CPIM 10
Continuous improvement - answer The act of making incremental, regular
improvements and upgrades to a process or product in the search for excellence.
Continuous Process Improvement (CPI) - answer Never-ending effort to expose and
eliminate root causes of problems, small-step improvement as opposed to big-step
improvement.
employee involvement - answer The concept of using the experience, creative, energy,
and intelligence of all employees by treating them with respect, keeping them informed
and including them and their ideas in decision making processes appropriate to their
areas of expertise.
Employee Empowerment - answer The practice of giving non-managerial employees
the responsibility and the power to make decisions regarding their jobs or tasks. It is
associated with the practice of transfer of managerial responsibility to the employee.
Empowerment allows the employee to take on responsibility for tasks normally
associated with staff specialists. Examples include allowing the employee to make
scheduling, quality, process design, or purchasing decisions.
Supplier Partnerships - answerThe establishment of a working relationship with a
supplier organization whereby two organizations act as one.
hoshin - answerA Japanese word meaning statement of objectives.
Hoshin Planning - answerBreakthrough planning. A Japanese strategic planning
process in which a company develops up to four vision statements that indicate where
the company should be in the next five years. Company goals and work plans are
developed based on the vision statements. Periodic audits are then conducted to
monitor progress.
Plan-Do-Check-Action (PDCA) - answer4-step process for quality improvement; Step 1
- improvement plan is developed, step 2 - plan is carried out, step 3 - effects of plan are
observed, step 4 - results are studied
Hansei - answerA Japanese word meaning reflection.
Kaizen - answerJapanese term for continuous improvement
, Kaizen Event - answerA time boxed set of activity carried out by the cell team during the
week of cell implementation. The Kaizen event is an implementation arm of a lean
manufacturing program.
Kaizen Blitz - answerA rapid improvement of a limited process area, for example, a
production cell. Part of the improvement team consists of workers in that area. The
objectives are to use innovative thinking to eliminate non-value-added work and to
immediately implement the changes within a week or less. Ownership of the
improvement by the area work team and the development of the team's problem-solving
skills are additional benefits.
Jishuken - answerA Japanese word meaning voluntary study groups.
Value Stream - answerThe processes of creating, producing, and delivering a good or
service to the market. For a good, the value stream encompasses the raw material
supplier, the manufacture and assembly of the good, and the distribution network. For a
service, the value stream consists of suppliers, support personnel and technology, the
service "producer," and the distribution channel. The value stream may be controlled by
a single business or a network of several businesses.
Value Stream Mapping - answerA lean production tool to visually understand the flow of
materials from supplier to customer that includes the current process and flow as well
as the value-added and non-value-added time of all the process steps. Used to lead to
reduction of waste, decrease flow time, and make the process flow more efficient and
effective.
Poka-yoke - answermistake-proofing techniques, such as manufacturing or setup
activity, designed in a way to prevent an error from resulting in a product defect.
5S - answerfive terms beginning with "S" used to create a workplace suitable for lean
production: sort, simplify, scrub, standardize, and sustain.
Throughput accounting - answerA management accounting method based on the belief
that because every system has a constraint that limits global performance, the most
effective way to evaluate the impact that any proposed action will have on the system
as a whole is to look at the expected changes in the global measures of throughput,
inventory, and operating expense.
Theory of Constraints Accounting - answerCost & managerial accounting system that
accumulates costs and revenues into 3 areas - thruput, inventory, and operating
expense; provides a simplified and more accurate form of direct costing that subtracts
variable costs; focus it to exploit constraint to make more $ for firm
operating expense - answerall the money a system spends to turn inventory into
throughput
Continuous improvement - answer The act of making incremental, regular
improvements and upgrades to a process or product in the search for excellence.
Continuous Process Improvement (CPI) - answer Never-ending effort to expose and
eliminate root causes of problems, small-step improvement as opposed to big-step
improvement.
employee involvement - answer The concept of using the experience, creative, energy,
and intelligence of all employees by treating them with respect, keeping them informed
and including them and their ideas in decision making processes appropriate to their
areas of expertise.
Employee Empowerment - answer The practice of giving non-managerial employees
the responsibility and the power to make decisions regarding their jobs or tasks. It is
associated with the practice of transfer of managerial responsibility to the employee.
Empowerment allows the employee to take on responsibility for tasks normally
associated with staff specialists. Examples include allowing the employee to make
scheduling, quality, process design, or purchasing decisions.
Supplier Partnerships - answerThe establishment of a working relationship with a
supplier organization whereby two organizations act as one.
hoshin - answerA Japanese word meaning statement of objectives.
Hoshin Planning - answerBreakthrough planning. A Japanese strategic planning
process in which a company develops up to four vision statements that indicate where
the company should be in the next five years. Company goals and work plans are
developed based on the vision statements. Periodic audits are then conducted to
monitor progress.
Plan-Do-Check-Action (PDCA) - answer4-step process for quality improvement; Step 1
- improvement plan is developed, step 2 - plan is carried out, step 3 - effects of plan are
observed, step 4 - results are studied
Hansei - answerA Japanese word meaning reflection.
Kaizen - answerJapanese term for continuous improvement
, Kaizen Event - answerA time boxed set of activity carried out by the cell team during the
week of cell implementation. The Kaizen event is an implementation arm of a lean
manufacturing program.
Kaizen Blitz - answerA rapid improvement of a limited process area, for example, a
production cell. Part of the improvement team consists of workers in that area. The
objectives are to use innovative thinking to eliminate non-value-added work and to
immediately implement the changes within a week or less. Ownership of the
improvement by the area work team and the development of the team's problem-solving
skills are additional benefits.
Jishuken - answerA Japanese word meaning voluntary study groups.
Value Stream - answerThe processes of creating, producing, and delivering a good or
service to the market. For a good, the value stream encompasses the raw material
supplier, the manufacture and assembly of the good, and the distribution network. For a
service, the value stream consists of suppliers, support personnel and technology, the
service "producer," and the distribution channel. The value stream may be controlled by
a single business or a network of several businesses.
Value Stream Mapping - answerA lean production tool to visually understand the flow of
materials from supplier to customer that includes the current process and flow as well
as the value-added and non-value-added time of all the process steps. Used to lead to
reduction of waste, decrease flow time, and make the process flow more efficient and
effective.
Poka-yoke - answermistake-proofing techniques, such as manufacturing or setup
activity, designed in a way to prevent an error from resulting in a product defect.
5S - answerfive terms beginning with "S" used to create a workplace suitable for lean
production: sort, simplify, scrub, standardize, and sustain.
Throughput accounting - answerA management accounting method based on the belief
that because every system has a constraint that limits global performance, the most
effective way to evaluate the impact that any proposed action will have on the system
as a whole is to look at the expected changes in the global measures of throughput,
inventory, and operating expense.
Theory of Constraints Accounting - answerCost & managerial accounting system that
accumulates costs and revenues into 3 areas - thruput, inventory, and operating
expense; provides a simplified and more accurate form of direct costing that subtracts
variable costs; focus it to exploit constraint to make more $ for firm
operating expense - answerall the money a system spends to turn inventory into
throughput
