Having completed one or more Waste Reduction schemes and started a number of Continuous Improvement teams, many clients find common themes emerging from across similar operations.
Lean Manufacturing is a set of techniques that will address these issues to consistently apply learning across the whole operation, rather than provide piecemeal solutions to the same problems again and again.
For example, change-overs and set-ups are often the two most significant causes of down-time. Tools such as SMED and Set-Up Reduction can tackle these. Other techniques we have used with clients are:
- Cellular Manufacturing
- Kaizen
- 5S/CANDO
- Overall Equipment Effectiveness
- Total Productive Maintenance
This step is challenging and not without pitfalls, if applied indiscriminately. You must be clear about why you would follow this route, and the outputs of the previous steps are integral to this analysis. |
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Oakdene Hollins is delighted to work with companies to audit, value and realise the Waste Reduction potential, particularly to establish a culture for further improvement steps. email us
 Lean manufacturing brochure in pdf format
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