Operations & Process management terms and concepts

Operations terms and Process management concepts , the most common operations terms are explained in more detail below. The concepts presented below can be applied in operations, operations management, manufacturing, engineering management and service/hospitality industry operations and are useful in setting lean production systems and managing operations on a daily basis.

A	K	Q
-ABC warehousing	-Kaizen	-Quality audit
	-Kaizen Board
	-Kanban	R
B	-Kanban Systems	-Root cause analysis
-Bill of materials (BOM)	-Kanban Squares
-Process Bottleneck	-Kanban Markers	S
-Brainstorming	-Kanban Containers	-Shadow Boards
		-Safety stock
C	L	-Single minute exchange of die (SMED)
-Capacity: Production Capacity	-Lean Manufacturing	-SMART goals
-Company culture	-Lean office	-Supply chain
-Cycle time	-Labour Productivity	-Standard operating procedure (SOP)
-Capacity utilization		-Stock outs
-Competitive advantage		-Start up checklist
-Cost curve		-Swot analysis
-Capital Expenditure		-Start up checklist template
	M
E	-Mass Customization
-Economic order quantity (EOQ)	-(MRP) Materials Requirement Planning	T
-Enterprise resource planning (ERP)		-Takt time
		-Total Quality management (TQM)
	O	-Toll Production
F	-One point lesson
-FIFO inventory system		U
-Fishbone Diagram	P	-Uptime
-Fishbone diagram example	-Process engineer
-FMEA	-Production Planning	V
-FMEA steps	-Pull System	-Value Added
	-Production target	-Value stream
G	-Pareto principle	-Value stream mapping
-Goal setting	-Pareto chart
	-Process checklist	W
I	-Process checklist template	-5 Whys
-Industrial Engineer	-Potential risk	-Work in progress (WIP)
-Import Parity	-PDCA Cycle
	-Process flow chart
J	-Process flow chart symbols	Y
-Just in time	-Process analysis	-Yield Management

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