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