Back

T Terms

Takt time is the required pace of production to meet customer demand. It is calculated by dividing the working time available, generally for that shift, by the customer demand during that time period.

Target Condition

When most people think of goal setting, KPIs, or improvement metrics in general, they tend to focus on targets.

Taylor, Frederick

Frederick Winslow Taylor (March 20, 1856 – March 21, 1915) is most well known for his work on time and motion studies and scientific management.

Team

In its purest form, the definition of a team is “a group of people associated with each other for some form of joint action or activity.”

Theory of Constraints

The “Theory of Constraints” is the management philosophy of Eliyahu M. Goldratt. He introduced it in his 1984 book, The Goal.

Therbligs

In the early 1900’s, Frank and Lillian Gilbreth refined a system of analyzing work to improve processes. They focused on identifying the core “motion cycles” that combined to form work activities.

Time Management

Time management is the act of consciously planning out how one spends the hours and minutes of a day.

TIMWOOD

TIMWOOD is a mnemonic device used to help people remember the different forms of waste associated with Lean. These seven wastes are widely accredited to Taiichi Ohno.

Tolerance Stack Up

Tolerances allow a slight variation in the final product of a product. Sometimes, though, if all of the variation ends up in one direction, the final product can fail.

Tolerance Stackup

Tolerance stackup is the cumulative effect of the components of a product being skewed towards the same side of the specification limits.

Tooling

Tooling is a generic term for any of the variety of equipment associated with production machines, especially ones that do fabrication.

Tools, Lean

See: Lean Tools

Total Productive Maintenance

Total Productive Maintenance keeps machines operational in a way that supports production processes.

Toyoda, Eiji

Eiji Toyoda (Sept 12, 1913 – September 17, 2013) was, at the time of his tenure, the longest serving president of Toyota.

Toyoda, Kiichiro

Kiichiro Toyoda (June 11, 1894 - March 27, 1952) was the son of Sakichi Toyoda, the founder of Toyoda Loom Works.

Toyoda, Sakichi

Sakichi Toyoda (February 14, 1867 – October 30, 1930) was the founder of Toyoda, though originally, it was not an automobile manufacturer. It was called the Toyoda Loom Works.

Toyota

Toyota is ground zero for modern Lean. It is where all of the historical advances in manufacturing technology and operational leadership and supply chain management came together.