Lean Manufacturing Flashcards
Lean Principles
- Elimination of waste
- Continuous improvement
- Respect for Humanity
- Equal production
- Just-in time production
- Quality Built-in
What are the wastes
- Over production
- waste of motion
- inventory
- defeats
- Transportation
- overprocessing
- waiting
Continuous improvement
Kaizen
Mind-set throughout employees
Respect for humanity
More respect = harder working
constant communication
listen to ideas
Equal Production
Spreading the work load between employees and machines
no waiting & no lead times
Just-in time production
receiving good only as there required in the production line
decreasing inventory
Quality built-in
Quality through-out
eg, design, shipping, packaging
What are the 3 M’s
Mura (Irregularity)
Muda (waste activities)
Muri (Overload Production
What is Muri
Overloaded production
reduce by spreading work evenly between employees
What is Muda
Waste activities
whats is muda 1 and muda 2
Muda 1 = non-value adding activity that can’t deleted
eg - final inspection
Muda 2 = non-value adding activity that aren’t necessary and can be deleted
What is Mura
the irregularity of a process