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Gemba Kaizen
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1. A chart with upper and lower control limits on which values of some statistical measures for a series of samples or subgroups are plotted. The chart frequently shows a central line to help detect a trend of plotted values toward either control limit.
Standardization
Gemba
Control chart
Flow Production
2. Japanese word meaning irregularity or variability.
1st Kaizen step
SDCA
Mura
Standards
3. Teamwork - Personal discipline - Improved morale - Quality circles - Suggestions for improvement
Five M's (5M)
5 Kaizen Elements
Hiyari KYT
Gembutsu
4. The scare report is a written form from a worker to a supervisor that reports a condition that is unsafe and could lead to quality problems and/or accident.
QCDMS
Hiyari report
PDCA
Delivery
5. The place where work-in-processes and supplies are stored in gemba. A store room is different from the normal warehouse since only standardized inventory is kept in the store room.
Hiyari report
Store room
JK (jishu kanri)
Suggestion system
6. Japanese word meaning strain and difficulty.
Suggestion system
Kaizen Cycle
Kanban
Muri
7. Shewart cycle - Deming cycle - PDCA
Takt time
Hiyari KYT
Other cycles
Statistical quality control (SQC)
8. A principle related to occurrence ratio of accidents with injuries. Heinrich expressed the ratio as follows: Serious injury:minor injury:no injury = 1:29:300. This equation expresses that when you see 1 person who was seriously injured by an accident
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9. The Japanese words referring to conventional perception of gemba - kiken (dangerous) - kitanai (dirty) - and kitsui (stressful) - in direct contrast to the idea of gemba being the place where real value is added and the source of ideas for achieving
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10. The application of statistical techniques to control a process. Often the term 'statistical quality control' is used interchangeably.
Kosu
Statistical process control (SPC)
Kaizen story
Five S's (5S)
11. When used in the contact of QCD - the word cost usually refers to cost management - and not cost cutting. Cost management refers to managing various resources properly - and eliminating all sort of muda in such a way that the overall cost goes down.
Cross-funtional management
Pull production
Statistical process control (SPC)
Cost
12. A checklist for good housekeeping to achieve greater order - efficiency - and discipline in the workplace. It is derived from the Japanese words seiri - seiton - seiso - seiketsu - and shituke and adopted to the English equivalents of sort - straight
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13. Standardization is one of the three foundations of gemba kaizen activities and means the documentation of the best way to do the job.
Takt time
Standardization
Check gembutsu
Five golden rules of gemba management
14. In gemba - oftern Morale (M) and Safety (S) are added to QCD as a target to be achieved.
Visual management
QCDMS
Kosu
Hiyari report
15. The top management must make certain that all levels of the com pay work to achieve Quality - Cost - and Delivery. The ultimate goal is to realize QCD simultaneously - but first of all - priority must be established among the three - quality always b
Muri
Three K's (3K)
Simultaneous realization of QCD
Value analysis (VA)
16. The first principle of gemba kaizen. This is a reminder that whenever abnormality occurs - or whenever a manager wishes to know the current state of operations - he or she should go to gemba right away - since gemba is a source of all information.
Go to gemba
Heinrich's Law
Gembutsu
Push production
17. A form of root cause analysis in which the user asks 'why' to a problem and its answer up to five (if needed) successive times
Flow Production
Gembutsu
Hiyari KYT
5 Whys
18. An optimum combination of man - machine - and material. The three elements of standardized work are take time - work sequence - and standard work-in-process.
Cycle time
Standardized work
One-piece flow
Quality circles
19. A method for managing resources in gemba - specifically those know as '5M' - manpower - machine - material - method - and measurement.
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20. Failure Mode and Effect Analysis is an an analytical tool used to predict and eliminate in advance any potential design defect in new product by analyzing the effects of failure modes of component parts on the final product performance.
FMEA
4th Kaizen step
Muda
Kosu
21. The application of statistical techniques to control quality. Often used interchangeably with statistical process control - but includes acceptance sampling as well as statistical process control.
Gemba
Statistical quality control (SQC)
QCD
Jidhoka (autonomation)
22. An affirmative indication or judgement that a product or service has met the requirements of a relevant specification - contract - or regulation.
Conformance
Kaizen systems
Flow Production
Delivery
23. Only one work piece is allowed to flow from process to process to minimize muda in a JIT production system.
One-piece flow
Morning market
QCDMS
5th Kaizen step
24. The opposite of pull production. The previous process produces as much as it can without regard for to the actual requirements of the next process and sends them to the next process whether there is a need or not.
Five M's (5M)
Other cycles
Cost
Push production
25. A daily routine at gemba that involved examining rejects made the previous day before the work begins so that countermeasures can be adopted as soon as possible - based on gemba-gembutsu principles.
