Lean is a proven, highly successful solution for eliminating non-value activities (waste), reducing lead times (order to cash), increasing productivity (more with less) and improving quality (right - the first time). It is a methodology for insuring your customers receive the best value for the services or product you provide. Lean:
Tools of Lean:
- Speeds cash-to-cash cycling
- Increases profits
- Identifies and quantifies improvement opportunities
- Provides value to your customer with the minimum amount of resources
- Aids in filling open capacity or increasing capacity
- Reduces non-value added wastes
- Transforms your organization by creating an improvement culture
- Teaches discipline in your operation
- Reduces and eliminates re-work and scrap costs
- Defines the optimal replenishment of resources
- Reduces inventory costs
- Improves on-time delivery
- Improves quality
- Speeds changeovers
- Reduces equipment losses
- Optimizes the competency and utilization of your associates
Tools of Lean:
- Standard Work (for leaders and processes)
- 5S (workplace organization)
- Value Stream Mapping (data driven process mapping that drives lean implementation)
- Quick Changeover (SMED - reducing costly and timely changeovers)
- Total Productive Maintenance (TPM - equipment optimization)
- Visual Enterprise (metrics, workplace, controls)
- Kanban (inventory control methods)
- Constraint Mitigation (identifying and removing throughput limits)
- Continuous Flow (producing product at the pull of the customer)
- Hoshin Kanri (alignment of company objectives at all levels of the organization)
- Just in Time (JIT - inventory control)
- Heijunka (level scheduling)
- Poka Yoke (error proofing)