Types of Improvement Flashcards
What is “Kanban (pull system”?
Kanban is a method where material, product, or work is provided to a succeeding operation by signaling the preceding organization when more material, product, or work is needed.
What is a “Kaizen blitz”?
A kaizen event, or kaizen blitz, is a rapid, intense, short timeframe approach used to quickly resolve a serious process problem or accomplish a critical task; usually completed within 3 to 5 days.
Footnote
It is a gradual improvement that is integrated into organizational operations, quality improvement becomes ingrained in the organizations, people, and product and service quality follows .
What does Kaizen mean?
Kaizen is a Japanese word that means continuous or incremental improvement.
What is Just-In-Time (JIT)?
Just-In-Time (JIT) is a method where material or product is produced only as it is needed. It prevents excess stock and inventory by mandating production and delivery only when necessary and in the necessary quantity.
Footnote
JIT aims to prevent excess stock and inventory by producing and delivering only what is necessary, when it is necessary.
What is 5S?
Sort, Set, Shine, Standardize, and Sustain. It is intended to create a clean and organized workplace that includes visual control and supports a Lean production approach.
What does the first S in 5S represent?
The first S is ‘Sort’. It involves removing unnecessary items from the workplace and disposing of them properly to eliminate obstacles.
What does the second S in 5S represent?
The second S is ‘Set’. It means arranging necessary items in a logical, convenient order for easy access, preventing loss of time.
What does the third S in 5S represent?
The third S is ‘Shine’. It involves cleaning the workplace completely and keeping it safe and easy to work in!
What does the fourth S in 5S represent?
The fourth S is ‘Standardize’. It means maintaining high standards of organization and a common set of tools to minimize training and inventory.
What does the fifth S in 5S represent?
The fifth S is ‘Sustain’. It involves maintaining the performance of the 5S by promoting ownership among all users.
What is a value stream map?
Help analyze value and non-value in a current process to create a future state map with optimized value-added steps and minimized or eliminated non-value-added steps.
How are value stream maps used?
Used to study the flow of materials, time, and information that occurs as a process transforms inputs into outputs.
Use a value stream map when you need to:
• understand and improve the flow of information that accompanies a work process
• identify potential areas of waste in time and costs
• shorten processing times
What is Poka Yoke?
Poka Yoke is a means error or mistake proofing and preventing them implementing fail safes through the use of physical, procedural, visual, or other forms of preventive tactics that assure proper execution of a process step.
What are the six steps of benchmarking?
- Identify what to benchmark
- Decide who to benchmark
- Determine what data to collect and collect it
- Contact the benchmark organization
- Arrange the visit and people will physically visit the company to ask critical questions
- Determine the application (decide how to use the data collected to make changes)
What is benchmarking and how does it support best practices?
Benchmarking is an evaluation technique in which a process of comparing business processes and performance metrics to industry bests and best practices from other companies.
This helps identify shortcomings and establishes a baseline or standard against which to measure its progress.
ASQ Notes: 253 III.A.3
