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Isao Kato Interview on Shigeo Shingo's Influence on TPS
Isao Kato believed that people development cannot be separated from production system development. During his career at Toyota he developed training materials under the direction…
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Lean Warehousing and Distribution Operations
Improve a distribution center's efficiency, quality, safety, and space utilization.
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Andon
Andon is a visual management tool that highlights the status of operations in an area at a single glance and that signals whenever an abnormality…
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Inventory Turns
A measure of how quickly materials are moving through a facility or through an entire value stream, calculated by dividing some measure of cost of…
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Operation Availabilty versus Operating Rate
Operational availability is the fraction of time a machine functions properly when needed. (Also called operable rate.) The operating rate is the amount of time…
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