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Lean Terms- 1/3 – 2/3 Planning Rule
- 10-Foot, 3-Second Rule
- 10-Year Old Mindset
- 100-Mile Rule
- 100% Inspection
- 11 “C’s” of Lean Leadership
- 14 Points, Deming’s
- 3 Reals
- 3P / Production Preparation Process
- 4 P’s of Marketing
- 4-10 Workweek
- 5 Principles of Lean
- 5 Ps of Effective Meetings
- 5 Whys
- 5S
- 5W1H
- 6 Big Losses of OEE
- 6 M’s
- 6 P’s
- 6S
- 7 Basic Tools of Quality / 7 QC Tools
- 7 Wastes
- 8 Disciplines
- 8 Wastes / 8th Waste
- 80/20 Rule
- 8D Analysis
- 8D Problem Solving / 8 Disciplines
- 9-Square (Prioritization Tool)
- A/P or AP
- A3 Management
- A3 Problem Solving
- A3 Process
- A3 Report
- A3 Thinking
- ABC Inventory
- ABC Machines
- Abnormal Conditions
- Abnormality Management
- Absences
- Acceptable Quality Level (AQL)
- Acceptance Number
- Accountability in Lean
- Accounting
- Accounts Payable (A/P)
- Accuracy
- Action Date
- Action Plan
- Activity Ratio
- Activity-Based Costing
- Ad Hoc Query
- Administrative Processes
- Affinity Diagram
- Agile Manufacturing
- Aha! Moments
- Algorithm
- Allocation (Resource)
- Alpha Risk
- Alternative Hypothesis
- Ambiguity
- American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
- American Society for Quality (ASQ)
- Amortization
- Analysis
- Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
- Analysis Paralysis
- Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP)
- Analyze Phase of Six Sigma
- Andon
- Andon Board
- Annual Objectives
- Annualized Values
- Anomaly
- ANOVA
- ANSI
- Apples to Oranges Comparisons
- Appreciation (Employee Value)
- Appreciation for People
- AQL
- Artisan Processes
- Assembly Lines
- Asset
- Assignable Cause
- Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME)
- Assumptions
- Asynchronous Learning
- ATP / Available to Promise
- Attribute Data
- Attribution Theory
- Attrition
- Audits
- Authority
- Autoejector
- Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV)
- Automated Storage and Retrieval System (AS/RS)
- Automatic Machine Cycle Time
- Automatic Machine Time
- Automation
- Autonomation
- Autonomy
- Availability
- Average
- Back Office / Front Office
- Backflush
- Backlog (Order)
- Backsliding
- Backups (Employee)
- Baka Yoke
- Balanced Scorecard
- Bar Charts
- Barrier to Entry
- Barriers to Flow
- Baseline
- Baseline Metrics / Baseline Measures
- Batch and Queue
- Batch Manufacturing
- Batches
- Bells and Whistles
- Benchmarking
- Best Practices
- Beta Risk
- Better, Not Perfect
- Bias (In Data Collection)
- Bimodal Distribution
- Birdcage
- Black Belt
- Blamestorming
- Blitz, Kaizen
- Boredom
- Bottlenecks / Capacity Constraints
- Bowling Chart
- Brainstorming Techniques
- Brand
- Break-Even Point
- Breakthrough Improvements
- Breakthrough Objectives
- Briefback
- Buffer (Production)
- Buffer Time
- C-Level Executive
- Calibration
- Call Center
- Can’t
- Capability
- Capability Analysis
- Capacity
- Capital Expenses
- Card, Kanban
- Catalog Engineer
- Catchball
- Cause and Effect / Fishbone Diagram / Ishikawa Diagram
- CEDAC
- Cell, U-Shaped
- Cell, Work
- Cellular Manufacturing System
- Central Limit Theorem
- Central Tendency
- Certification (Lean or Six Sigma)
- Chaku-Chaku
- Chalk Circle
- Champion
- Change Agent
- Change Management
- Change Resistance
- Changeitis
- Changeover
- Chart, Process Flow
- Chart, Run
- Check Sheet
- Checklists
- Checkpoints
- Cherry Picking
- Clarity Impairment
- CLOSED MITT
- Co-Location
- Coaching
- Common Cause Variation
- Communication
- Competition
