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Menlo Lean 101-103 Flashcards

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1
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Why change?

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So that improvements will be a result of internal factors before it becomes a result of external factors

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Name the five internal factors:

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Strained Finances, Performance, Changes in leadership, Technology and Growth

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Name the five external factors:

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Economic Forces and Competition, Technology, Regulatory/Political, legal changes and Social

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Name the three competitive risks for the future:

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Market Conditions
Competitors
Increased Customer expectations

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5
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Give six ways how lean will benefit me:

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Over-burdened workloads
stop firefighting
Effective meetings and teamwork
Clearer objectives
improved quality
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What are the 7 processes for change:

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Acknowledge the crisis
Create a vision
Create a partnership
Create Commitment
Leadership involvement
Create s sense of urgency
Drive Results
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7
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Name 5 Lean Strategic Lean House initiatives:

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Sustain and advance lean globally
Improve Cash Flow
Develop Advanced Lean Leaders
Reduce planned administrative Cost
Improve Globalized STSU process
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8
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Name the 5 components of the Lean Vision:

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Customer
Culture
Leadership
Associates
Process
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9
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Name the 5 levels of Lean maturity:

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Awareness
Basic
Stabilization
Growth
Maturity
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10
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Name 4 reasons why we use Lean:

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System is proven
It is for our success
It drives from the customers perspective
It promotes our long term vision

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11
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What is JIT?

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Just In Time manufacutring

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What is Jidoka?

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Intelligent Automation with built in quality

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Name the 4 steps of Jidoka:

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Detect the error
STOP
Fix or correct the condition and
find the root cause and countermeasure

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14
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What year did Toyoda automate?

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1926

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15
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What year did Toyota motor company form?

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1930

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16
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When did Toyoda study Lean from Demming?

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1950

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17
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What year was the NUMMI Formed?

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1984

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18
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What does NUMMI stand for?

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New United Motor Manufacturers Inc.

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19
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When did Toyota import its first car into the US?

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1965

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When was Lean production introduced to the world through “The Machine That Changed the World”?

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1993

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Who wrote the book “The Machine That Changed The World?

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Massachus Institute of Technology MIT

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When did Toyota become the most profitable Carmarker in the world?

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2006

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23
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What is Lean?

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Business philosophy of continuous improvement by deploying cross functional teams and small groups to discover, analyze and eliminate sources of waste by using standard Lean principles

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24
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What is VOC?

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Voice of Customer

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25
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True or False Customer could be internal or external

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True

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26
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What is Genchi Genbutsu?

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Go Look, Go See

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27
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Name 6 characteristics of Continuous Improvement?

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Improve the way we add value for the customer
waste discovery and elimination
Everyone takes ownership
using the tools, skills and authority to improve
Teams
Understanding it’s a journey

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28
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What is the continuous improvement philosophy?

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There is always something that can be improved

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29
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What is the continuous improvement approach?

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Proactive vs reactive

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30
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What is the continuous improvement idea?

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start by managing and improving your own job

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31
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What does MUDA mean?

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Waste

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32
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What does MURA mean?

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Unevenness

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33
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What does MURI mean?

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Overburdening

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34
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Name the 3 MU’s of waste:

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MUDA, MURA, and MURI

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35
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Name 7 + 2 primary waste:

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Inventory
Overproducing
Overprocessing
Over engineering
Motion
Transport/Transfer
Defect
Unused employee creativity
Waiting
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36
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Define Gemba:

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It is the place where truth can be found

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37
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What method should be used? on a Go Look, Go See

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5 Why Root Cause

38
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What is the foundation of Lean?

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Stability

39
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What are the 4 M’s of Lean Stability?

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Manpower
Method
Machine
Material

40
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What is Value Stream?

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all the activities a company must do to design, order, produce, deliver and service the customer

41
Q

What is process?

A

a specific sequence

42
Q

Name 4 mapping formats:

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Process
Value Stream Map
Swim Lane Process Map
Spaghetti Diagram

43
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Name 6 Value Stream Goals:

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Reduce Lead-times
Reduce Inventory and overall cost
Improve Quality
Identify Waste
continuous improvement
44
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Name the 2 type of Kaizen:

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Flow

Process

45
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What is process Kaizen?

