CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM

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Lean Manufacturing

• CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM

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Our company continues to grow at 15 to 20 each
year.
GROWING PAINS
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Hasta La vista baby !!
OUR CUSTOMERS WILL SAY
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Our inventory in the stock room grows.

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How do we grow ?How do we make the right
product on time ?How do we lower our stock room
inventory ?How do we maintain a good quality
product ?
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We could hire more people and buy more machines.
This would cost us
We could raise the price of our products.
Currently our customers are asking us to REDUCE
the price of our products!
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We need to become more efficient in our
manufacturing.ANDWe need to find waste in our
process and cut it out.
BEFORE WE DO ANYTHING ELSE
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gt Get all of the needed parts to Assembly at the
right time.
GOALS
gt Produce more product using our current
resources.
gt Lower our stock room inventory.
gt Accurately forecast exactly how long it takes
to make our products and ship them on time.
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LEAN
What is

• A systematic approach to identifying and
  eliminating waste through continuous improvement
  in pursuit of perfection.

• Striving to do more with less, and do it
  consistently.
• Work Smarter Not Harder

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THE LEAN FORMULA
TEAMWORK FORM A TEAM OF PEOPLE, THE PEOPLE
THAT ACTUALLY DO THE WORK
IDEAS THE TEAM DEVELOPS IDEAS ON HOW TO
ELIMINATE WASTE
OBSERVE ANALYZE THE CURRENT SITUATION
COMMUNICATION MAKE SURE EVERYONE KNOWS THE
GOALS, THE CHANGES BEING MADE, THE SUCCESSES,
AND THE FAILURES
CULTURE CREATE A CONTINOUS IMPROVEMENT
CULTURE. ALWAYS CONSIDER NEW IDEAS
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8 Forms of Waste
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VALUE STREAM MAP
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the operations.
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the operations.
the operations.
FINDING WASTE
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LEAN TOOL BOX
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TOOLS
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Kaizen
Kaizen Event

• The definition of Kaizen has been Americanized
  to mean "Continual Improvement." A closer
  definition of the Japanese meaning of Kaizen is
  "to take apart and put back together in a better
  way."

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Do you have any ideas ?
Heres what we are doing
What problems Can we solve ?
COMMUNICATION
Heres where We are going
How can we make this better ?