The Arda Glossary

Lean, defined.

222 terms from the shop floor - TPS foundations, pull and flow, visual management, and every tool, metric, and ritual that makes a lean operation actually run.

222 terms·10 categories·Updated Monthly
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TPS Foundations
13
The 8 Wastes
21
Visual Management
24
Pull and Flow
28
Process Improvement Tools
33
Quality at Source
19
Maintenance and Reliability
18
Continuous Improvement Culture
24
Lean Leadership and People
21
Lean Metrics and Measurement
21
02 / Waste

The 8 Wastes

Every form of muda, named and defined. If you can see them, you can remove them - and most of what looks like work isn't.

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03 / See it

Visual Management

The signals, signs, and boards that make the state of the operation legible at a glance - to anyone walking the floor.

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04 / Movement

Pull and Flow

The mechanics of moving material and work through an operation - triggered by downstream demand, not upstream forecasts.

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05 / Tools

Process Improvement Tools

The working kit - mapping techniques, problem-solving frameworks, and structured methods that turn observation into improvement.

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06 / Quality

Quality at Source

Catching the defect where it's made - instead of inspecting it at the end. The mechanisms that build quality into the process itself.

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07 / Reliability

Maintenance and Reliability

Keeping the equipment running so the flow doesn't stop - the practices that turn breakdowns from default into exception.

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08 / Culture

Continuous Improvement Culture

The habits, rituals, and behaviors that turn lean from a project into an operating system - practiced every shift, by everyone.

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09 / People

Lean Leadership and People

How lean operations develop the operators, team leaders, and managers who make the system work - and the leadership behaviors that sustain it.

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10 / Numbers

Lean Metrics and Measurement

The numbers that tell you whether lean is actually working - operational, financial, and behavioral indicators that resist gaming.

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