TPS dictionary

multi Skilled Operator In order to create continuous flow and improve true efficiency, an operator must  be  able to per...

Multimachine Handling The work practice of assigning operators to operate more than one machine in a process village lay...

mizusumashi A water spider or ‘mizusumashi‘ in Japanese (see our listing of Japanese Lean terms), is a person who has a ...

Apparent Efficiency Apparent Efficiency means increasing production output with no change in the number of operaiors or ...

Kaizen is the practice of continuous improvement. Kaizen was originally introduced to the West by Masaaki Imai in his bo...

just-in-time Just in time means a system of production that makes and delivers what is need, just when it is needed ,and...

job instruction Sheet The job instruction sheet is used to train new operations. It lists the steps of the job, detailin...

jidoka What is Jidoka? Jidoka means providing machines and operators  the ability to detect when an abnomal situation ha...

internal setup work internal setup work can done be only when a machine is stopped. The Basic steps in Setup Reduction. ...

kanban What is Kanban? A kanban is a signaling device that gives authorization and instruction for the production or wit...