Waste Reduction Flashcards
What is Waste Reduction?
a. Maximize customer value while minimizing waste
Describe why we use Waste Reduction/LEAN?
a. When there is a need to eliminate waste or optimize flow when it makes business sense
What are the types of waste?
a. Transportation
b. Inventory
c. Motion
d. Waiting
e. Overproduction
f. Over processing
g. Defects
h. Skills
What are some tools to identify and reduce waste?
a. Gemba Walk
b. Visual Management
c. Spaghetti Diagram
d. 5S
e. Value Stream Map
f. Process Value Map
The different types of value are:
a. Value-added
b. Non-value-added
c. Value enabling
How would you define flow?
The continuous movement of products, services and information through a process
Waste (Non-Value-Add) can be described as:
a. Consuming resources without adding value
Value-enabling can be described as:
a. Required to be done for Value-Add to be completed
What are the three things required for Value-Add?
a. Changes the product or service in some way
b. Done right the first time
c. Customer is willing to pay for it
What does “LEAN” start with?
a. What is important to the customer (CTQs)
What does 5S stand for?
a. Sort, Set in Order, Shine, Standardize, Sustain
What are the reasons we do 5S?
a. Eliminates clutter and Waste
b. Organize workspace to allow for flow
c. Remove things getting in the way of hands, bodies and minds
d. Workplace standardization
e. Improves morale
f. Improves safety
g. Improves productivity & efficiency
What is Value Stream Mapping?
*Method for analyzing the current state and designing a future state
*Displays the relationship between production processes in a visual manner
*Shows the flow of information and material as they occur
*Separates value-added and non-value-added activities
How would you describe PDCA?
a. Simple approach used for process control and continuous improvement
b. Four step repetitive cycle:
- Plan: Identify the problem/opportunity
- Do: Test potential solutions
- Check: Study results
- Act: Implement the best solution
What is Visual Management?
A technique using Visual displays and controls to allow quick recognition of information being communicated
What is a GEMBA walk and how do you do it?
a. it is a focused, planned approach to understand who, what, and why things are happening in order to identify improvement opportunities.
b. to perform a GEMBA walk, you have to go where the work is happening and observe it
What are the benefits of doing a GEMBA walk?
a. Understand what is going right and what is going wrong
b. Listen to ideas on how to correct the wrong
c. Share what you see with others
d. Creates buy-in and promotes teamwork
e. Builds a culture of continuous improvement
What is Kaizen?
a. A commitment to continuous improvement through making frequent small changes to improve processes.
What approach would we use for a Kaizen Event at Penske?
a. Workout
