an accounting system that assigns costs to products based on the amount of resources used to design, order or make a product. Andon board:

the process of evenly distributing both the quantity and variety of work across available work time, avoiding overburden and underuse of resources. This eliminates bottlenecks and downtime, which tran [..]

a Japanese word that means "load-load." It is a method of conducting single-piece flow in which the operator proceeds from machine to machine, taking a part from the previous operati [..]

a concept where items are processed and moved directly from one processing step to the next, one piece at a time. Also referred to as "one piece flow" and "single piece flow [..]

a process used to prevent errors from occurring or to immediately point out a defect as it occurs. If defects don’t get passed down an assembly line, throughput and quality improve. See "poka [..]

a series of special assembly lines that allow assemblers to perform preassembly tasks off the main production line. Performing certain processes off the main production line means fewer parts in the m [..]

a system for producing and delivering the right items at the right time in the right amounts. The key elements of just in time are flow, pull, standard work and takt time. Kaizen:

a Japanese word that means "card" or "visible record." It refers to a small card attached to boxes of parts that regulates pull by signaling upstream production and [..]

the total time a customer must wait to receive a product after placing an order. Lean manufacturing:

any design, scheduling or production technology with scale requirements necessitating that designs, orders and products be brought to the machine to wait in queue for processing. The opposite of a rig [..]