Lean vocabulary: the dictionary for your organization's performance

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Five S

Five related terms, all beginning with the letter S, that describe workplace practices useful for visual management and lean production. The five Japanese terms are: Seiri: Separate needed items from unneeded ones - tools, parts, materials, documents - and discard the latter.
Seiton: Arrange what remains, defining a place for everything and putting everything in its place.
Seiso: Cleaning.
Seiketsu: Standardization resulting from good performance in the first three Ss.
Shitsu

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Red Tagging

Tagging unnecessary items in order to remove them from a production area during a 5S exercise.

See : 5S.

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Shingo, Shigeo (1909-1990)

An engineer and consultant whose books and teachings were key contributions to the dissemination of the Toyota Production System.

See: Setup Reduction, Single-Minute Exchange of Die - SMED.

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Spaghetti Diagram

A diagram of the path a product takes as it moves along a value stream. It is so called because, in mass production, the route of products often looks like a plate of spaghetti.

See : Material Flow.

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