Lean Manufacturing Lite

★ Deploy Lean Manufacturing to significantly improve the operational efficiency of your Production System: reducing wastes and maximizing profits. This approach is particularly effective in this current period of economic crisis. This will give you a strong competitive advantage.

★ This application allows you to:

- deploy Lean Manufacturing (Paid version only): tool by tool, area by area, by a business approach,

- continuously treat production data on workplace, in collaboration with operators.

★ Deploy Lean Manufacturing around these pillars (Paid version only):

- 5S,

- visual management,

- standardization of operations,

- production leveling.

★ The “Deploy” part (Paid version only) consists of practical explanations, illustrated by many drawings:

- Determine where you should start your continuous improvement approach

- Make work environment cleaner and safer

- Develop communication tools through a visual management

- Calculate time really available for manufacture

- Identify and eliminate wastes of Value Added

- Adjust production cycle on the need of customer through Takt time

- Assign resources strictly necessary for manufacture

- Reduce your changeover time

- Build a Kanbans schedule to manage workflow by Just-In-Time

- Sustain Lean through a structured approach

★ Calculate easily major indicators of Lean: Required Time, Net Time, Fully Productive Time, Availability Rate, Quality rate, OEE Overall Equipment Effectiveness, Average Daily Demand, Takt time, Resources, Kanban.

★ Send data (collected and calculated) by email.

★ No particular knowledge is required to use this application:

- Lean beginners will appreciate: road map to self deploy Lean, topics that may be read independently, explanations with lot of drawings, calculators for main Lean indicators, send questions to authors;

- Lean experts will appreciate: materials to use on workplace, concrete examples.

★ Improve this app: if you want more information about a topic or if you want information about a new topic, contact us: [email protected].

★ Please, update this app to fully benefit of new topics, bug fixes or performance improvement. This app is updated regularly.

★ Keywords: 5M, 5S, Continuous improvement, Demand Flow Technology, Gemba, Heijunka, Hoshin kanri, Jidoka, Just-In-Time, Kaizen, Kanbans, Lean Manufacturing, Net time, OEE Overall Equipment Effectiveness, Muda, Mura, Muri, PDCA, Quality rate, Resources, Six Sigma, SMED, Standardization, Strategy deployment, Takt time, U-cell, Value added, VSM, Wastes, world class.