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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,
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.
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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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To register interest,
email Peter Walsh
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