Lean Unit 1 Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. the labor, equipment, or tools required to perform a certain activity
  2. 4. the progression of work within a trade or from one trade to another
  3. 6. once an activity is underway any failure that stops a crew from completing it by the scheduled time
  4. 7. created by inducing under loading in a construction crew
  5. 9. the amount of unfinished work in a given construction operation at a given time
  6. 10. the actual amount of output from the production process in a given amount of time
  7. 11. the work in construction sequence that needs to be completed satisfactorily for the next activity to kick off
  8. 13. construction management involves the transformation of inputs into outputs, a flow of material and information through a production system and management of the value most important to the customers
  9. 15. every production process exhibits some measure of variation in its results - this is the average of those results
  10. 18. the maximum amount of work a production unit can perform with the provided tools and methods in a given situation
  11. 19. failures that do not permit an activity to start by the scheduled time caused by lack of directions, prerequisite work or resources
  12. 21. deviations from the baseline production process caused due to variation sources
  13. 22. the time it takes to complete one finished unit of a process
  14. 23. an individual or group of individuals performing a common production task
Down
  1. 1. buffers created by maintaining a stock of critical materials
  2. 3. producing/supplying only what is needed when it is needed in the quantity it is needed
  3. 5. providing more work to the production unit that it is capable of handling
  4. 8. this type of buffer is created in terms of work not on the critical path to combat variation upstream - workable backlog
  5. 9. assignment that have met all the criteria needed to start but held by the crew as fall back or fill-in activities in case of lack of work from upstream
  6. 12. mechanisms to mitigate the effects of variation in production systems
  7. 14. refers to the natural differences in traits, qualities and attributes
  8. 16. deviations from predetermined standards in the process and results
  9. 17. this type of variation is external
  10. 20. the information or instructions required for the construction crew to start an activity