Kaizen Glossary

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