Mura
Morning market
5 Whys
Go to gemba
26. In the context of QCD - quality refers to the quality of products or services delivered to the customer. In this instance - quality refers to the conformance to specifications and customer requirements. In a broader sense - quality refers to the qual
Standards
Quality
Five golden rules of gemba management
Flow Production
27. A method for cost reduction; it aims at reducing material and component costs at the upstream stages of designing and design reviews and involves cross-functional collaborations of product design - production engineering - quality assurance - and man
Gembutsu
Check gembutsu
Value analysis (VA)
5 Whys
28. A graphical tool for ranking causes from the most significant to the least significant. The Pareto principle (80:20) suggests that 80 percent of effects come from 20 percent of the possible causes. The Pareto chart is one of the seven basic tools of
Pareto chart
Kaizen Cycle
Three K's (3K)
QF
29. Measure the standardized operation (find cycle time and amount of in-process inventory)
Mura
Heinrich's Law
2nd Kaizen step
Hiyari KYT
30. Gauge measurements against requirements
5 Kaizen Elements
Ask why five times
Push production
3rd Kaizen step
31. Jishu kanji means autonomous management in Japanese and refers to workers' participation in kaizen activities as part of their daily activities under the guidance of the line manager.
Quality
JIT (just-in-time)
Cycle time
JK (jishu kanri)
32. A system designed to achieve the best possible quality - cost - and delivery of products and services by eliminating all kinds of muda in a company's internal processes and deliver products just-in-time to meet customer's requirements.
Other cycles
JIT (just-in-time)
Pareto chart
Statistical process control (SPC)
33. A standardized problem-solving procedure to be used at each level of organization. Kaizen story has eight steps: (1)select a project - (2)understand current situations and set objectives - (3)analyze data to identify root causes - (4)establish counte
Muri
Kaizen story
Simultaneous realization of QCD
Muda
34. A set of the most practical reminders in implementing kaizen in gemba: (1)Go to gemba when problems arise; (2)check gembutsu; (3)take temporary measures on the spot; (4)find and eliminate the root cause; and (5)standardize to prevent recurrence.
Simultaneous realization of QCD
Pull production
Five golden rules of gemba management
5 Whys
35. In Japan - the suggestion system is a highly integrated part of individual-oriented kaizen. The Japanese-style suggestions systems emphasizes morale-boosting benefits and positive employee participation over the economic and financial incentives that
Suggestion system
5 Kaizen Elements
Control chart
Don't get it - don't make it - don't send it
36. The three major resources to be managed in gemba - manpower - material - and machine.
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37. Quality - Cost - and delivery is regarded as an ultimate goal of management. When management is successful in achieving QCD - both customer satisfaction and corporate success follow.
Takt time
Standards
Store room
QCD
38. Standardize an operation and activities
JIT (just-in-time)
1st Kaizen step
PDCA
QCD
39. When used in the contact of QCD - the word delivery refers to meeting both the delivery as well as the volume requirements of the customer.
One-piece flow
Delivery
Cycle time
Muda
40. Refers to the specific man hours it takes to process one unit of product in a given process and is calculated by multiplying the number of workers involved in the process by the actual time it takes to complete the process - and dividing that by the
1st Kaizen step
Kosu
FMEA
Gembutsu
41. Quality Function Deployment is a management approach to identify customer requirements first - and then work back through the stages of design - engineering - production - sales - and after-service of products.
QF
Check gembutsu
Statistical process control (SPC)
Kaizen concepts
42. A Japanese word meaning 'real place' - now adapted in management terminology to mean the 'workplace' or that place where value is added.
Morning market
Gemba
Cross-funtional management
Check gembutsu
43. Failure Tree Analysis is used to analyze and avoid in advance any safety and reliability problems by identifying cause-and-effect relationships and probability of problems by using the tree diagram.
Failure Tree Analysis (FTA)
Other cycles
Go to gemba
Takt time
44. Standardize-Do-Check-Act - the basic steps to be followed to maintain the current status.
Check gembutsu
Mura
SDCA
QCDMS
45. A diagram to show causes (process) and the effect (result). The diagram is used to determine the real cause(s) and is one of seven basic tools of problem solving.
Kosu
Ishikawa (fishbone) diagram
Kaizen systems
Gemba
46. Acceptable Quality Level s a practice between customers and suppliers that allows suppliers to deliver a certain percentage of rejects by paying penalties.
AQL
One-piece flow
Total quality control
4th Kaizen step
47. Organized kaizen activities on quality involves everyone in a company - managers and workers - in a totally integrated effort tower kaizen at every level. Also referred to as Total Quality Management.
Total quality control
Statistical process control (SPC)
Quality circles
Kosu
48. An interdepartmental management activity to realize QCD.
Cross-funtional management
4th Kaizen step
Flow Production
Quality
49. An effective management method to provide information and gembutsu in a clearly visible manner to both workers and managers so that the current state of operations and the target for kaizen are understood by everybody. It also helps people to identif
Visual management
Quality
Pareto chart
Kosu
50. Kaizen and management; Process versus result; Following the PDCA/SDCA; Putting quality first; Speaking with data; Treating the next process as the customer.
Delivery
Kaizen concepts
Five S's (5S)
Conformance
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