Leanspeak: The Productivity Business Improvement Dictionary
The one-stop, concise dictionary to business lingo.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Leanspeak: The Productivity Business Improvement Dictionary
H: Hancho Hyperchange
hancho
a Japanese term meaning group leader. (A kacho is a section manager and a bucho is a department manager. A shusa is a chairman of an investigation committee or the president of a board of examiners.
hanedashi
a device designed to automatically extract/eject the finished work piece from the machine so that the next part can be loaded. Operators then only need to pick up the ejected pieces and load. A component of chaku-chaku.
hard data
information that is quantitative, historical, and objective, usually the result of long and exhaustive studies having a numerical base. See soft data.
hazard and operability (HAZOP) study
an analysis, conducted by a team of people with varying backgrounds and expertise, that focuses on specific parts of a process, called nodes, to identify hazards and operability problems. For each node, process parameters, intentions (using accompanying guidewords), and deviations are identified. Next, consequences of deviations are examined and safeguards and other appropriate recommendations are suggested. Hazards are defined as operations that could cause the release of toxic, flammable, or explosive chemicals; or any other action that could result in injury to personnel. An operability problem is any operation within the design envelope that could result in a viloation of environmental, health, or saftey regulations and/or cause a shutdown that would negatively impact profitablity. This analysis can be applied to new or existing processes in batch or continuous flow plants.
HAZOP
See hazard and operability study.
heijunka
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