Lean Glossary
Leader Huddle Meetings are regular (often daily) meeting with direct reports. The Huddle Meetings are conducted in front of the Process Performance Boards in order
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Process Performance Boards are displays that enable leaders to visually track People, Quality, Delivery, Cost and Process Improvement. They enable leaders to answer questions such
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Actions, behaviors and tools that leaders use to build and sustain a Lean Culture. Leader Standard Work Training Single Module For a better understanding of
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Shadow Boards are visual methods of storing tools or materials and are always placed where the work is being done. Each shadow board consists of
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Work Balancing or Line Balancing involves balancing the work rate between sub-processes in order to efficiently match customer demand or takt time. The idea is
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What is Work Cell Design? Work Cell Design is a method of organizing physical operations by process flow as opposed to function in order to
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Water beetle or water spider is a term used to describe the person responsible for maintaining correct inventories on the production line so that line
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Visual Management is the practice of making the workplace visually easy to work in. This includes making it easy to identify units and materials, updating
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Waiting happens internally when one colleague is idle because they are unable to proceed with a process step until another colleague or department provides the
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Wait time is a measure of the time a unit or service is idle within a process. Waiting is considered the most common of the
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