Lean six sigma green belt

What is first in, first out (FIFO)?

Material produced by one process is used in the same order by the next process. A FIFO queue is filled by the supplying process and emptied by the customer process.

What is flow?

The progressive achievement of tasks along the value stream so a product proceeds from design to launch, order to delivery and raw to finished materials in the hands of the customer with no stoppages, scrap or backflows.

What is information flow?

The task of disseminating information for taking a specific product from order entry through detailed scheduling to delivery.

What is internal setup?

Die setup procedures that must be performed while a machine is stopped also known as inner exchange of die.

What is inventory?

The money invested in purchasing things an organization intends to sell.

What is just-in-time (JIT) manufacturing?

An optimal material requirement planning system for a manufacturing process in which there is little or no manufacturing material inventory on hand at the manufacturing site and little or no incoming inspection.

What is kaizen?

A Japanese term meaning gradual unending improvement by doing little things better and setting and achieving increasingly higher standards.

What is lead time?

The total time a customer must wait to receive a product after placing an order.

What is lean manufacturing/production?

An initiative focused on eliminating all waste in manufacturing processes. Principles include zero waiting, zero inventory, pull scheduling, small batch sizes, line balancing and shorter process times.

What is lean?

Producing the maximum sellable products or services at the lowest operational cost while optimizing inventory levels.

What is level loading?

A technique for balancing production throughput over time.

What is material handling?

Methods, equipment and systems for moving materials between processes and transferring finished parts.

What is muda?

The Japanese word for waste, any activity that consumes resources but creates no value.

What is one-piece flow?

Each product goes through each process step one at a time, without interruption.

What is one-touch exchange of dies?

Reducing die setup changeover to a single step.

What is overall equipment effectiveness (OEE)?

The product of a machine's availability, performance efficiency and first pass yield.

What is overprocessing?

Poor tool and product design resulting in waste, one of the eight wastes.

What is overproduction?

Producing ahead of demand, one of the eight wastes.

What is PDCA (plan-do-check-act)?

A four-step management method for continuous improvement.

What is point of use storage?

Storing items where they will be used.