War On Waste

Question 1

An operational excellence strategy that enables people to improve the operations at little capital expense.

Answer 1

Lean Operations

Question 2

Defined by the customer

Answer 2

Value

Question 3

Sequence of steps taken to create value

Answer 3

Value stream

Question 4

Developed so that products and services moved effectively through the value stream

Answer 4

Flow

Question 5

Make/process only what and when the customers needs

Answer 5

Pull

Question 6

Constantly seek out ways to perfect the system

Answer 6

Perfection

Question 7

The person who wants your product/service for its value

Answer 7

The Customer

Question 8

The person who gets a driver’s license

Answer 8

The customer

Question 9

Determined from the point of view of the customer

Answer 9

Value

Question 10

Activities that change the material or information being worked on and increases it’s value

Answer 10

Value Add

Question 11

Activities that are essential to create value-such as legal or regulatory-but do not add value to the customer

Answer 11

Necessary Non-value Add

Question 12

The process that doesn’t add value to the customer

Answer 12

Waste

Question 13

What is more than the minimum amount of equipment, materials, parts, space, and worker’s time, which does not add value to the product.

Answer 13

Waste

Question 14

Monde Nissin 7 Wastes

Answer 14

1. Defects
2. Transportation, Motion
3. Waiting
4. Inventory (excess) & overproduction
5. Wrong Processing
6. Energy and Water
7. Safety

Question 15

When products or service deviate from what the customer requires or what was in the product specifications

Answer 15

Defects

Question 16

Mistake proofing

Answer 16

Poka Yoke

Question 17

Inadvertent error prevention

Answer 17

Poka Yoke

Question 18

It can be devices that defect if a product is defective

Answer 18

Poka Yoke

Question 19

Autonomation

Answer 19

Jidoka

Question 20

Automation with a human touch

Answer 20

Jidoka

Question 21

Gives equipment the ability to distinguish good parts from bad

Answer 21

Jidoka

Question 22

Unnecessary movements or transfer of parts or equipments between processes

Answer 22

Transportation

Question 23

Movement that is not directly associated with a value adding process

Answer 23

Transport waste

Question 24

Any unnecessary movement of people or machine that does not add value to the product

Answer 24

Motion

Question 25

Originally, this referred to ergonomics. If workers need to bend, stretch, walk, lift, or reach too much, it introduces health and safety risks

Answer 25

Motion

Question 26

People or parts that wait for a work cycle to be completed

Answer 26

Waiting

Question 27

We often hold far more than is required to produces goods and services when the customer wants them

Answer 27

Waste of Excess Inventory

Question 28

A methodology aimed primarily at reducing flow times within production system as well as response times from suppliers and to customers

Answer 28

Just in Time Production

Question 29

It is an inventory strategy companies employ to increase efficiency and decrease waste by receiving goods only as they are needed in the production process, thereby reducing inventory costs

Answer 29

Just in Time Manufacturing

Question 30

Japanese for visual signal or card

Answer 30

Kanban

Question 31

The system’s highly visual nature allowed teams to communicate more easily on what work needed to be done and when.

Answer 31

Kanban

Question 32

It also standardized cues and refined processes, which helped to reduce waste and maximize value

Answer 32

Kanban

Question 33

It improves communication through visual management.

Answer 33

Kanban

Question 34

Best to use when supply is lengthy and demand is difficult to forecast

Answer 34

Kanban

Question 35

To produce sooner, faster, or in greater quantities than the customer demands

Answer 35

Overproduction

Question 36

Manufacturing an item before it is needed or, simply, making too much or too many of it

Answer 36

Overproduction

Question 37

Processing beyond the standard required by the customer

Answer 37

Over processing

Question 38

Over designed or over engineered product

Answer 38

Over processing

Question 39

Redundant steps checking someone else’s work, obtaining multiple signatures or excessive reviews

Answer 39

Over processing

Question 40

The unnecessary/over-use of electricity, power, heat and water beyond the required amount, and at an inappropriate time

Answer 40

Energy and water

Question 41

Opportunity lost because of unsafe acts or unsafe condition

Answer 41

Safety