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LEAN TERMS & DEFINITIONS

Below are common terms and definitions used in a World Class Lean environment.

3 P's - A Production Preparation Process
5s
Activity Based Costing
Adjustment Elimination
Administrative Lean
Advanced Quality System
Andon
Batch and Queue
Cash Flow
Cells
Chaku-Chaku
Continuous Improvement
Continuous Improvement Event
Control Item
Control Point
Cost
Cp Process Capability
Customer Satisfaction
Customer Satisfaction Unit
Cycle Time
Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DFMA)
Design of Experiments (DOE)
Driver Measure - Countermeasure
Elimination of Waste
Enterprise Excellence
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Error Proofing
Escapes
First Pass Yield
Five Why's
Flow
Flow Production
Gainsharing
Hanedashi (Vigorously Expel)
Heijunka
Histogram
Human Resource Development
Human Resource Management
Inventory
Inventory Turns
ISO 9000
Jidoka
June in Time Manufacturing
Kaikaku
Kaizen
Kanban
Key Strategies and Objectives
Lead Time
Lean Enterprise
Lean Manufacturing
Lean Six Sigma
Make it Ugly!
Material Management
Material Replenishment System (MRS)
Material Requirements Work Order (MRP)
Mixed Model
Monument
Muda

Multi-Skilled Worker
Multi-Task Working
Objective
On Time Delivery
One Piece Flow
One Year Plan
Operating Margin
Organization Structure
Organizational Tools
Pareto Chart
Pay for Performance
Physical Layout
Poka-yoke
Policy
Policy Deployment
Pro Forma
Problem Solving
Process
Process Mapping
Process Villages
Processing Time
Product Family
Pull Production
Quality Assurance
Quality at the Source
Quality Control
Quality Improvement
Revenue Growth
Right Sizing
Right-Sized Tool
Sensei
Seven Types of Waste plus One
Single Minute Exchange of Dies (SMED)
Single-Piece Flow
Six Sigma
Spaghetti Chart
Standard Operation
Standard Work
Standard Work in Process (SWIP)
Strategic Planning
Supply Chain
Supportive Environment
Target Cost
Team Building
Throughput Time
Total Business Return (TBR)
Total Employee Engagement
Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
Total Quality Management
Value
Value Engineering
Value Stream Map
Value Stream Mapping
Visual Controls
Visual Management
Water Spider
Work Measurement
World Class Manufacturing