| The Third
Step - Lean manufacturing Techniques |
| 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. |
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| 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. |
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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:
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Cellular Manufacturing
• Kaizen
• 5S/CANDO
• Overall Equipment Effectiveness
• Total Productive Maintenance |
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| 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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