Key Terms and Definitions Flashcards
What is LSS?
LSS is a business strategy of creating and sustaining value for the customer by identifying value streams and eliminating waste.
3 Benefits of LSS
1) Improve Quality
2) Reduce Costs
3) Save Time (Reduce Leadtime)
LSS Key to Success
Buy in from everyone.
Who Developed Lean
- Toyota (real name Toyoda)
- Also know as Toyota Production System (TPS)
- Taiichi Ohno: Father of Lean
When Was Lean Created / Popular
- Created: Post WWII
- Popular: mid 90’s
Who Developed Six Sigma
- Motorola
- Bill Smith
- SPC applied to quality
When Was Six Sigma Created / Popular
- Created: Mid-80s
- Popular: GE; Jack Welch; Created Belt Colors
What did Vilfredo Pareto Introduce?
- Pareto Chart
- 80/20 Principle
- 20% of the effort = 80% of the results
- 20% of the causes = 80% of the effects
- Focus on the significant few vs instead of the insignificant many
What did Henry Ford Introduce?
The assembly line.
What did Walter Shewhart Introduce?
Special cause and common cause variation
- Special cause: abnormal
- Common cause: explainable
Developed Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) method of problem solving.
What did Fredrick Taylor Introduce?
There’s one best way to do it
- standardized processes
What did W. Edward Deming Introduce?
Went to Japan and introduced:
Total Quality Management
- SOPs: standard operating procedures
- SPC
- Control Charts
Considered: Father of Quality
“Quality is everyone’s responsibility.”
What did Dr. Kaora Ishikawa Introduce?
Fishbone Diagram
- Also known as Cause and Effect Diagram
Diagram Design
- Head of Fish: Ultimate Problem
- Typically 6 Bones: Manpower, Material, Machine,
Method, Measurement, Management
- Start a the End of each fishbone (current state) and
work towards the spine
- Ask WHY until no longer can to reach root cause
- Ask THEREFORE, working back towards the outer
portion of the bone
What did Shigeo Shingo Introduce?
Poka-Yoke
- mistake proofing
- preventing an error from occurring
Soft = message only Hard = will prevent from occurring
What did Taiichi Ohno Introduce?
Muda
- 7 types of waste +1
- waste = non-value added steps in process
T = Transportation I = Inventory (excessive hides problems or defect) M = Motion W = Waiting O = Over Production O = Over Processing (unnecessary processing) D = Defects \+1 = Unused Employee Creativity
What is the Toyota House of Quality?
Foundation (Stability)
- Heijunka (leveling of production)
- Standardized Work
- Kaizen
Pillars
- Left: Jidoka (stop the line; automation with a human touch)
- Right: JIT
Roof
- I = Improved Quality
- R = Reduced Costs
- S = Saves Time (reduce leadtime)
What is the Toyota Way House?
Pillars
- Left: Continuous Improvement
- Right: Respect for People
What is Value?
Customer determines value
What is value added for goods?
Something that changes the shape or form of a product that the customer is willing to pay for
What is a Value Stream for Goods?
From the time the customer places order until the time the customer received the product..
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How is Value Achieved?
Done across processes (cross functionally) instead of done by a department (functionally)
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What are the 3 levels of value streams from start to stop?
1) Process
2) Door to Door (factory / get to until leave hospital
3) Enterprise (getting sick until complete recovery)