War On Waste Flashcards

1
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An operational excellence strategy that enables people to improve the operations at little capital expense.

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Lean Operations

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2
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Defined by the customer

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Value

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3
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Sequence of steps taken to create value

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Value stream

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4
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Developed so that products and services moved effectively through the value stream

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Flow

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5
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Make/process only what and when the customers needs

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Pull

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6
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Constantly seek out ways to perfect the system

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Perfection

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7
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The person who wants your product/service for its value

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The Customer

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8
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The person who gets a driver’s license

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The customer

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9
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Determined from the point of view of the customer

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Value

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10
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Activities that change the material or information being worked on and increases it’s value

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Value Add

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11
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Activities that are essential to create value-such as legal or regulatory-but do not add value to the customer

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Necessary Non-value Add

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12
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The process that doesn’t add value to the customer

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Waste

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13
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What is more than the minimum amount of equipment, materials, parts, space, and worker’s time, which does not add value to the product.

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Waste

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14
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Monde Nissin 7 Wastes

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  1. Defects
  2. Transportation, Motion
  3. Waiting
  4. Inventory (excess) & overproduction
  5. Wrong Processing
  6. Energy and Water
  7. Safety
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15
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When products or service deviate from what the customer requires or what was in the product specifications

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Defects

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16
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Mistake proofing

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Poka Yoke

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17
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Inadvertent error prevention

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Poka Yoke

18
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It can be devices that defect if a product is defective

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Poka Yoke

19
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Autonomation

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Jidoka

20
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Automation with a human touch

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Jidoka

21
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Gives equipment the ability to distinguish good parts from bad

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Jidoka

22
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Unnecessary movements or transfer of parts or equipments between processes

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Transportation

23
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Movement that is not directly associated with a value adding process

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Transport waste

24
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Any unnecessary movement of people or machine that does not add value to the product

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Motion

25
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Originally, this referred to ergonomics. If workers need to bend, stretch, walk, lift, or reach too much, it introduces health and safety risks

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Motion

26
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People or parts that wait for a work cycle to be completed

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Waiting

27
Q

We often hold far more than is required to produces goods and services when the customer wants them

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Waste of Excess Inventory

28
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A methodology aimed primarily at reducing flow times within production system as well as response times from suppliers and to customers

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Just in Time Production

29
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It is an inventory strategy companies employ to increase efficiency and decrease waste by receiving goods only as they are needed in the production process, thereby reducing inventory costs

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Just in Time Manufacturing

30
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Japanese for visual signal or card

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Kanban

31
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The system’s highly visual nature allowed teams to communicate more easily on what work needed to be done and when.

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Kanban

32
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It also standardized cues and refined processes, which helped to reduce waste and maximize value

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Kanban

33
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It improves communication through visual management.

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Kanban

34
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Best to use when supply is lengthy and demand is difficult to forecast

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Kanban

35
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To produce sooner, faster, or in greater quantities than the customer demands

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Overproduction

36
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Manufacturing an item before it is needed or, simply, making too much or too many of it

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Overproduction

37
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Processing beyond the standard required by the customer

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Over processing

38
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Over designed or over engineered product

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Over processing

39
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Redundant steps checking someone else’s work, obtaining multiple signatures or excessive reviews

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Over processing

40
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The unnecessary/over-use of electricity, power, heat and water beyond the required amount, and at an inappropriate time

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Energy and water

41
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Opportunity lost because of unsafe acts or unsafe condition

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Safety