Companies implementing 5S experience many benefits from implementing the five pillars of 5S, such as increasing product diversity, raising quality, lowering costs, encouraging reliable deliveries, promoting safety, building customer confidence, and promoting corporate growth. Following are key benefits achieved from [...]
TPM means productive maintenance (activities in which all workers of a corporation are required to participate) and stands for total productive maintenance. T stands for "Total" P stands for "Productive" M stands for "Maintenance" Necessity of TPM and why TPM [...]
The concept of a Cellular Manufacturing applies to processes involving machines as well as to manual assembly, with improvement opportunities of the same magnitude but different challenges. Cellular Manufacturing is a set of collocated, physically linked machines performing a common sequence [...]
TPM is about maximising the overall effectiveness of equipment through the people who operate and maintain that equipment. In order to provide the essential link between equipment and people it is essential to identify a clear set of phases and [...]
Managing change is most difficult process in any organisation and requires support of external forces and systematic Implementation of steps of change management. Many of improvement initiatives fail because of lack of following steps of change management. Generally people are [...]
Corrective & Preventive actions are two most common actions identified as a part of doing a Good Why Why Analysis of 5 why analysis, which is done as part of Root Cause Analysis. Many users & trainers on Root cause [...]
Lean Manufacturing has become very popular in India & some countries in East Africa. however implementing Lean in right way requires deep understanding of concept and philosophy behind Lean. Most of the consultants and organisation go by the Tool Implementation [...]
Objective of Planned Maintenance pillar in TPM is to enhance natural life of the equipment by focuses on two key category of activities: Maintenance Activities to fix and prevent failures Improvement Activities To extend life span of part, To [...]
Kobetsu Kaizen (Focused Improvement) is first Pillar of Total Productive Maintenance is used to address non equipment related losses and losses which can not be addressed by other pillars. Kobetsu Kaizen means Focused Improvement and uses the approach of Root [...]
Value stream mapping also known as Material & Information flow mapping in Toyota Motors, is more than a tool to draw pictures that highlight waste. It helps us see linked chains of processes and create Future state of a Lean [...]
