Breaking Through to Flow: Lean Workshop by Lean Enterprise
Australia
In your organization:
- Are daily or weekly plans and schedules ever changed after
being issued?
- Is the prime focus of LEAN eliminating waste?
- Is the accuracy of demand forecasting ever an
issue?
- Would “firefighting” be an appropriate term to describe the
way things are, at times, done?
if so, then read on!
Many companies are faced with a recurring cycle of unpredictable
demands, short term plan changes, fire-fighting, high stocks yet
low customer service. Others have mapped their current state,
identified their future state and determined that they need to move
to a level pull production approach, but are having difficulty
taking the next step.
For both groups, this workshop offers a practical intermediate
step (on the path to a truly lean system) that can be implemented
immediately, resulting in improved stability, understood demand
patterns, few plan changes, repetitive fixed cycles, lower stocks,
reduced lead time and higher customer service.
Lean Enterprise Academy has developed a step by step
methodology for implementing levelled production in industries
where it currently may seem impossible. Implementation delivers
step changes in current levels of performance, margins and customer
responsiveness.
Workshop Description
“Breaking Through to Flow” explains how lean thinking and
essential tools, such as levelled production apply in all types of
industry sector.
The workshop uses analogies and examples from a variety of
industries to show how their traditional production systems create
waste and how lean eliminates the waste to improve responsiveness,
flexibility, productivity, and profitability.
You will learn why and how lean production’s fundamental logic
really does apply to all industries and how it differs from
existing supply chain logic. Learn how to begin adapting lean
thinking by using the concept of levelled production to smooth the
type and quantity of production over a fixed period. This enables
production to more efficiently meet customer demands while
minimizing inventories, capital costs, manpower, and production
lead time.
In a case study example, you will apply a tool called “The Glenday
Sieve” to make the transition to a lean production system with
current plant and equipment limitations. You will
also learn: -
- The flawed logic behind traditional production systems, the
alternative lean logic and why it is better
- How to start on the path of implementing the five steps of
levelling
- How to use the Sieve analysis tool to efficiently run smaller
batches more frequently, eliminate excess inventory, eradicate
“fire Fighting”, remove non-value adding complexity in materials
and involve the whole organisation in improvement
- Where to target kaizen events for the maximum payback
- How to efficiently run small batches at frequent intervals
- How to Identify and eliminate “institutional waste,” --
unnecessary complexity in materials that adds costs but little or
no value and is “baked-in” to current ways of
working
- How to apply the concept of Every Product Every Cycle where you
have hundreds of SKU’s and how this results in “Economies Of
Repetition” and better customer, employee and bottom line
results
- How to create an environment that supports employee involvement
and genuine continuous improvement, involving all departments in
the lean transformation.
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email Peter Walsh. |
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