A Lean or Kaizen Event, also referred to as a Kaizen Workshop, Kaizen Blitz, Breakthrough Kaizen, or Rapid Improvement Event, is a powerful tool for accelerating improvement. It’s a structured team activity designed to remove waste and implement improvements in [...]
Changeover means a certain kind of set-up that we must make before beginning a different set of operations. Often, a changeover’s set-up procedure involves rearranging things. Changeover can be changing of dies & tools, Change of standard parameters, change of [...]
Standard work for leaders, the engine of lean kaizen management, is the highest leverage tool in the lean kaizen management system. Leader standard work provides a structure and routine that helps leaders shift from a sole focus on results to [...]
An engineer in a car manufacturing company designs a world class car. The owner is impressed with the outcome and praised him a lot. While trying to bring out the car from the manufacturing area to the showroom, they realised [...]
Having right mindset is ket to get results from Lean Kaizen Implementation. Leaders need to have right mindset to have maximum benefits from Kaizen / Lean Implementation program. Lean thinking starts with the customer and works back from there, defining [...]
5S is foundation for implementation of Lean Manufacturing / Kaizen / TPM etc. if Gemba is full of unwanted items, dust, dirt, no improvement is possible. Also poor housekeeping leads to lot of wasteful activities such as searching, waiting, excess [...]
TPM clearly identifies roles of Top management, Operators and Maintenance Role of Top Management in TPM & Autonomous Maintenance: For Top Management pillar champions are identified to provide leadership in terms of: Setting priorities (where to start, what next?) Setting [...]
Way to reduce costs through lean manufacturing or kaizen is all about identification, reduction and elimination of 3 Mu's. The 3 Mu’s are the three main types of waste that Kaizen teams target in their improvement activities. Each of these types has [...]
Flow manufacturing is key component of Lean manufacturing and Toyota Production System. Flow manufacturing plays a vital role in throughput time reduction and elimination on non value adding activities through Kaizen. There are seven key requirements for Flow manufacturing: 1. [...]
Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) has been implemented in various industries across the world. A lot of Oil & Gas sector companies have implemented TPM and have achieved lot of benefits, however implementation of TPM does require lot of commitment and [...]
