Standardized work is one of the most powerful but least used lean tools. By documenting the current best practice‚ standardized work forms the baseline for kaizen or continuous improvement. As the standard is improved‚ the new standard becomes the baseline for further improvements‚ and so on. Improving standardized work is a never-ending process. Basically‚ standardized work consists of three elements: • Takt time‚ which is the rate at which products must be made in a process to meet customer
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considered that they had money without doing any actual work‚ offered goods that could not be acquired through any other means. The early Tokugawa period‚ in spite of it’s late counterpart‚ was characterized by economical growth which leaded to an economical surplus. This economical surplus was transformed in money and with it were brought non-food items. Bob Tadashi Wakayashi said that exactly this fact was the problem of the late Tokugawa period. There was a limit for the consumption
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must have been a new market for less-expensive pieces like portraits and landscapes. This would open the door to lesser artists who would work for less money and create art on a much less grandiose scale. Of course‚ many lesser works have been lost since they were not worthy of preservation in a museum. The invention of the printing press in the late fifteenth century made reproducible art possible. An artist could now easily make multiple copies of an engraving and sell copies to multiple
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University of Phoenix Material Goal Setting Worksheet Review this week’s resources and readings (for example SMART criteria‚ and the Career Plan Building Activities). Respond to the following in 75 to 150 words each: 1. Describe one academic goal that you have created using the SMART criteria. How do SMART criteria contribute to your academic goals I have been having a hard time with completing my assignments in a timely manner so my academic goal is to complete my assignments
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University of Phoenix Material Development in Adolescence and Late Adulthood Worksheet Use the Learn Psychology text‚ the University Library‚ and/or other resources to answer the following questions. Your response to each question should contain at least 150 words. .1 Puberty can be a difficult time for adolescents. What are some of the challenges they face? Puberty is the one to three-year process of hormonal and physical changes that causes the young person to reach sexual maturity
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COLLABORATIVE WORK SKILLS: RUBRIC FOR GROUP WORK Name of Group Member Evaluated: ____________________ CATEGORY SCORE OF 4 SCORE OF 3 SCORE 0F 2 SCORE OF 1 Contributions Routinely provides useful ideas when participating in the group an in classroom discussion. An active member who contributes to the discussion and is really a part of the group. Usually provides useful ideas when participating in the group and in classroom discussion. A satisfactory group member who contributes to the discussion
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‘The school day should start late’ Almost every weekday‚ high school students are waking up around six o’clock in the morning to get ready for school‚ some even earlier. It’s not practical for high school classes to start at 8.30 or earlier. It’s just too early for teenage minds to function properly. Our school should start at least an hour later than that. With the extra hour‚ our attendance would improve‚ as well as our grades and attitudes. The facts are all there‚ so why shouldn’t the hours
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sought asylum there since spurious gossip about her began circulating at Seagrove Academy last week. Not that Elizabeth had ever been considered a social butterfly. She preferred to live vicariously through the stories of her more brazen friends: late night partying‚ fraternizing with boys‚ childish pranks. Still‚ she had taken to being more by herself than usual since the allegations surfaced. She was up for consideration for the highly coveted Blauvelt Award‚ a scholarship recognizing “academic
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Urbanization in America Urbanization is described as an act or fact of urbanizing or taking on the characteristics of a city. It wasn’t until about thirty years after the civil war that America started seeing signs of urbanization. In the late nineteenth century‚ America started changing its lifestyle and started going from farming to city life. Cities started growing and more people started living in the cities. The Industrial Revolution of the 19th and 20th century gave people higher expectations
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In 1873‚ the late nineteenth century was named The Gilded Age‚ thanks to Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner. This reflected the time’s combination of dazzle and wealth along with poverty and inner corruption. Most historians define this period by it’s negatives‚ due to a lack of powerful presidents and cheap history. These people‚ Twain and Warner included‚ weren’t wrong about The Gilded Age’s corruption. However. there were also some of the most influential years in American history during this
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