductor uses to set the tempo of an orchestra. In Lean and Six Sigma applications Takt time refers to the rate at which products, information and/or services need to be completed in, to keep up with customer demand. Much like the pulse of a heart rate, Takt time tells us whether we are beating at a healthy rate or we are falling behind.
A forecast is a prediction of something to come or in the future. A forecast would take place before any type of action or activity happens. Forecasts are almost always wrong but they can be used to define a hope-for, goal, target or condition that you believe is attainable based on analysis and assessment.
A bottleneck is the term used for any function, department, resource or facility whose needed capacity is less than the demand being placed upon it.
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