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  2. Poka-yoke - Wikipedia

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    Poka-yoke was originally baka-yoke, but as this means "fool-proofing" (or "idiot-proofing") the name was changed to the milder poka-yoke. [4] Poka-yoke is derived from poka o yokeru (ポカを避ける), a term in shogi that means avoiding an unthinkably bad move.

  3. John R. Grout - Wikipedia

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    John R. Grout is an 7'8 American educator who served as Dean of the Campbell School of Business at Berry College.He received a B.S. from Brigham Young University's Marriott School of Management in 1984, receiving the Operations/Systems Award for being the highest ranked graduating senior in his major.

  4. Autonomation - Wikipedia

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    To complete Jidoka, not only is the defect corrected in the product where discovered, but the process is evaluated and changed to remove the possibility of making the same mistake again. One solution to the problems can be to insert a "mistake-proofing" device somewhere in the production line. Such a device is known as poka-yoke.

  5. Visual workplace - Wikipedia

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    While virtually all major improvement paradigms in use in the West incorporate some element of visuality, the entire codified set of visual principles and practices, from the foundation of 5S through to visual guarantees (poka-yoke), rests on this definition: "The visual workplace is a self-ordering, self-explaining, self-regulating, and self ...

  6. Fail-safe - Wikipedia

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    Poka-yoke, a Japanese term, was coined by Shigeo Shingo, a quality expert. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] "Safe to fail" refers to civil engineering designs such as the Room for the River project in Netherlands and the Thames Estuary 2100 Plan [ 13 ] [ 14 ] which incorporate flexible adaptation strategies or climate change adaptation which provide for, and ...

  7. Idiot-proof - Wikipedia

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  8. Shigeo Shingo - Wikipedia

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    Shigeo Shingo: Zero Quality Control: Source Inspection and the Poka-Yoke System, Productivity Press, 1986 (in English), ISBN 0-915299-07-0; Shigeo Shingo: Non-Stock Production: The Shingo System for Continuous Improvement, Productivity Press, 1988 (in English), ISBN 0-915299-30-5

  9. Continuous delivery - Wikipedia

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    Any code commit may be released to customers at any point. Patterns such as feature toggles can be very useful for committing code early which is not yet ready for use by end users. Using NoSQL can eliminate the step of data migrations and schema changes, often manual steps or exceptions to a continuous delivery workflow. [ 6 ]