Selecting the Right Manufacturing Improvement Tools: What Tool? When?

Appendix C: Listing of Commonly Used Improvement Tools and Terms

Overview

So many tools, so little time

In previous chapters several of the more common and popular improvement tools and strategies were reviewed. It was also indicated that there are likely 100 or more of these tools available, so clearly not all of them were covered. Some of those not reviewed, while not as popular or common as those we've considered, deserve some mention. Those are discussed below. If your favorite tool has been omitted, that's not to say that it's not useful or important, but rather that it may not be known to the author. A listing of these additional tools is provided in Table C-1 and comes from SIRF-Roundtables, a networking organization in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.1 These include many of those discussed in previous chapters.

Table C-1: Listing of Improvement Tools
  1. ABC Inventory Control

  2. Activity-Based Costing (or Accounting)

  3. Aggregate Planning

  4. Agile and Quick Response

  5. Andon

  6. Automation

  7. Benchmarking

  8. Capacity Planning

  9. Capability Index

  10. Cellular Manufacturing

  11. Concurrent Engineering

  12. Design for Manufacturing and Assembly

  13. Design for Maintenance

  14. Design of Experiments

  15. Enterprise Resource Planning

  16. Factory Layout

  17. Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA)

  18. High Performance Teams

  19. Inventory Reduction

  20. Job Design

  21. Just in Time

  22. Kaizen

  23. Kanban

  24. Leadership/Supervisor Development

  25. Lean Manufacturing

  26. Machine Efficiency

  27. Nationally Accredited Training

  28. Networking

  29. New Equipment

  30. Operator Maintenance

  31. Open Book Management

  32. Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)

  33. People Development

  34. Planned Maintenance

  35. Poka Yoke

  36. Postponement

  37. Predictive Maintenance (PdM)

  38. Project Management

  39. Quality Function Deployment (QFD)

  40. Quality System and Accreditation

  41. Re-Engineering

  42. Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM)

  43. Risk Analysis

  44. Root Cause Analysis (RCA)

  45. Sales and Operations Planning

  46. Setup Reduction

  47. Seven...

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