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Lean production
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Integrated activities designed to achieve high-volume, high-quality production using minimal inventories of raw materials, work-in-process, and finished goods
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Customer value
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In the context of lean, something for which the customer is willing to pay
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Waste
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Something that does not add value from the customer's perspective
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Value stream
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These are the value-adding and non-value-adding activities required to design, order and provide a product from concept to launch, order to delivery and raw materials to customers.
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Waste reduction
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The optimization of value-adding activities and elimination of non-value-adding activities that are part of the value stream.
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Value stream mapping
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A graphical way to analyze where value is or is not being added as material flows through a process
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Kaizen
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Japanese philosophy that focuses on continuous improvement
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Preventive maintenance
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Periodic inspection and repair designed to keep equipment reliable
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Group technology
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a philosophy in which similar parts are grouped into families, and the processes required to make the parts are arranged in a specialized work cell
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Qualiy at the source
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philosophy of making factory workers personally responsible for the quality of their output. workers are expected to make the part correctly the first time and to stop the process immediately if there is a problem
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Level schedule
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a schedule that pulls material into final assembly at a constant rate
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Freeze window
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The period of time during which the schedule is fixed and no further changes are possible
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Backflush
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Calculating how many of each part were used in production and using these calculations to adjust actual on-hand inventory balances. This eliminates the need to actually track each part used in production.
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Uniform plant loading
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Smoothing the production flow to dampen schedule variation
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Kanban and the kanban pull system
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An inventory or production control system that uses a signalling device to regulate flows.
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