Lean means “manufacturing without waste.” Waste (“muda” in Japanese) has many forms.
Material, time, idle equipment, and inventory are examples. Most companies waste 70%-90% of their available resources. Even the best Lean Manufacturers probably waste 30%.
Lean Manufacturing and Cellular Manufacturing improve material handling, inventory, quality, scheduling, personnel and customer satisfaction.
Aims and Objectives of Lean Manufacturing Transform companies into ‘Superior Global Competitors’ is the one and only aim of Lean Manufacturing.
For the purpose of this workshop, the main objective would be to familiarize participants with this unique concept of Lean Manufacturing. This should whet the appetite enough for participants to encourage YOUR ORGANIZATION ….. to meet the ‘aim’ – to transform companies into Superior Global Competitors.
Lean Manufacturing, the modern way for all industries to progress steadily towards World Class Performance
Eliminating Waste
How the core disciplines of Lean Manufacturing attack waste
Workcells and Flow Lines
How cellular manufacturing results in less handling, faster throughput, higher productivity and better quality
How to design a basic one- product workcell
Why One-Piece Flow is advantageous and how to achieve it
Rapid Setup
Why fast, predictable setups smooth production and enable smaller lots
How to achieve faster and more consistent setups
Work Teams
Why cells and teams complement and reinforce one another
What teams need for success
Pull & Synchronous Scheduling
To install and operate an elementary Kanban system
Why simple visual systems outperform computers in many situations
Kaizen & TQM
Variability and The Normal Curve How Control Charting Prevents Defects
Problem-Solving Teams to Improve The Process
Be customer focused: Be on-time, responsive, flexible, and fast. Simplify and standardize workflows: Mimic continuous flow, minimize WIP, use visible measures.
Manage capacity: Increase process uptime, reduce set-up times, find “lost” capacity.
Eliminate waste: Identify non-value adding activities, then modify, combine, or eliminate those tasks.
JIT: Not too early and never late; not just-in-case inventory but just-in time production and delivery; products must always be made right the first time; equipment must always work when needed.
Introduction – the cost management process in Lean Management
The risks of poor cost control
Understand Financial Statement for Cost Reduction
Capital and revenue costs
The importance of cost awareness
Understand Financial Statement – Sales /COGS /SGA / Tax/ Nett Profit
Identify the high cost area
Identify the non Value add in the cost perspective
The importance of cost reduction Cost management – the key aspects
How to build a cost management and control process checklist for your areas of responsibility through Project Management
Eliminate Waste with Lean
Identify the waste
Identify the types of waste
Use pull scheduling instead of push scheduling.
Schedule to the rate-determining step (the bottleneck)
Facilitate fast feedback
Components of Lean Overview of the Components of Lean:
Value Stream Mapping,
Workplace Organization, Predictability & Consistency,
Set-up Reduction,
TPM,
Visual Factory,
Support Processes, & Continuous Improvement.
Manufacturing Losses in the Lean Perspective
Productivity Perspective
Productivity Understanding
Losses in the manufacturing – 16 losses
Identify the losses
Understanding the losses
Measuring the losses Continuous Improvement
Basic concept of continuous improvement
Improving Equipment losses
Improving Human Efficiency
Improving Production Resources
Data Drives Lean
Focus efforts on projects that lead to tangible saving.
Calculation techniques to generate data include:
Time studies, equipment loading, TAKT time, staffing requirements, process yields, & CTQ.
Roadmap for Lean
Start with the people issues.
Focus on workplace organization then, use value stream analysis and process workflow analysis to establish effective layouts. Where to focus next depends on specific needs.
Use targeted Kaizen events to speed changes. Do not overlook the need to modify support processes
Transform companies into ‘Superior Global Competitors’ is the one and only aim of Lean Manufacturing. For the purpose of this workshop, the main objective would be to familiarize participants with this unique concept of Lean Manufacturing.
This should whet the appetite enough for participants to encourage YOUR ORGANIZATION ….. to meet the ‘aim’ – to transform companies into Superior Global Competitors.
Lean Manufacturing, the modern way for all industries to progress steadily towards World Class Performance
Methodology The workshop session is made up of interactive and practical training, with tools and techniques for each module.
The program methodology used includes a combination of:
Experiential activities in the workshop
Case Studies
Participation / Projects
Group Presentation
Development and Implementation of Lean Manufacturing
Participative Workshops with a Group
Individual Learning and Reflection Team Learning, Reflection, and Support
Enhancing learning through Video