How Lean Manufacturing will help to improve Productivity
Lean is the term which has core philosophy of doing more and more with less and less. Lean System can also be referred as FIT without Fat. Origin of Lean is from Manufacturing set up in Japan which had always valued its scare resources which is primarily space.
Applying Lean to Optimize Your Office Performance
It is well known fact that Lean manufacturing has helped transform thousands of organisations world wide and helped them to strive inspite of changing business situations and challenges. Lean Practicing companies have crossed barriers of countries, sectors, regions, product offering, low volume high mix, high mix low volume manufacturing operations. Lean thinking is all about applying common sense to improve business performance through people involvement. Every lean organisation strives to maximise delivered value to the customers by optimising flow of products and customers in alignment to the customer demand. This obviously calls for waste elimination while delivering value
Best practices of Operational Excellence Journey Methodologies
Our answer is yes. Every tool/methodology has unique features that helps for every business. Seven Steps Business Transformation is in the field of helping organisations in their Journey of Excellence. As combination of business excellence and operational excellence, every company where we have helps got substantial benefits and improvement in their overall performance.
TQM,TPM,LEAN,SIXSIGMA: Right strategy for organization’s business excellence journey
1.0: The need for Business Excellence Journey? There are four Cs which drive organization for Business Excellence. Competition, Customer, Company/CEO Vision and Crisis. Today organizations have one or more of above reasons for taking Business Excellence Journey. Note: Some organizations call it Operational Excellence which is according to the author is a sub-set of Business Excellence.
Lean Maintenance Applied to Improve Factory Performance
Need for 100% uptime of machines from the production department has never gone out of demand. Day to day production needs are always to be met to meet delivery performance and revenue of the organisation. One may ask if zero maintenance time is really possible.
Quality Improvement in the Workplace
We asked a question to our linked-in group members. In the equation Y=F(x), where Y= organization culture and x1, x 2 etc… are factors influence the culture, identify those factors. Also what are the 3 xs strongly influence the culture? We received various answers like Geographic location, Value system, Vision, Constancy of purpose, leadership, Management commitment, external environment, Quality Management systems, Human Resource development etc…most of them are interrelated. Example: Poor implementation of quality management system is reflection of poor management commitment and leadership and so on… Let us discuss about three important factors which according to us have strong influence on quality culture.
Phases of Lean Transformation
Lean is a way of thinking. It is a journey that is never over. It is a system framed in a collection of rules and principles. Current conditions and criteria must be examined.
Lean Information technology- Implementation of Lean Thinking in Information Technology- Seven Steps Global
It is a proven fact that Lean Manufacturing, Lean services, Lean Logistics, Lean Hospitals, Lean construction on so on are having a tremendous impact on business transformation towards delivering high value to the customer and organization. In all domains where Lean is working well, it is not just an application of tools and techniques. It is the way people think differently.
Standard Work Methodology- How To Sustain Daily Operations In Lean Practicing Companies
Standard work is one of the fundamental Lean tool for defining the best combination of man and machine activity for the best productivity. It consists of timing for different elemental activities, the path to be followed by the operator in doing the activities. Standard work has 3 elements:
Effective Lean Daily Work Management System
With Lean Daily Work Management System at the core of its operations, an organization will be able to quickly identify deviation, start solving problems and make strategy deployment a success. Lean Daily Management System (LDMS) comprises of fundamental components for dealing with the presentation of tasks from operations. LDMS helps in improving overall performance of the organization through effective management of key tasks and timelines. With straightforward and powerful visual tools, you can streamline your operational exhibition by eliminating the sources of variation brought about by traditional management and oversight practices.Lean Daily Work Management will assist you with establishing a precise way to deal with oversee the same affairs, delegate, empower and manage performance of business/process.
Bouncing Back After COVID 19- 4Cs Which Will Drive Business Results Through Business Excellence
Four Cs which will drive Business results through Business Excellence. One of them is not Covid-19! Yes! Corona or COVID 19 both starting with letter C has put the entire world in a Chaotic situation. Decades before this I wrote about 4Cs which drive any organizations to pursue the Journey of excellence.
Objectives of Jishu Hozen (Autonomous Maintenance)
Life of equipment depends not only on how well it is used but also on how well it is maintained. Various versions of maintenance techniques are in use. Total Productive Maintenance popularized by Japanese is one of the best methodology used worldwide There are 8 pillars of implementing Total Productive Maintenance Focussed improvementAutonomous MaintenancePlanned MaintenanceEducation and trainingEarly ManagementQuality MaintenanceAdministration and support department activitiesSafety, Health, and environment management.
