Final Test Flashcards

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Who is Dr. Taichi Ohno

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Father of Toyota Manufacturing

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What are the 7 ways of Taichi Ohno “Wastes”*

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Waste from over production 
Waste of waiting time 
Transportation waste
Inventory Waste
Processing waste and scraping 
Waste of motion 
Waste from product defects
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Waste from over production *

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Produce more than needed

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Waste of waiting time *

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Not waste from people waiting. It is from Work in Process waiting.

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Transportation waste*

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Moving the goods from one place to another. Warehouse to floor and then from floor to warehouse. Back and forth (unnecessary)

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Inventory Waste*

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Takes up space, person needs to manage it, then move it around.

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Processing waste and scraping *

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Inventory that is unfixable and you are having to throw it away.

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Waste of motion *

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Unncessary motion by worker.

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Waste from product defects *

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Products you can fix, but it takes time away from other things, and money that is now being wasted.

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What is Uniform plant loading *

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Taking the number of products needed and producing them over the period of time before they are to be sold.

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Kanban

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Card signal system: No computers in the past so this system made it so everyone knew what was going on and what was needed.

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Lean Production

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a focus on eliminating as much waste as possible

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Customer Value

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defined as something for which the customer is willing to pay

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Waste

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is deefined as anything that does not add value from the customer’s perspective

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15
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Value Stream

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Consists of the value-adding and non-value-addings activities required to design, order, and and prvide a product or service from concept to launch, order to delivery, and raw materials to customers.

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16
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Waste reduction

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The optimization of the value-adding activities and the elimination of non-value-adding activities that are part of the value stream.

17
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Lean suppliers

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Culture is one of continuous improvement.

To develop lean suppliers, organizations should include them in their value added stream planning.

18
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Lean procurement

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Automation and visibility

19
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Lean Manufacturing

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Produce what the customer wants, in the quantity they want, when they want it, and with minimal resources.

20
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Lean Warehousing

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Eliminating non value added steps and waste in product storage.

21
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Lean Logistics

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Can be applied to the functions associated with the movement of material through the system.
Eliminating non Claude added activities while improving the value added activities.

22
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Lean Customers

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Understand their business needs.
High levels of delivery performance.
Effective partnerships.
Value in their products

23
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Value stream mapping

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flowcharting tool. used to visualize product flows through various processing steps.

24
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Preventive maintenance

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Group Technology (GT)
is a philosophy in which similar parts are grouped into families, and the processes required to make the parts are marranged in a manufacturing cell.
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Quaility at the source
means do it right the first time and, when something goes wrong, stop the process or assembly line immediately.
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JIT Produciton
producing what is needed when needed and no more.
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Level Schedule
is one that requires material to be pulled into final assembly in a pattern uniform enough to allow the various elements of produciotn to respond to pull signals.
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Backflush
is used where the parts that go into each unit of the product are periodically removed from inventory and accounted for based on the number of units produced
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Freeze window
period of time during which the schedule is fixed and no further changes are possible.
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Uniform plant loading
smoothing the production flow to dampen the reaction waves that normall occur in response to schedule variations
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What is ROP
The period of inventory level for which we should make a new order.