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The method, in its own words.
The vocabulary of a synchronized yard, each term defined from the shop floor and linked to the case it comes from.
Lexicon
The working vocabulary of a synchronized yard
TACTOne interval of time in which every workstation completes its work, so the whole yard moves together.Detailed Work Procedure (DWP)The team’s own written account of what it will do, in what order, with what labour and material. The unit of TACT.Ban MeetingA weekly hour in which each working team reviews its tasks and TACT targets, last week’s variances and the week’s safety.Ban-jangThe foreman who leads a working team of eight to fifteen people and owns its TACT for the week.EPP IntegrationEngineering, procurement and production subordinated to one master, the production beat.WORKOUTA short working session of the people on either side of a bottleneck, convened as a standing practice.Go-and-CheckManagement present at the worksite on a fixed timetable. Its opposite is Wait-and-See.Ideal RealityThe highest performance the existing capability could deliver if a different structure released it.Zone-based TACT planningPlanning by compartment rather than by ship system: one team, one zone, one window at a time.Baton-touchA handover complete enough that the next trade starts at once. The next process is my customer.Grand modulizationMoving dock work upstream into a grand-module factory. At Okpo it cut the dock cycle from twelve weeks to eight.One-time settingErecting a block, even a 400-tonne mega-block, in a single setting because accuracy was held upstream.
The book
The Heartbeat of the Shipyard
Bringing a Yard Back to Life and the Structure That Keeps It Beating
Fifty years of shipyard practice in one method: two recoveries told from the inside, and the operating system drawn from them.