Glossary of recruitment and lean management

5S:

HOSHIN:

To transform with apluridisciplinary team an environment to improve its performance (work in cells)within a short time.

Kanban:

Visual management of flows to reduce stocks.

Mudas:

Tasks with no added value.

PDCA:

Plan Do Check Action or plan, initiate actions, control the effectiveness of actions, refine and restart the process.

QRQC:

Quick Response Quality Control or find root causes of Dysfonctionnements Quality.

QRM:

Quick Response Manufacturing.Reduction of the calendar time for placing a product on the market or a product in “series Life”.

QVT:

Quality of life at work.

SMED:

Single Minute Exchange of Die or reduction of time to change a Tools (target less than 10 minutes).

TPM:

Total Productive maintenance or development of preventive maintenance.

VSM:

Value Stream Mapping.Cartographyfor a product of material flow and the information flow

VUCA:

Volatile market, uncertain, complex and ambiguous.