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Business Process Redesign (BPR)dramatically simplifies business processes, eliminating waste, reducing
cycle time and improving quality |
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Cycle Time Reductionstrives to
reduce the total time required to perform a set of tasks. It typically uses lean
business practices found in BPR, TOC and TPS. |
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Design For Assembly (DFA)strives for
radical simplification of a product design and corresponding manufacturing
processes, leading to significant cost reduction. |
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Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)is a risk
management approach used to assess and improve the quality, reliability,
durability and safety of products and/or processes. |
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Kaizen Breakthrough Eventsare approaches
for rapid transformation of a product design, business process or manufacturing
process, based on the principles of the Toyota Production System. In most cases
transformation occurs in a week. |
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Lean Business Practicesis a
manufacturing approach which strives for the total elimination of waste. |
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Policy Deploymentis an approach
for planning and executing breakthrough business results. It combines some of
the best aspects of Vision Development, Strategic Planning, Management by
Objectives and Visual Management. |
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Project Managementis an approach
for planning and executing major projects to enable them to be completed on
time, in budget and within scope. |
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Quality Function Deployment (QFD)helps to ensure
that the "voice of the customer" is brought into the product development
process, process development, manufacturing and reflected back into the
marketplace. |
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Quality Operating Systems (QOS)track quality
of products or processes and provides an orderly and repeatable means to
systematically improve. |
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Reliability Improvementseeks to
improve product reliability through understanding failure causes, and either
eliminates them or neutralizes their effect. |
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Robust Engineering (RE)is an approach
which optimizes the functional performance of elements products or processes which minimizes the
impact of uncontrollable factors, providing superior performance in a wide range of conditions. |
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Root Cause Analysis (RCA)solves problems
by tracing a series of fact and data based clues to get to the basic cause,
solving the problem in a measurable way. |
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Six Sigmais an approach for empowering
large numbers of employees to make significant business improvements using a repeatable recipe based
on statistical methods |
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Statistical Process Control (SPC)is an approach
for monitoring and controlling a process based on statistical methods, using
variation inherent in the process to signal when action is needed. |
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Strategic Planningis an approach
to mapping a course of action from the present to a desired future state and a
way that is achievable and manageable. |
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Systems Thinking (ST)is an
improvement approach that looks for systemic causes, seeking to change the way
the system drives behavior. |
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Taguchi Methodsseeks to make
product or processes more robust, (less sensitive to variation), resulting in
more stable results. |
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Theory of Constraints (TOC)seeks to
increase throughput by focusing organizational resources on identification,
removal or management of constraints which limit results. |
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Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ)seeks to solve
apparently impossible problems by identifying the underlying conflict, or
contradiction and attacking it. |
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Toyota Production System (TPS)is a
manufacturing approach which strives for the total elimination of waste. |
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Value
Analysis / Value Engineering (VAVE)strives for
radical improvement in product value through greatly increasing functionality or
decreasing cost. |
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Variability Reductionis
a combination of
approaches which reduce variability in products and processes, improving
performance and yield, while reducing cost. |
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Vision Developmentseeks to
clearly articulate a compelling future state to which the organization may
be steered. This is often a starting point for Strategic Planning or Policy
Deployment. |
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Visual Managementorganizes the
physical work environment and work approaches in a manner that enables
management at a glance.
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