Lean enterprise is an integrated business strategy that effectively creates value by employing lean principles and practices within the Design, Supply Chain, Manufacturing and Customer business segments. Specifically, it is a systematic approach to identifying and eliminating waste (non-value added activities) through time, materials, efficiency and processes. Lean Enterprise is applicable to any organization providing goods and/or services and is becoming increasingly important in today's global market and competition. A lean mindset will prepare companies to position themselves for the challenges and opportunities of the future.
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What is Lean Enterprise?
How can Quality Systems Services Help you with your Lean Projects?
Quality Systems Services will:
Quality Systems Services will:
- Help you perform your "Lean Baseline Assessment"
- Assist you with developing your Value Stream Map
- Provide "lean" training for all employees
- Facilitate the planning and goal setting process
- Support implementing the elements of the basic lean building blocks
- Facilitate the ongoing improvement to help you sustain a Lean Process
Lean Functions:
- Lean Product Design: Applies lean thinking to remove waste from all aspects of the product and associated development process before it ever gets to downstream processes. Maximizes customer values through knowledge-based, set-based, concurrent, etc designs.
- Lean Supply Chain: Involves the planning, execution, and design across multiple supply chain partners to deliver products of the right design, in the right quantity, at the right place, at the right time. A lean supply chain uses lean manufacturing principles and Rate Based Planning and Execution (RBPE).
- Lean Accounting/Costing: Concepts are designed to better reflect the financial performance of a company that has implemented lean manufacturing processes. These may include organizing costs by value stream, changing valuation techniques and modifying financial statements to include non-financial information. (Reference: AICPA)
- Lean Support Center: Customer-centric service operations such as a call center, field service, returns processing center, etc., shall demonstrate world-class capability to support end-users and their clients with the best quality at lowest cost. Lean tools can be employed to improve service metrics, such as cycle time, response time to customer inquiry, etc.
"Quality Systems Services has played a large role in raising the awareness
of our people regarding waste in processes through training and employee involvement."Jody Hay, Human Resource Manager
Corvette America
Lean Process:
- Identify Projects
- Develop Teams
- Deliver Training
- Define Goals and Objectives
- Measure Current State
- Analyze and Identify Improvements
- Implement Improvements
- Control/Monitor Changes for Effectiveness
Lean Building Blocks:
- Pull/Kanban
- Total Productive Maintenance
- Point of Source Storage
- Standardized Work
- Teams
- Visual Controls
- Cellular/ Flow
- Quality at Source
- Quick Changeover
- Batch Reduction
- 5S
- Streamlined Layout
Additional Lean Tools:
- Value Stream Mapping
- Leveled Scheduling
- Poka-Yoke & Jidoko
- Internalize the process into your daily job functions
- Understand it is a never ending process/philosophy
- Management must be visible and supportive
- Create open communication and teamwork
- Identify champions internally to sustain the process
- Recognize and reward teams for success
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Lean Enterprise, contact our Sales Department: sales@qualitysystemsservices.net