Lean Manufacturing Principles
We believe in spreading lean concepts throughout your organization. In many cases, our experts train improvement teams during specific projects. We also offer a class in lean manufacturing simulation that provides an understanding of lean concepts as well as exposure to a variety of tools. Whether your employees learn the applications while working at your site or take the classroom approach, they will measure the results of techniques that include:
- Improved information and product flow
- Smaller batch sizes
- Point-of-use storage
- Quality at the source
- 5S and workplace organization
- Pull systems
- Cellular manufacturing
- Simplified scheduling
- Visual controls
- Kanban inventory management
- Standardized Work
Benefits
By helping employees understand, through direct experience, the need for and value of continuous improvement, we help our clients realize:
- Improvements in shop-floor communication
- Greater receptiveness to process changes and more productive team behaviors
- Waste reduction
- Improved manufacturing productivity, space utilization, and product quality
- Reduced lead time from order placement to shipping
- Elimination of hidden costs of work-in-process and other inventories
- Increased flexibility to meet customer demands
- More cost-efficient products that meet customers’ needs