Lean Manufacturing
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Lean is about continuous improvement. That means fixing what bugs you everyday! You improve by reducing the 8 deadly wastes.
- Overproduction
- Overprocessing
- Motion
- Waiting
- Transportation
- Inventory
- Rework of Defects
- Unused Employee Potential
Waste is eliminated through continuous improvement. Some Important Lean Principles:
- Lean thinkers encourage other peoples creativity, respect for people.
- Lean thinkers don’t own ideas, it is always a team effort.
- Lean thinkers say they are wrong at least 2 times a day.
- Improvements are endless because waste is like gravity.
- 90% of everything you do is waste.
- Never look at the waste of others, you will always have plenty of your own!
- Lean is not about working fast, but rather working smooth.
7 Magic Bullets to Building a Lean Culture
- Teaching and training people.
- The 2 second improvement everyday from everyone.
- Daily Morning 3-S: Sweep, Sort and Standardize.
- Start a daily morning meeting.
- Start your lean journey in the bathroom.
- Start your lean journey slow.
- Never start your lean journey until you are 1000% sure it is the right direction for you. If you do start prior to this understanding, you will fail.
The Results of Building a Lean Culture
- Operational excellence
- Low turnover
- Customer retention
- Consistent reduction in cost
- Consistent increase in quality
- Continuous innovation
- A fun place to work