Overview of The LEAN Manufacturing Principles

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Overview of The LEAN Manufacturing Principles
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• LEAN is a Management model that was designed for
  automobile manufacturing plants, during the 70s.
  The goal of LEAN is to develop a culture towards
  a more efficient organization through changes in
  business processes in order to increase the speed
  of response by reducing waste, costs, iso 3001
  risk management and time.
• At present, the most competitive companies in all
  sectors of the industry use this management
  system and its associated tools to be the best.
  This optimization has a high impact when the LEAN
  Manufacturing and 6 sigma systems are integrated.

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Here are some of the LEAN Manufacturing
Principles

• Specify the Value for the clients (eliminate
  waste). We should not think for the clients. The
  customer pays for the things that he thinks are
  valuable and not for the things we think are
  valuable. Value-added activities are those that
  the customer is willing to pay for them. All
  others are waste (MUDA).
• dentify the map of the value chain (VSM) for each
  product / service. The sequence of activities
  that allows responding to a customer need
  represents a flow of value. By creating a map
  of the value stream, it is possible to identify
  those activities that do not add value, from the
  clients point of view, in order to be able to
  eliminate them.

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• Favour the flow (without interruption). We must
  achieve a continuous movement of the product /
  service through the value stream. Therefore, we
  have to reduce the delay times in the value flow
  by removing the obstacles in the process.
• Let clients pull production (PULL system). The
  application of Flow and Pull generate a faster
  and more accurate response with less effort and
  less waste. It allows producing only what the
  client requests and avoids the generation of an
  unnecessary stock.