Charts, signals and study methods used to plan work, find causes of defects and improve a production process. A member belongs here when the cited article describes it as a planning, quality or process improvement tool. The group is one of the groupings under this field in the Technology Atlas, and each member keeps its own entry with its own cited sources and its own place in the field. Its members appear in the Browse By view for the field, so a reader can move from this group to each member entry and to the sources cited there.
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Andon (manufacturing) - Wikipedia
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In manufacturing, andon (Japanese: アンドン or あんどん or 行灯) is a system which notifies managerial, maintenance, and other workers of a quality or process problem.
Control chart, Wikipedia
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Control charts (also known as Shewhart charts, after Walter A. Shewhart, or process-behavior charts) are graphical plots used in statistical process control (SPC) to determine whether a manufacturing or business process is in a state of statistical control.
Ishikawa diagram, Wikipedia
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Common uses of the Ishikawa diagram are product design and quality defect prevention to identify potential factors causing an overall effect.
Gantt chart, Wikipedia
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A Gantt chart is a bar chart that illustrates a project schedule.
Kanban (Wikipedia)
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Kanban (Japanese: かんばん [kambaɴ] meaning signboard) is a scheduling system for lean manufacturing (also called just-in-time manufacturing, abbreviated JIT).
Poka-yoke - Wikipedia
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Poka-yoke (ポカヨケ; [poka joke]) is any mechanism in a process that helps an equipment operator avoid mistakes and defects by preventing, correcting, or drawing attention to human errors as they occur.
Statistical Process Control (Wikipedia)
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Statistical process control (SPC) or statistical quality control (SQC) is the application of statistical methods to monitor and control the quality of a production process.
Therblig, Wikipedia
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Therbligs are elemental motions used in the study of workplace motion economy.
Time and motion study, Wikipedia
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A time and motion study (or time-motion study) is a business efficiency technique combining the time study work of Frederick Winslow Taylor with the motion study work of Frank and Lillian Gilbreth (the same couple as is best known through the biographical 1950 film and book Cheaper by the Dozen).
Value-stream mapping (Wikipedia)
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Value-stream mapping, also known as material- and information-flow mapping, is a lean-management method for analyzing the current state and designing a future state for the series of events that take a product or service from the beginning of the specific process until it reaches the customer.
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