- Competitive Advantage
- Complacency
- Complexity
- Compromise
- Computers
- Concrete Head
- Concretitis
- Conflicts
- Confusion
- Consistency
- Constraints
- Consumer’s Risk
- Containment
- Continuous Data
- Continuous Flow
- Continuous Improvement
- Continuous Improvement Culture
- Contract (of Change)
- Control (DMAIC Step)
- Control (Scientific)
- Control Limits
- Control, Statistical
- Control, Visual
- Conveyors
- Cooperation
- Corrective Action Report (CAR)
- Correlation
- Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ)
- Costs
- Counterclockwise Flow
- Countermeasures
- Creativity
- Credibility of Lean
- Critical Few
- Criticism
- CRM / Customer Relationship Management
- Cross-Functional Team
- Cross-Training
- Culture, Continuous Improvement
- Curiosity
- Current State Map
- Current State Value Stream Map
- Customer Behavior
- Customers
- Cycle
- Cycle Time
- Cycle Time Reduction
- Daily Improvement
- Daily Management
- Dashboard
- Data
- Data Aversion Disease
- Data Collection
- Days Sales of Inventory (DSI)
- Days Sales Outstanding (DSO)
- Deadlines
- Decision
- Decision Making
- Decision Point
- Decision Trees
- Dedicated Equipment
- Defects
- Define (DMAIC Step)
- Delegation
- Delivery
- Delphi Method
- Demand Windows
- Demand, Customer
- Deming Cycle
- Deming, W. Edwards
- Design for Manufacturing
- Design of Experiments
- Diminishing Returns
- Dirt Allergies
- Dirty, Dumb, or Dangerous
- Discipline
- Discrete Data
- Disputes
- DMAIC (Six Sigma Problem Solving)
- DMAIC Cycle
- Documentation
- Downstream
- DPMO
- Drawers
- Drift (Process)
- Drum-Buffer-Rope
- Dunning-Kruger Effect
- Economy of Scale
- Effectiveness
- Efficiency
- Emotions
- Employee Engagement
- Enforcement
- Engineers
- Ergonomics
- Error Proofing
- Errors
- Evidence
- Executives
- Expectations
- Experience
- External Setup
- Extrapolation
- Fabrication
- Facilitation
- Facilitator
- Factory
- Facts and Data
- Fastcap
- Fatigue – Employee
- Feeder Lines
- FIFO (First In First Out)
- FIFO Lane
- Firefighting (Problems)
- First Pass Yield
- FISH / First In, Still Here
- Fishbone Diagram
- Fixtures
- Flat Surface Syndrome
- Flat Surfaces
- Flexibility
- Flow
- Flow Chart
- Flow Production
- Flowchart
- Follow-Up
- Ford, Henry
- Form, Fit, and Function
- Frontline Employees
- Frontline of Change
- Frustration
- FTE
- Functional Blindness
- Functional Layout
- Future State Value Stream Map (VSM)
- Gap Analysis
- Gauge
- Gauge R&R
- Gemba
- Gemba Walk
- Gembutsu
- Genchi Genbutsu
- Ghostism
- Gilbreth, Frank and Lillian
- Go / No-Go Gauge
- Go to Gemba
- Goal Setting
- Goldratt, Eliyahu M.
- Good Idea Fairy
- Graban, Mark
- Green Belt
- Groupthink
- Growth
- Guidance
- Guidelines
- Gut Feel
- Hajek, Jeff
- Half-Life of Knowledge
- Hammers
- Handoffs
- Hanedashi
- Hansei
- Hard Savings
- Hawthorne Effect
- Heijunka
- Hidden Factory / Hidden Process
- Histogram
- Hoarderism
- Hoshin Kanri
- How You Think Links
- Implementation
- Important vs. Urgent
- Imposter Syndrome
- Improvement, Daily
- Improvements
- Indicators
- Indirect Costs
- Industrial Discipline
- Information
- Information Technology (IT)
- Initiative
- Inputs
- Inspections
- Instant Pudding
- Intangibles
- Intelligence
- Intermittent Problems
- Internal Setup
- Internal Suppliers
- International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
- Interviews vs. Interrogations
- Inventory
- Investments in People
- Ishikawa, Kaoru
- Issues
- Jidoka
- Job Descriptions
- Job Rotation
- Job Satisfaction
- Job Security
- Job Shop
- Jones, Daniel T.
