Lean Process Analysis
Across
- 2. Smooth, continuous movement of work through a process
- 4. The rate of customer demand expressed as time per unit
- 6. Material or work between steps waiting to be processed
- 10. Tools that make process status, flow, and issues visible at a glance
- 11. Business-Necessary but Non-Value-Added work
- 12. Producing work based on forecasts rather than demand
- 13. Non-value-added activity such as waiting, rework, overproduction, or excess motion
- 15. Visual comparison of takt time vs. cycle times at each step
- 17. The real place where work is performed and observations occur
- 18. The time it takes to complete one unit at a process step
Down
- 1. Producing only when the downstream process signals the need
- 2. Root-cause questioning technique used in analysis
- 3. A map of physical motion to identify wasted movement
- 5. A small, focused, rapid improvement event
- 7. What the customer is willing to pay for based on their needs and expectations
- 8. The documented best-known, repeatable way to perform a task
- 9. Total elapsed time from request to delivery
- 10. End-to-end visualization of steps, queues, and information flows
- 14. The slowest constraint step that limits total throughput
- 16. Distributing work evenly so each step has similar load and timing