Kaizen Glossary

Important definitions and terminologies used in Kaizen

A

  • A3 report in Kaizen
  • A3 thinking in Kaizen
  • Agile in Kaizen
  • Agile manufacturing in Kaizen
  • Andon cord in Kaizen
  • Andon in Kaizen
  • Andon light in Kaizen

B

  • Benchmarking in Kaizen
  • Bottleneck in Kaizen

C

  • Catchball in Kaizen
  • Cause-and-effect diagram in Kaizen
  • Cellular manufacturing in Kaizen
  • Change management in Kaizen
  • Common Causes in Kaizen
  • Company Culture in Kaizen
  • Continuous flow in Kaizen
  • Continuous improvement in Kaizen
  • Control chart in Kaizen
  • Core Process in Kaizen
  • Cross-Functional Management in Kaizen
  • Customer, external in Kaizen
  • Customer, internal in Kaizen
  • Cycle time in Kaizen

D

  • Dantotsu in Kaizen
  • Defect density in Kaizen
  • Deming Cycle in Kaizen
  • Design of Experiments (DOE) in Kaizen
  • DMAIC in Kaizen

E

  • Eighty-twenty Rule in Kaizen
  • Error-proofing in Kaizen

F

  • Five S (5S) in Kaizen
  • Flexible Manning (Shojinka) in Kaizen
  • Flow analysis in Kaizen
  • Flow production in Kaizen
  • FMEA in Kaizen
  • Foundation of KAIZENT in Kaizen

G

  • Gemba in Kaizen
  • Genba walk in Kaizen
  • Genchi Genbutsu in Kaizen
  • Group-wide Quality Control (GWQC) in Kaizen

H

  • Hanedashi in Kaizen
  • Hansei in Kaizen
  • Heijunka box in Kaizen
  • Heijunka in Kaizen
  • Hoshin Kanri in Kaizen
  • Huddle meeting in Kaizen

I

  • Ideal state in Kaizen
  • Ishikawa diagram in Kaizen

J

  • Jidoka automation in Kaizen
  • Jidoka in Kaizen
  • JIT in Kaizen
  • Just-in-Sequence (JIS) in Kaizen
  • Just-in-Time (JIT) in Kaizen
  • Just-in-time in Kaizen

K

  • Kaikaku in Kaizen
  • Kaizen blitz in Kaizen
  • Kaizen event in Kaizen
  • Kaizen in Kaizen
  • Kaizen newspaper in Kaizen
  • Kaizen promotion office in Kaizen
  • KAIZENT Culture in Kaizen
  • KAIZENT in Kaizen
  • KAIZENT Suggestion System in Kaizen
  • Kamishibai in Kaizen
  • Kanban calculation in Kaizen
  • Kanban card in Kaizen
  • Kanban in Kaizen
  • Kanban system in Kaizen
  • Kansei engineering in Kaizen
  • Kata in Kaizen
  • Kepner-Tregoe method in Kaizen
  • Kobetsu KAIZENT in Kaizen
  • KPI in Kaizen
  • KPI tree in Kaizen

L

  • Lead Time in Kaizen
  • Lean in Kaizen
  • Line balancing in Kaizen

M

  • Machine downtime in Kaizen
  • Material handling in Kaizen
  • Mieruka in Kaizen
  • Milkrun in Kaizen
  • Mission Control (Obeya Control) in Kaizen
  • Mizusumashi in Kaizen
  • Muda in Kaizen
  • Muda-Walk in Kaizen
  • Muri in Kaizen

N

  • Non-statistical Quality Control in Kaizen
  • NVA (Non-Value Added) in Kaizen

O

  • Obeya in Kaizen
  • OEE in Kaizen
  • One-piece flow in Kaizen
  • Oobeya room in Kaizen
  • Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) in Kaizen
  • Overall Flow Efficiency (OFE) in Kaizen

P

  • Pareto chart in Kaizen
  • PDCA (Plan, Do, Check, Act) in Kaizen
  • PDCA in Kaizen
  • PDCA+. in Kaizen
  • Pitch time in Kaizen
  • Plan-do-check-act (PDCA) in Kaizen
  • Poka-yoke in Kaizen
  • Policy Deployment in Kaizen
  • Policy in Kaizen
  • Problem-solving circle in Kaizen
  • Pull system in Kaizen
  • Push system in Kaizen

Q

  • QCD in Kaizen
  • Quality at the source in Kaizen
  • Quality circles in Kaizen
  • Quality Function Deployment in Kaizen
  • Quick Changeover (QCO) in Kaizen

R

  • Radar Chart in Kaizen
  • Results-Oriented Management in Kaizen
  • Root cause analysis in Kaizen
  • Root cause identification in Kaizen

S

  • SDCA (Standardise, Do, Check, Act) in Kaizen
  • Setup time in Kaizen
  • Shojinka in Kaizen
  • Six Big Losses in Kaizen
  • Smed in Kaizen
  • Spaghetti diagram in Kaizen
  • Standard work in Kaizen
  • Statistical Quality Control (SQC) in Kaizen

T

  • Takt time in Kaizen
  • Total productive maintenance (TPM) in Kaizen
  • Total productive maintenance in Kaizen
  • Total Quality Management (TQM) in Kaizen
  • Toyota Production System (TPS) in Kaizen

U

  • Upstream Management in Kaizen

V

  • Value stream mapping in Kaizen
  • Variability Control in Kaizen
  • Visible Management in Kaizen
  • Visual management in Kaizen

W

  • Warusa-Kagen in Kaizen
  • Waste elimination in Kaizen
  • Water-Spider (Mizusumashi) in Kaizen

Y

  • Yokoten in Kaizen

Others

  • 3M (Muri, Mura, Muda) in Kaizen
  • 5 Why in Kaizen
  • 5S in Kaizen
  • 8D in Kaizen
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