Lean Manufacturing Terms and Concepts

Lean manufacturing terms and Lean manufacturing concepts , the most common lean terms are explained in more detail below. The concepts presented below can be applied in both manufacturing and service industry operations and are used in lean production systems and in lean training by organizations today.

A	L	T
-ABC warehousing		-Takt time
	-Lean objectives and goals	-Total Quality management (TQM)
B	-Lean Manufacturing
-Bill of materials (BOM)	-Lean office	U
-Process Bottleneck	-Lean audit	-Uptime
	-Lean resources
C
-Capacity: Production Capacity	M	V
-Company culture	-Mass Customization	-Value Added
-Cycle time	-(MRP) Materials Requirement Planning	-Value stream
-Capacity utilization		-Value stream mapping

E	O	W
-Economic order quantity (EOQ)	-One point lesson	-Waste(Seven types of waste)
-Enterprise resource planning (ERP)		-Work in progress (WIP)
-Error proofing
	P
	-Poka-yoke	Y
F	-Production Planning	-Yield Management
-FIFO inventory system	-Pull System

J
-Just in time	Q
	-Quality at the source
K
-Kaizen
-Kanban	S
-Kanban Systems	-5S
-Kanban Squares	-Safety stock
-Kanban Markers	-Single minute exchange of die (SMED)
-Kanban Containers	-Standardized work
	-Supply chain
	-Standard operating procedure (SOP)

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