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Seiban -
the name of a Japanese management practice taken from the Japanese words "sei", which means manufacturing, and "ban", which means number. A Seiban number is assigned to all parts, materials, and purchase orders associated with a particular customer job, or with a project, or anything else.
This enables a manufacturer to track everything related with a particular product, project, or customer. It also facilitates setting aside inventory for specific projects or priorities. That makes it great for project and build-to-order manufacturing.
Self-Directed Natural Work Teams -
Nearly autonomous teams of empowered employees, including hourly workers that share a common workspace and/or responsibility for a particular process or process segment.
Typically such teams have authority for day-to-day production activities and many supervisory responsibilities, such as job assignments, production scheduling, maintenance, materials purchasing, training, quality assurance, performance appraisals, and customer service. Often called "self-managed" work teams.
Sensei -
one who provides information; a teacher, instructor, or rabbi.
Setup Time -
work required to change over a machine or process from one item or operation to the next item or operation; can be divided into two types:
1. internal: setup work that can be done only when the machine or process is not actively engaged in production;
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2. external: setup work that can be done concurrently with the machine or process performing production duties.
7 wastes or seven forms of "Muda"
Taiichi Ohno's original enumeration of the wastes commonly found in physical production.
They are overproduction, waiting, transportation, overprocessing, excess inventory, worker movement, and production of defective parts.
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Flowcharts, Cause-and-effect diagrams, Check sheets, Histograms, Scatter diagrams, Pareto charts, Control charts.
Shojinka -
continually optimizing the number of workers in a work center to meet the type and volume of demand imposed on the work center; shojinka requires workers trained in multiple disciplines; work center layout, such as U-shaped or circular, that supports a variable number of workers performing the tasks in the layout; the capability to vary the manufacturing process as appropriate to fit the demand profile.
Single Minute Exchange of Dies (SMED) -
A series of techniques pioneered by Shigeo Shingo for changeovers of production machinery in less than ten minutes. One-Touch setup is the term applied when changeovers require less than a minute.
Obviously, the long-term objective is always zero setup, in which changeovers are instantaneous and do not interfere in any way with continuous flow.
Single Piece Flow -
A situation in which products proceed, one complete product at a time, through various operations in design, order taking, and production, without interruptions, backflows, or scrap.
Six Sigma -
Six Sigma is a term used to describe a measure of quality control that is higher than "normal". The manufacturer generally associated with starting Six Sigma programs is General Electric.
Six Sigma is a methodology that is intended to reduce process variation to within a limit that will result in 3.4 defects per million samples or less.
Spaghetti Chart -
A map of the path taken by a specific product as it travels down the value stream in a mass-production organization, so-called because the product's route typically looks like a plate of spaghetti.
Stakeholder Map
A tool used during the diagnostic phase of implementation showing the relationships and relative spheres of individuals and groups within an organization.
Standard Work -
A precise description of each work activity specifying cycle time, takt time, the work sequence of specific tasks, and the minimum inventory of parts on hand needed to conduct the activity.
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