Continuous Improvement
What is continuous improvement?
Also known as lean manufacturing or Six Sigma, continuous improvement focuses on creating maximal productivity with minimal waste.
What benefits does continuous improvement offer?
- Optimize your process, cut costs, and boost innovation
- Teach you to identify manufacturing wastes and inefficiencies
- Implement new technologies
- Improve overall operational efficiency
- Increase profits
- Streamline your process and production
- Use value stream mapping
- Standardize operations
- Implement quick changeover/ setup reduction
- Problem solve in the lean mindset
- Provide technology solutions
Common challenges that benefit from continuous improvement/ lean manufacturing include:
- Inability to keep up with orders
- Inconsistent product quality
- Defects
- Inventory excess
- Overproduction
- Insufficient production space
- Setup taking too long
- Transportation
- Nightmarish work schedules
- Waiting
- Feeling dissatisfied with your supply quality or supply chain management
- Under-utilizing talent
- Too many manual tasks to perform
- Need to improve visibility in your operations
- Motion waste
- Excess processing