A visual control device in a production area, typically a lighted overhead display, giving the current status of the production system and alerting team members to emerging problems.

Transferring human intelligence to automated machinery so machines are able to detect the production of a single defective part and immediately stop themselves while asking for help.

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A method of conducting single-piece flow in which the operators proceeds from machine to machine, taking the part from the previous operation and loading it in the next machine, then taking the part j [..]

When a piece of equipment has to stop producing in order to be fitted for producing a different item. For example, the installation of a different processing tool in a metal working machine, a differe [..]

Means that items are produced and moved from one processing step to the next one piece-at-a-time. Each process makes only the one piece that the next process needs, and the transfer batch size is one. [..]

How frequently an item or product actually is completed by a process, as timed by direct observation. Also, the time it takes an operator to go through all of his or her work elements before repeating [..]

Refers to the "every-product-every interval," which is a measure of production batch size. For example, if a machine is able to change over and produce the required quantity of all t [..]

Stands for "first in, first out," which means that material produced by one process is used up in the same order by the next process. FIFO is one way to regulate a queue between two [..]