The 7 Wastes and How to Reduce Them in Your Organisation
The 7 Wastes is a way to help us look for the lost time between cycle times and lead times in manufacturing and eliminate it.
Lean Tools
5S and a Visual Workplace – Essential for Sustaining Lean Manufacturing
Many lean experts are critical of 5S and think it is a superficial tool. However while, 5S and Visual Workplace are not “the solution” for creating a lean culture, it is an essential factors in sustaining any lean production system.
Production Flow Elements – First In First Out (FIFO)
A key part of implementing Lean Manufacturing into a Production area is understanding Flow; how parts move along the processes, between each workstation and what this looks like across the week and month. The future state value stream map has provided a vision for what the Production flow will look like, defining which parts of the overall production process can flow easily, which parts needs direction and which sections need