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What is Lean?
Lean is “A systematic approach to identifying and eliminating waste (non-value-added activities) through continuous improvement by flowing the product at the pull of the customer in pursuit of perfection.”
This strategy is used by organizations to help achieve world-class performance, and a more profitable way to run a manufacturing business. This systematic approach will help to identify and eliminate the eights types of waste in a business. Waste is defined as non-value activities — any activity that the customer is not willing to pay additional monies for.
A Lean enterprise embraces a company culture where
the employees are empowered and expected to deliver results. Without employee support,
you cannot make any changes, especially sustainable changes, within your organization.
Your company culture will define how employees perform on the job, their relationship
with management, how they react to change, and how well they work with each other.
Many companies have achieved higher employee morale, in part because lean manufacturing
includes listening to workers and their ideas about how to run things better.
The value of implementing Lean Manufacturing will include:
- Improve quality, safety and productivity
- Define and eliminate waste and focus on value added activities
- Reduce lead times, inventories, and costs
- Optimize space usage
- Improved on time shipments
- Create an empowered work force
- Capitalize on effective teamwork
- Quick changeover
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement
- Open lines of communication from CEO to shop floor
- Support value added activities that customers are willing to pay for
- More focus on the customers expectations and requirements
- improved employee morale
Lean is not a destination — it’s a journey