A

Elimination of waste

46
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What is Flow Kaizen?

A

Value Stream Improvement

47
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What is VA?

A

Value Added or process time

48
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What is NVA?

A

Non Value Added or wait time

49
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What is NNVA?

A

Necessary Non Value Added

50
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Define transport/transfer waste:

A

the unnecessary transportation of parts and/or information

51
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Define waiting waste:

A

idle or not engaged in value added activity

52
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Define inventory waste:

A

holding of excess product/information, materials or supplies

53
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Define defect waste:

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to work over again, to revise, to repeat a process in order to correct a error

54
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Define overprocessing waste:

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working beyond what is needed to satisfy the customer. unnecessary steps in processing
ex. customer requires one label, but process puts two labels

55
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Define Motion waste:

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movement of people or equipment that does not add value to the process

56
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Define overproduction waste:

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producing more than what is required to meet actual demand of the customer. Making a few extra just incase.

57
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What is volume data?

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Historical data over extended periods of time

58
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What is performance data?

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Actual operating performance information not projected or goal

59
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What is customer data?

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information that defines customer requirements

60
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What is system data?

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Information that clearly captures systems abilities and constraints

61
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What is a S.M.A.R.T. target?

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Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant and Trackable

62
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What is strategic tracking?

A

alignment of goals and objective across the organization

63
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Fact based decisions require what:

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Facts

64
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Name 3 elements of catchball communications:

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Open to key ideas from the customer
All stakeholders are involved
Sound structure for continuous improvement

65
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What is the visual management triangle

A

We see together
We know together
We Act together

66
Q

Give 4 things that visual management must be:

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Big enough to see
easy to understand
Important
drive improvement

67
Q

What does SQCDM mean?

A

Safety, Quality, Communications, Delivery, and Morale

68
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What is 5S?

A

Discipline and control over daily activities

69
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Name the 5S in order:

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Sort
Set In Order
Shine
Standardize
Sustain
70
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What is sort?

A

separating the necessary items from the unnecessary items

71
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What is Set In Order?

A

arrange all items remaining after the sort in an orderly manner

72
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What is Shine?

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Clean equipment, tools, machines, desktop, walls, floors

73
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What is standardize?

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making cleaning and checking a routine

74
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What is sustain?

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Self discipline and commitment to keep doing the previous 4S’s

75
Q

Sort usually begins with what?

A

Red Tag Campaign

76
Q

How do you set up a email reference system?

A

Sort: Emails into Action or Reference

77
Q

How do you Set In Order email?

A

4D’s Delete It, Do It, Delegate It, Designate time for it.

78
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What is Heijunka?

A

Workload leveling

79
Q

What are the 3 laws of Operational System:

A

Bad Systems defeat Good people
Local Heroes produce weaker Operational systems
We are all connected

80
Q

Name 3 principles of Process Management

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  1. Reliable results come from reliable processes
  2. Improved results come from improved processes
  3. Teamwork is mandatory
81
Q

What is Kaizen?

A

Mind set of continuous improvement
Small consistent changes
Problem solving/process improvement method

82
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What is the heart of Kaizen?

A

PDCA

83
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Name the 7 steps of Kaizen:

A 
Theme
Grasp the situation
develop a plan
carryout a plan
Check the plan
Take Action
Conclusions
84
Q

Name 4 type of A3’s:

A

Problem Solving/Process Improvement
Information
Status
Proposal

85
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Define continuous flow:

A

aligning materials, manpower, machinery and methods

86
Q

What does Takt mean?

A

Tempo, Pace of meeting customer expectation

87
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Failure to implement pull will result in what?

A

Too much inventory

Not enough Inventory

88
Q

What produces only what the customer demands?

A

Pull Systems

89
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What is built in quality?

A

doing the right thing the first time.

90
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What is Poka-Yoke?

A

Avoiding Error

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