Lean Manufacturing Tools

Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Multimachine Handling The work practice of assigning operators to operate more than one machine in a process village layout. Requires th...

Muda, Mura, Muri Three terms often used together in the Toyota Production System (and called the Three Ms) that collectively describe was...

Milk Run A method to speed the flow of materials between facilities by routing vehicles to make multiple pick-ups and drop-offs at many f...

Material Flow The movement of physical items through the entire value stream. In mass production, products travel to centralized processes...

Level Selling A stance toward customers that presumes the level of demand for many products is relatively stable but often is perturbed ...

Lean Thinking A five-step thought process proposed by Womack and Jones in 1996 to guide managers through a lean transformation. The five p...

Lean Provision A term that encompasses lean manufacturing (or lean production) and all the other steps required to deliver the desired va...

Lean Promotion Office A resource team for a lean transformation, often formed from preexisting industrial engineering, maintenance, facili...

Lean Product and Process Development A business system focused on eliminating waste in product and process development by generating an...

Lean Logistics A pull system with frequent, small-lot replenishment established between each of the firms and facilities along a value s...

Lean Enterprise A continuing agreement among all the firms sharing the value stream for a product family to correctly specify value from ...

Lean Consumption and Lean Provision Maps A consumption map is a simple diagram of all the actions customers must take to acquire given go...

Lean Consumption The complementary process to lean production. Lean consumption calls for streamlining all the actions that must be take...

LAMDA Cycle (Look, Ask, Model, Discuss, Act) The basic learning cycle of lean product and process development that encompasses five class...

Labor Linearity A philosophy for flexibly manning a production process (in particular a cell) so that the number of operators increases o...