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Rapid Process Improvement Event Overview

• Dewey Warden

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What is RPI?

• RPI stands for Rapid Process Improvement
• RPI supports continuous improvement
• Origin of RPI is Kaizen
• Kai means Take apart
• Zen means Make it good

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Why RPI?

• A RPI Event provides focus.
• On a process
• On an operation
• This helps to identify value and waste

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Understanding RPI

• RPI is a means of getting people to solve
  problems
• Generate ideas
• Temporary fulltime projects
• Begin with get-it-done type people

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Understanding RPI

• RPI is a means of changing culture
• Events must be successful
• Events must have management support
• RPI requires the Right Spirit

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Understanding RPI

• Use RPI events as building blocks
• Continuous improvement
• Changing cultures
• Utilizing value stream mapping and lean tools

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RPI Fits Our Culture

• Absolutes of Quality
• Continuous improvements
• Performance expectations
• Five-step problem solving process

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RPI Tools

• Quick changeovers
• 5Ss
• Standardized work
• Pull production
• Kanban
• Total productive maintenance

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Leading an RPI Event

• Leadership and a willingness to embrace change
  and embrace lean, believe in it
• Be participative and not dictatorial
• Be fair, firm, assertive and friendly
• Be able to take control when necessary
• Be willing to be out on the floor when necessary

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Before the RPI Event

• Identify the lean advocate
• Create a current state value stream map
• Identify opportunities for improvement
• Create a future state value stream map
• Identify RPIs
• Prioritize the RPIs

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Create a Current State Value Stream Map

• You might want to videotape your processes and
  complete process observation sheets
• Cycle time analysis
• Takt time analysis
• Current manpower requirements

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Create a Current State Value Stream Map

• Identify materials in the selected area
• Average daily usage
• Replenishment time
• Current ordering patterns
• Footprint of current storage space
• Identify changeover times

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Identify Opportunities for Improvement

• Process
• Kanban pull vs push
• Standard work and cycle time
• Techniques to support lean

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Create a Future State Value Stream Map

• Draw the future state to
• Eliminate the waste and add value to the
  processes
• Reduce lead time and inventory

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Identify the RPIs

• Use the current state to draw the kaizen bursts
  or individual projects that would be slotted for
  RPIs to change from the current to the future

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Identify RPIs

• Identify opportunities by recognizing waste
• What is waste?
• Waste is any element that adds cost without
  adding value to the product

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Prioritize the RPIs

• After all the kaizen bursts or RPIs have been
  identified while creating the future state VSM
  then it is best to loop the RPIs and prioritize
  the events and begin implementing them

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The RPI Event

• Planning and preparation
• Implementation
• Presentation, celebration and evaluation

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Planning and Preparation

• Select an area
• Criteria
• Too much WIP inventory
• Bottlenecks
• Stoppages
• Mess
• Activities that occur all over the plant

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Planning and Preparation

• Select an easy project for your first RPI
• It should be visible
• It should have an impact
• It should be operational
• Can it be copied?

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Planning and Preparation

• Select a problem for improvement
• Keep the elimination of waste as the focus
• Look at gimba real things
• The factory, facts and WIP
• Ask what, why, how, where, when?

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Planning and Preparation

• Select people
• Facilitator
• The lean advisory team will lead the first RPI
  event
• The companys lean advocate will lead the second
  RPI while we facilitate
• The companys lean advocate will lead and
  facilitate the third RPI event while we observe

Source Productivity Press
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Planning and Preparation

• Lean advocate
• Help select team members
• Help gather information necessary for the event
• Help prepare for the event
• Coordinate assignments
• Compile information
• Help get the team ready for the presentation
• Do follow-up and store information

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Planning and Preparation

• Select people
• Team leader
• Leadership
• Willingness to embrace change and lean
• Be participative and not dictatorial
• Be fair, firm, assertive and friendly
• Be able to take control when necessary
• Be willing to be out on the floor when necessary

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Planning and Preparation

• Team leader responsibilities
• Help select team members
• Help gather information necessary for the event
• Help prepare for the event
• Coordinate assignments
• Compile information
• Help get the team ready for the presentation
• Do follow-up and store information

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Planning and Preparation

• Select team members
• Should have about six but no more than twelve
• Include operators if possible
• Half should be from outside the area
• Maintenance add valuable expertise
• Team players
• Get-it-done type people not naysayers

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Planning and Preparation

• Train the team
• Train them to see the value stream map
• This will help everybody to see and understand
  the big picture, identify waste, identify what
  needs to be done and get buy-in into the overall
  strategy.
• Train them on overall lean concepts to eliminate
  waste

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Planning and Preparation

• Train the team
• Train them on how to do the 5Ss
• There has never been a successful implementation
  of lean without organizing the area.

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Implementation

• Understand the current situation
• Observe and gather your data
• Identify the improvements
• Test the improvements
• Implement the improvements

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Implementation

• Conduct the specific training needed for the
  event itself.
• Pull production
• Kanban
• Standardized work
• Total productive maintenance
• Quick changeovers

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Presentation, Celebration and Evaluation

• Prepare a presentation
• Rehearse the presentation
• Present the results
• Celebrate the results
• Follow-up