Lean Thinking: What is Distinctive About It and Where is It Going?Marc Baker
It supports organizations in many aspects like reducing costs, optimizing processes, improving quality, etc. However, what really makes Lean effective is the focus on value. What Is Value in Lean? In terms of Lean, the value should always be considered from a customer perspective. At the end ...
How does Lean Six Sigma work? Wrap-up Lean Six Sigma is a process improvement methodology designed to eliminate problems, remove waste and inefficiency, and improve working conditions to provide a better response to customers’ needs. It combines the tools, methods and principles of Lean and Six...
inefficient production lines or unused materials that can’t be recycled or repurposed, the results are the same: a drag on productivity. This insistence on eliminating waste and improving the manufacturing process to maximize the value offered to customers is where the idea of the lean manufacturi...
Lean management is based on the Toyota production system, which was established in the late 1940s. Toyota put into practice the five principles of Lean management with the goal being to decrease the amount of processes that were not producing value; this became known as theToyota Way. By impl...
To achieve that goal, Lean manufacturing defines waste as anything that doesn’t add value to the customer. This can be a process, activity, product, or service; anything that requires an investment of time, money, and talent that does not create value for the customer is waste. Idle time...
3.Create flow.Eliminate functional barriers and identify ways to improve lead time. This aids in ensuring the processes are smooth from the time an order is received through to delivery. Flow is critical to the elimination of waste. Lean manufacturing relies on preventing interruptions in the prod...
The Toyota Production System (TPS) is the blueprint for Lean manufacturing. Introduced to the Western world through the publication of The Machine That Changed the World, TPS revolutionized the way companies approached production by emphasizing efficiency, waste reduction, and continuous improvement. Key...
Trying to emulate the advertising practices of large businesses is a major mistake.(And I’ll go into this more, shortly) If you’re in the startup phase, you’ll want to focus ondirect responseto build sales momentum, but I digress. ...
Most consultancies, superficial practitioners, and most literature focus only on the tools under the Continuous Improvement pillar of Lean. This is a mistake and many miss, mischaracterize, and fail to understand the spirit of how things are done with a Lean Thinking mindset or worldview. ...