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Benifits Of Using Lean Management And Six Sigma Techniques.
The benifits of of using lean management techniques in your business are:
- Wastes Reduction ( Reduced Time and General Waste Just To Name A Few).
- Increased Productivity (This occurs when lean management is fully integrated into the work place and everyone within the company is using lean principles to manage their duties).
- Greater Ability To Manage Resources. (Resources are managed more easily with improvements in the handling of stock like just in time methodology and daily, weekly, monthly stock checks).
- Reduce Inventory. (This occurs over time with a reduction of stock and due to greater control over assembled resources held onsite).
If you plan to make Lean Changes in the work place. Keep them SMART.
- Specific.
- Measurable.
- Achievable.
- Realistic.
- Time bound.
The only way that Lean Management works is from the Top Down and from the Bottom Up.
- This means that everyone from the CEO to the Laborer or Cleaner must be involved to make it work.
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When You Think Of Quality, Ask Yourself These Questions!
1) Who defines product quality in your organisztion?
2) What do you visage as a quality product?
3) What percentage of quality defects are acceptable?
4) What is the cost of late product delivery to your organisation?
5) What affect does downtime have on both product quality and delivey times?
6) What part do bottlenecks play in affecting quality and delivery times?
7) What part do vendor relationships play in the delivery of quality products?
8) What is the cost of reworking defective products?
If your answers differ from these you need to look deeper
1) Answer: The customer.
2) Answer: A quality product is a product that meets or exceeds the customers satisfaction in quality, price and delivery time.
3) Answer: No defect is acceptable, it is tolerated.
4) Answer: The cost of late delivery varies from organisation to organisation but delayed delivery usually means that the company loses some part of the product value or in severe cases the customer gets the product for free.
5) Answer: Downtime often adds stress to workers who need to then rush to meet the demands and this causes quality issues as workers then don’t bother with quality and look for speeding work through the process.
6) Answer: Bottlenecks often cause delays in delivery and also these delays have a follow on effect as workers rush trying to meet the delivery deadlines and again quality becomes an issue.
7) Answer: Vendor relationships are very important in the delivery of quality products. If the vendors do not have quality assurance processes in place this may have adverse affects on the quality of your products as the quality of the raw materials may be of a leser quality of those required to meet customer standards.
8)
Answer: Rework often costs companies it takes personnel away from their key duties to perform rework, this may again cause delivery delays and ultimately costs the company money.
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When You Think Of Quality, Ask Yourself These Questions!
1) Who defines product quality in your organisztion?
2) What do you visage as a quality product?
3) What percentage of quality defects are acceptable?
4) What is the cost of late product delivery to your organisation?
5) What affect does downtime have on both product quality and delivey times?
6) What part do bottlenecks play in affecting quality and delivery times?
7) What part do vendor relationships play in the delivery of quality products?
8) What is the cost of reworking defective products?
If your answers differ from these you need to look deeper
1) Answer: The customer.
2) Answer: A quality product is a product that meets or exceeds the customers satisfaction in quality, price and delivery time.
3) Answer: No defect is acceptable, it is tolerated.
4) Answer: The cost of late delivery varies from organisation to organisation but delayed delivery usually means that the company loses some part of the product value or in severe cases the customer gets the product for free.
5) Answer: Downtime often adds stress to workers who need to then rush to meet the demands and this causes quality issues as workers then don’t bother with quality and look for speeding work through the process.
6) Answer: Bottlenecks often cause delays in delivery and also these delays have a follow on effect as workers rush trying to meet the delivery deadlines and again quality becomes an issue.
7) Answer: Vendor relationships are very important in the delivery of quality products. If the vendors do not have quality assurance processes in place this may have adverse affects on the quality of your products as the quality of the raw materials may be of a leser quality of those required to meet customer standards.
8)
Answer: Rework often costs companies it takes personnel away from their key duties to perform rework, this may again cause delivery delays and ultimately costs the company money.
By
Michael Hurd
CEO
Hurd’s Business Consulting
Phone:
+44 (0) 7415 166309
Email:
michaeland.hurd@yahoo.co.uk
Get In Touch With Us Today!
