Lean System=/= Stack Lean Tools

The puzzle of Lean implementation

Lean manufacturing is a management philosophy to reduce waste, improve efficiency and encourage continuous improvement leading to reach the goal of short lead-time, high quality and low cost which can establish core competitive advantage in the marketing place. Some companies have implemented fundamental lean concepts and tools, such as Kanban, Value Stream Mapping, 6S, and Pull which bring considerable savings and benefits. Meanwhile, some problems still puzzle us: How to get a quantified assessment of improvement from Lean manufacturing? Do shop-floor level employees get any cognitive improvement? How to evaluate Lean efforts? How to align Lean tools to company strategy? How to set up a systematical and standardized Lean approach for different manufactory environments……

Enterprise Lean Deployment Program Project Goal

－ Design suitable Models to evaluate & improve YOUR organizational performance.
－ Can be adapted to any type/size of organization…and to any portion of the complete Enterprise.
－ Deploy operational excellence through think and teach, Gamba walk, improvement initiative coach.
－ Learn by practices to establish the business needs of mindset change for Lean cultural.
－ To make the company fully understand the current Lean status through quantified data.

Project Key steps

Benefit

－ Through the Enterprise Diagnose process, companies can understand the current status of company performance and find the gaps to improvement.
－ Understand that the Lean implementation is not about “check the box” and “Pilot all Lean tools”, it is about setting a suitable and sustain Lean management system for YOUR company.
－ Train and establish a core team for Lean deployment, but not rely on a Lean Master.
－ Regular use of Lean Deployment self-assessment to evaluate the current state/gaps, identify the improvement opportunity with action plan.
－ Let employees realize that their job = “Do the work” + “Improve the work”.

Sample Design