Across
- 2. / Material produced by one process is used up in the same order by the next process
- 6. / A product or service's capability provided to a customer at the right time, at an appropriate price, as defined in each case by the customer
- 8. / A mistake proofing device or procedure to prevent a defect during order-taking or manufacture
- 9. / Creating more value for customers with fewer resources.
- 10. / The rate of customer demand. How often the customer requires one finished item.
- 12. / Producing more, sooner or faster than is required by the next process
- 13. / The act of leveling the variety and/or volume of items produced at a process over a period of time.
- 14. / A controlled inventory of items that is used to schedule production at an upstream process
- 17. / When each and every associate can see the flow of value to the customer, and fix that flow before it breaks down
- 22. / Any activity that consumes resources but creates no value for the customer
- 25. / Time during which a machine is in operation
- 26. / Continuously improving in incremental steps
- 29. / Japanese term meaning "the real place
- 30. / The time a product spends waiting in line for the next processing step
- 31. / Radical improvement of an activity to eliminate waste, also called breakthrough kaizen, flow kaizen, and system kaizen.
Down
- 1. / The detailed choreographed patterns of movements practised either solo or in pairs.
- 3. / Terms beginning with 'S' utilized to create a workplace suited for visual control and lean production.
- 4. / When a piece of equipment has to stop producing in order to be fitted for producing a different item.
- 5. / Means that items are produced and moved from one processing step to the next one piece-at-a-time.
- 7. / Single minute exchange of dies
- 11. / How frequently an item or product actually is completed by a process, as timed by direct observation.
- 15. / A precise description of each work activity specifying cycle time, takt time, the work sequence of specific tasks, and the minimum inventory of parts on hand needed to conduct the activity
- 16. / Ford recognized that, ideally, production should flow continuously all the way from raw material to the customer and envisioned realizing that ideal through a production system that acted as one long conveyor
- 18. / The complete elimination of muda so that all activities along a value stream create value.
- 19. / A visual control device in a production area, giving the current status of the production system and alerting team members to emerging problems
- 20. / A method of conducting single-piece flow in which the operators proceeds from machine to machine, Literally means "load-load" in Japanese
- 21. / Any inventory between raw material and finished goods
- 23. / Transferring human intelligence to automated machinery so machines are able to detect the production of a single defective part and immediately stop themselves while asking for help
- 24. / The time required for one piece to move all the way through a process or value stream, from start to finish..
- 27. / Operating a true continuous flow on machines and workstations placed close together in the order of processing, sometimes in a "U" shape
- 28. / Producing or conveying only the items that are needed by the next process when they are needed and in the quantity needed
- 31. / A signaling device that gives instruction for production or conveyance of items in a pull system