A key component of Chaku-Chaku (or Chaku-Chaku Lines), Hanedashi are devices that unload a part from a machine once the cycle is complete so that an operator may simply walk from machine to machine, taking the ejected part from one machine and loading it into the next without having to wait.
A Japanese term for self reflection. It refers to ones admittance of making mistakes and their pledge to improve. Can be translated into “Learning from ones own mistakes.”
Hard Savings are defined as retaining cash. If you are able to do the same amount of business with less employees (cost savings) or handle more business without adding people (cost avoidance), these are referred to as Hard Savings.
See also Soft Savings
Comes from studies in early industrialization where operators who knew their process performance was being measured and exercised more care in the execution of the process than what normally would be done.
A method of leveling production that involves averaging the volume and sequence of different model types in a mixed-model production line. Heijunka makes Just-In-Time production possible.
The notion that much of the endeavor of the company that is not quality minded is directed inadvertently to creating waste and performing wasteful tasks. The hidden factory is the extra useful, positive output that would theoretically be possible if the energy directed at creating waste were released and directed instead at making good quality items.
Often used to reveal any variations a process may contain, Histograms are a problem solving tool that display data graphically. It is a historical document of real activities.
Homogeneity of Variance is a test used to determine if the variances of two or more samples are different.
When tasks are assigned in such a way that the focus is on maximizing a certain skill set, or use of certain types of equipment instead of focusing on workflow.
A method of policy deployment and strategic decision making that aligns and focuses an organization on a few, vital breakthrough improvements. This is a self-correcting process, that encourages organizational learning and process improvement as the objectives and the means to achieve the objectives are cascaded down through the entire organization.
See also Policy Deployment
