Key Lean Terms

485 Exam 2

Muda

Waste

Muri

Strain (on process or workers)

Mura

Inconsistency (variation in the process)

Andon

Stop the Line Signal

Kaizen

Continuous Improvement Project

Gemba

Walk the Process

Nagara

Smooth Production Flow

Shojinka

Load Balancing

Takt

Time between finished product units exiting process needed to support demand rate

Jidoka

Quality at Source

Kanban

Work-in-Process Inventory Container/Card

Heijunka

Production Leveling Display Board

Poka-Yoke

Error-Proofing

Hoshin-Kanri

Policy Deployment (Strategic Planning)

Obeya

War-Room (Process Improvement Milestones Debriefing Sessions)

Yokoten

Sharing of Best Practices

A3

9-Box template for completing a lean project

Cycle Time

Processing time per unit at a Process Step

Push Flow

Material Flow where upstream process step pushes completed work to downstream process step

TPS

Toyota Production System

SMED

Single Minute Exchange of Dies

Cellular Layout/Group Technology

Machines organized to completely process a part (instead of part going through multiple departments)

JIT

Just-in-Time production, delivery, supply

Pull Flow

Material Flow where upstream process step transfers completed work to downstream process step only as needed

TPM

Total Productive Maintenance

EPEx

Every Part Every x (hours or days)

Milk Run

3rd Party Logistics Firm picking up LTL loads from sources and delivering to destinations along a typically circular route