Leanspeak: The Productivity Business Improvement Dictionary
The one-stop, concise dictionary to business lingo.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Leanspeak: The Productivity Business Improvement Dictionary
J: Jidoka Just-in-Time Information
jidoka
Japanese term meaning automation with a human touch. See autonomation.
Johari s window
a model used in training programs for giving and soliciting feedback, developed by psychologists Joseph Luft and Harry Ingham. Its four categories are what I know about myself, what I don t know about myself, what others know about me, and what others don t know about me. In the four-square grid, the window pane in which what I know about myself and what others know about me intersect is named the Arena. What I don t know about myself but what others know about me constitutes my Blind Spot. What they don t know about me but what I know about myself comprises my Fa ade. What others don t know about me and what I don t know about myself comprises the Unknown. (The window is sometimes referred to as Joharry s window.) Also modified for business practices as window analysis. See business process tools for links to other tools.
joint line
a production line that processes and assembles parts for more than one product. Contrast with dedicated line.
junjo-biki
Japanese term meaning a sequenced withdrawal system. See kanban.
just-in-time
the first of the two major pillars of the Toyota Production System (the second being autonomation), just-in-time is a system for producing and delivering the right items to the right place at the right time in the right amounts, eliminating buffer inventories. This technique approaches just-on-time when upstream activities occur...
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