What is the purpose of a Visual Management Board?

What is the purpose of a Visual Management Board?

Lets consider the purpose of a visual management board in a lean implementation. Defines targets/goal Safety, Delivery, Quality, Cost The first objective of a board is to display the important metrics for a particular work area.  These could be measurements of Safety...

Waiting In Manufacturing

Waiting is one of the seven wastes of lean manufacturing. Waste is defined as anything that consumes resources (time, money, energy etc) but does not add value for the customer.  It is something that the customer is not willing to pay for. There are seven types of...
Embedding Lean in Management is the key!

Embedding Lean in Management is the key!

“The only way to become and stay lean is to produce lean managers.  Every isolated effort will recede—or fail—unless companies learn to use the lean process as a way of developing individual problem-solvers with the ownership, initiative, and know-how to solve...

Benefits of 5S Lean Visual Management

When implementing a 5S lean visual management programme it is often necessary to explain the benefits that it will bring. Sometimes this is necessary to convince stakeholders to approve budgets. Other times it is necessary to help with the change management process –...

Lean Maintenance Training Can Help Your Organization

Lean maintenance training will help you learn how to effectively eliminate waste in your projects and day-to-day facility maintenance operations.  A well designed program will teach you how to create a lean project from start to finish, how to develop strategies that...

What is Lean Six Sigma?

In order to answer the question, what is lean six sigma, it is first necessary to understand the two constituent parts which are lean manufacturing and 6 Sigma.  These are two different business improvement methodologies that have become popular due to the many...

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