- Juran (formerly Juran Institute)
- Juran, Joseph M.
- Just-In-Case
- Just-in-Time Manufacturing
- Kaikaku
- Kaizen
- Kaizen Event
- Kaizen Kit
- Kaizen Problem Statement
- Kanban
- Key Performance Indicator
- Kitting
- Knowledge
- Knowledge Management
- Last-In, First-Out
- Law of Large Numbers
- Layoffs
- Layouts
- Lead Time
- Leader’s Intent
- Leaders
- Leadership
- Lean
- Lean Accounting
- Lean Enterprise Academy
- Lean Enterprise Institute
- Lean Global Network
- Lean Implementation
- Lean Manufacturing
- Lean Office
- Lean Six Sigma
- Lean Tools
- Level Loading
- Liker, Jeffrey K.
- Likert Scale
- Line Balancing
- Line Shift
- Line Stop
- Little’s Law
- Low Hanging Fruit
- Low-Key Kanban
- Luck
- Machine Cycle Time
- Machining Time / Machine Time
- Maintenance, Total Productive
- Manager
- Manufacturing, Just-in-Time
- Marketing
- Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
- Master Black Belt
- Mean (Average)
- Measure Phase of Six Sigma / DMAIC
- Median
- Meetings
- Memory
- Mentor
- Metrics
- Micromanagement
- Milestones
- Milk Run
- Mistake Proofing
- Mode
- Modelling
- Monuments
- Moonshine Shop
- Morale
- Motion Waste
- Motivation
- Motorola
- Muda (Waste)
- Muda, Muri, Mura
- Mura
- Muri
- Murphy’s Law
- Nagara
- Names
- National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
- Negotiation
- Net Present Value
- New Product Development (NPD)
- Night Shift
- No-No’s of Lean Operations
- Noise (Sound)
- Nominal Conditions
- Nominal Data
- Non-Value Added (NVA)
- Nopointosis
- Note Taking
- Null Hypothesis
- Objective vs. Subjective
- Observation
- Obsolescence
- Occam’s Razor
- Off the Shelf
- Office Politics
- Office Work, Hajek’s Law of
- Office, Lean
- Ohno, Taiichi
- One-Piece Flow
- One-Touch Exchange of Die (OTED)
- One-Touch Installation
- Operator Cycle Time
- Operators
- Opinions
- Opportunities
- Opportunity Costs
- Optimization
- Order Interaction Point
- OSHA
- Our Process Is Different
- Outsourcing
- Overproduction
- Overtime
- Ownership
- Pacemaker
- Paradigm / Paradigm Shift
- Pareto Chart
- Pareto Principle
- Pareto, Vilfredo
- Parkinson’s Law
- Patterns
- Payback Period
- PDCA Cycle
- PDSA / Plan-Do-Study-Act (or Adjust)
- Peer Pressure
- Perfection
- Pilot Project
- Playbook, Production
- Point-of-Use Inventory
- Poka Yoke
- Policy Deployment
- Practice
- Precision
- Predictability
- Predictive Maintenance
- Preventive Maintenance
- Priority Matrix
- Problem Solving
- Problems
- Procedures
- Process
- Process Flow Chart
- Process Improvement
- Process Map
- Process Metrics
- Producer’s Risk
- Product Family
- Production Plan
- Production, Over
- Productivity
- Profit
- Projects
- Pseudo Support Disorder
- Psychology of Lean
- Pull System
- Push System
- QCD / Quality, Cost, Delivery
- Quality
- Quality Circles
- Queue Time
- Queueing Theory
- Random
- Rapid Improvement Workshop / RIW
- Reaction Plan
- Regulations
- Relationships
- Reliability
- Repeatability
- Repetition
- Repetitive Stress Injury / Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
- Reproducibility
- Resources
- Respect for People
- Responsibility
- Results
- Rework
- Right-Sized Machine
- RIPS Cycle
- Risk Management
- Root Cause
- Rother, Mike
- Rule of Thumb
- Rules
- Run Chart
- Safety
- Savings
- Scalability
- Schedules
- Scientific Method
- Scope
- Seasonality
- Selective Hearing Syndrome
- Sensei
- Sensors
- Separate Man from Machine
- Setup Reduction
- Setup Time
- Seven Wastes
- Shadow Board
- Sharpen the Axe
- Sheet, Standard Work Combination
- Shewhart, Walter A.
