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