Kaizen:
The
Japanese term for improvement; continuing improvement involving everyone:
managers and workers. In manufacturing, kaizen relates to finding and eliminating
waste in machinery, labour, or production methods. Also see: Continuous Process
Improvement
Kaizen
Blitz: A
rapid improvement of a limited process area, for example, a production cell.
Part of the improvement team consists of workers in that area. The objectives
are to use innovative thinking to eliminate non- value-added work and to immediately
implement the changes within a week or less. Ownership of the improvement
by the area work team and the development of the team's problem-solving skills
are additional benefits.
Key
Performance Indicator (KPI): A
measure which is of strategic importance to a company or department. For example,
a supply chain flexibility metric is Supplier On-time Delivery Performance
which indicates the percentage of orders that are fulfilled on or before the
original requested date. Also see: Scorecard
Keyboard:
An
arrangement of typing and function keys laid out in a specified manner used
for entering data.
Kit:
The components of a product that have been pulled from stock and prepared
for production or shipping.
Kitting:
Process by which individual items are grouped or packaged together
to create a special, single item.
kph:
kilometres
per hour
KPI:
See
Key Performance Indicator
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