A
1 term
Autonomation
See : Jidoka.
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C
1 term
Chief Engineer
Term used at Toyota for the manager with full responsibility for the development and success of a product line; formerly known by the Japanese term shusa.
See : Value Stream Manager.
D
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Design-in
Collaboration between customer and supplier to design a component and its production process.
See : Resident Engineer.
L
1 term
Lean Product and Process Development
A business system focused on eliminating waste in product and process development through the generation and application of useful knowledge.
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P
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Production Preparation Process
A disciplined method for designing a lean production process for a new product, or for fundamentally redesigning the production process for an existing product when the product or demand changes substantially. It may also be called Lean Process Development.
See: Kaizen, Kaizen Workshop.
S
2 terms
Set-Based Concurrent Engineering
An approach to designing products and services in which developers consider sets of ideas rather than a single idea.
See : Trade-off curves.
Shusa
A project leader, like the chief engineer in Toyota's product development system.
See: Chief Engineer.
T
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Target Cost
The development and production cost that a product cannot exceed if the customer is to be satisfied with the product's value and the manufacturer is to obtain an acceptable return on its investment.
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Three Ps (3P)
See: Production Preparation Process.
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Trade-off Curves
Describes, in a simple and visual way, the performance limits that are possible with a given design approach.
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U
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Usable Knowledge
The value created by lean product development processes. Because almost all defective designs result from not having the right knowledge in the right place at the right time, lean companies generally spend proportionally more development time creating and capturing knowledge, and less creating hardware.
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