Next Time You Think Of Quality, Ask Yourself These Questions!
1) Who defines product quality in your organisztion?
Answer: The customer.
2) What do you visage as a quality product?
Answer: A quality product is a product that meets or exceeds the customers satisfaction in quality, price and delivery time.
3) What percentage of quality defects are acceptable?
Answer: No defect is acceptable.
4) What is the cost of late product delivery to your organisation?
Answer: The cost of late delivery varies from organisation to organisation but delayed delivery usually means that the company loses some part of the product value or in severe cases the customer gets the product for free.
5) What affect does downtime have on both product quality and delivey times?
Answer: Downtime often adds stress to workers who need to then rush to meet the demands and this causes quality issues as workers then don’t bother with quality and look for speeding work through the process.
6) What part do bottlenecks play in affecting quality and delivery times?
Answer: Bottlenecks often cause delays in delivery and also these delays have a follow on effect as workers rush trying to meet the delivery deadlines and again quality becomes an issue.
7) What part do vendor relationships play in the delivery of quality products?
Answer: Vendor relationships are very important in the delivery of quality products. If the vendors do not have quality assurance processes in place this may have adverse affects on the quality of your products as the quality of the raw materials may be of a leser quality of those required to meet customer standards.
8) What is the cost of reworking defective products?
Answer: Rework often costs companies it takes personnel away from their key duties to perform rework, this may again cause delivery delays and ultimately costs the company money.
By
Michael Hurd
CEO
Hurd’s Business Consulting
Phone:
+44 (0) 7415 166309
Email:
michaeland.hurd@yahoo.co.uk
Use These 5 Steps To Enhance Your Lean Manufacturing.
Lean Manufacturing is the systematic method of waste reduction within a manufacturing system. Lean manufacturing aims to add value through the reduction of non value added activities.
Lean manufacturing is based on these 5 steps:
- Understanding Customer Value. Value must be externally focused. Only what your customers see as value is important.
- Value Stream Analysis. Analysis of the steps in your business process to find which ones add value to your customers.
- Flow. Instead of moving products from the work centre in large batches the material should flow continuously fom raw materials to finished products in production cells.
- Pull. Rather than build goods to inventory, customer demand pulls the finished products through the system.
- Perfection. As you eliminate waste from your processes and the products flow continuously with customer demand, you will realise that there is no end to reducing time, cost, space, mistakes and effort.
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Lean Manufacturing And Reducing The Wastes.
In lean manufacturing, Waste is commonly defined as non-value activity. There are seven common types of waste as follows:
● Early production: Producing more than the customer demands, or producing it earlier than the customer needs it. This ties up valuable labor and material resources that might otherwise be used to respond to customer demand.
● Delays: Waiting for materials, tools, information, equipment, etc. This may be a result of poor planning, late supplier deliveries, lack of communication, overbooking of equipment, or erratic demand.
● Transportation: Moving material more often than necessary. Material should be delivered and stored at its point of use. Why receive material at a receiving dock, move it to an inventory location, and then move it to the production floor when it can be delivered and stored where it is used.
● Inventory: Storing more material than is needed. This wastes valuable space and cash. By reducing inventory, plans for warehouse expansion can usually be postponed or cancelled.
● Processing: Doing more work on a part than is necessary, including inspection and reworking. This wastes time and money. Quality must be built into the manufacturing process so that parts are produced correctly the first time.
● Defects: Defective parts. Defects consume considerable resources. In addition to the original materials and labor used to manufacture the part, extra labor and machine time are required to fix the defective part. If the defective part is sold to a customer, not only will unnecessary shipping costs be lost, but more resources will be consumed to resolve the eventual complaints.
● Movement: Excess motion of employees in getting tools, picking parts, or moving from one point to another. This is usually the result of poorly planned work layout and workflow.
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Lean Methodology Helps To Achieve The Following Key Objectives.
● Eliminate wastes
● Reduce lead time
● Reduce cost
● Increase quality
● Reduced work-in process and inventory
● Increased inventory turns
● increased productivity
● Improved customer satisfaction
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