| activity-based costing | allocation of overhead to specific jobs based on their percentage of activities.
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| andon | a system of lights used at each work station to signal problems or slowdowns.
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| autonomation | automatic detection of defects during production.
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| housekeeping | maintaining a workplace that is clean and free of unnecessary materials.
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| jikoda | Japanese term for the automatic detection of defects during production.
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| JIT II | allowing vendors to manage some aspects of buying their products for the customer.
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| just-in-time system | repetitive production system in which processing and movement of materials and goods occur just as they needed, usually in small batches.
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| kanban | a card or other device that communicates demand for work or materials to be forwarded from the preceding station.
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| manufacturing cell | a production center which contains the machines and tools needed to process
families of parts that have similar processing requirements.
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| poka-yoke | fail-safe tools and methods designed to prevent mistakes from occurring.
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| preventive maintenance | emphasizes keeping equipment in good working order and replacing parts which have a tendency to fail before they actually fail.
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| pull system | a workstation pulls output from the preceding station as it is needed.
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| push system | work is pushed to the next station as it is completed..
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