- Shingijutsu
- Shingo Institute
- Shingo, Shigeo
- Shojinka
- Shook, John
- Shop Floor
- Shop Floor Phobia
- Side Effects of Lean
- Simplicity
- Single Minute Exchange of Die
- Six Sigma
- Skew
- Skills
- SMART Goals
- SME (Formerly Society of Manufacturing Engineers)
- SMED
- Smith, Bill
- Soft Savings
- Solutions
- SOP / Standard Operating Procedure
- Spaghetti Charts
- Speaking in Negatives
- Special Cause Variation
- Specifications
- Squirrel Chasing Syndrome
- Stability
- Staffing
- Stakeholders
- Stand-Up Meeting
- Standard Work
- Standard Work Combination Table
- Standard Work-in-Process
- Standardization
- Standardized Work Sheets
- Standards
- Status Quo
- Stopgaps
- Stopwatch
- Sunk Costs
- Supervision
- Surveys
- SWAG
- SWOT Analysis
- Symptoms
- Taiichi Ohno
- Takt Time
- Target Condition
- Taylor, Frederick
- Team
- Theory of Constraints
- Therbligs
- Time Management
- TIMWOOD
- Tolerance Stackup
- Tooling
- Tools, Lean
- Total Productive Maintenance
- Toyoda, Eiji
- Toyoda, Kiichiro
- Toyoda, Sakichi
- Toyota
- Toyota® Production System
- TPS
- Training Plan
- Training Term
- Transportation Waste
- Tribal Knowledge
- Trust
- Two-Bin System (Kanban)
- U-Shaped Cell
- University Lean Training Programs
- Upstream Processes
- Vacations
- Value
- Value Stream
- Value Stream Analysis
- Value Stream Map
- Value-Added Work
- Variation
- Visual Control
- Visual Management
- Voice of the Customer / VOC
- Volunteers
- VSM
- Wait Time
- Walk Time
- Warehouses
- Waste
- Waste of Transportation
- Waste, Overproduction
- Water Spider / Water Strider / Mizusumashi
- Weeds Affinity Disorder
- Welch, Jack
- Whitney, Eli
- Whys, 5
- WIFM?
- WIP
- Womack, James
- Work Cell
- Work Instructions
- Work Pace Disorder
- Work Sequence
- Work Units
- Work-In-Process
- Work, Standard
- Work, Standard
- Workaround
- Workgroup
- Workstation Design
- Workstations
- X (Variable)
- Y=f(X)
- Yellow Belt
- Yield
- Yokoten
- Zero Defects
- 3P Process Overview Form
- 5 Whys Form
- 7 Ways Comparison Form
- 7 Ways Idea Generation Form
- A3 Template / A3 Report Template
- Countermeasure Sheet
- Daily Management Worksheet
- Decision Matrix Template
- FMEA Worksheet / Failure Mode and Effects Analysis Sheet
- Interruption Log
- Kaizen Audit Form
- Kaizen Charter Form
- Kaizen Checklist
- Kaizen Newspaper Form
- Kanban Card
- KPI Bowler
- Noise to Constant Sheet
- Office Process Capacity Form
- Office Process Questionnaire
- Office Process Recording Sheet
- Office Process Summary Sheet
- Pareto Chart Template
- Policy Deployment Action Plan
- Policy Deployment Bowler
- Policy Deployment Matrix / X-Matrix
- Problem Barrier Assessment Sheet
- Red Tag
- SIPOC Analysis Sheet
- Standard Work Combination Sheet / SWCS
- Standard Work Sheet
- Takt Time Calculator
- Time Observation Sheet
- Value Stream Mapping / VSM Icon Set
- Waste Recording Form
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