You have to know where your company and you are in terms of cultural level related to Lean.
Bases to start with a lean Manufacturing program is to take into account the respect for the people and develop them to continuously improve. It requires a level of patience and a long term view, a focus on process and the ability to understand where the individual is in his or her development.
The foundation off the lean system is a long term philosophy that focuses on adding value to customers and society . Eliminating waste is done by people using rigorous program solving methods.
I am talking about the culture that guides our business every day and is owned by the operations people throughout our organization.
If you want to know where your company is, then apply a CI Lean Gap Assessment, this tool is going to let you prioritize the actions needed and will let you to develop an action plan to track your advances.
Bases to start with a lean Manufacturing program is to take into account the respect for the people and develop them to continuously improve. It requires a level of patience and a long term view, a focus on process and the ability to understand where the individual is in his or her development.
The foundation off the lean system is a long term philosophy that focuses on adding value to customers and society . Eliminating waste is done by people using rigorous program solving methods.
I am talking about the culture that guides our business every day and is owned by the operations people throughout our organization.
If you want to know where your company is, then apply a CI Lean Gap Assessment, this tool is going to let you prioritize the actions needed and will let you to develop an action plan to track your advances.
A good way to start your system is defining Enablers, some examples of Enablers are:
- Inform your colaborators following the TOP - BOTTOM strategy about the implementation, you are not going to gain engaged people if they don´t know what is the next step
- Create a Lean Performance office, tray to have a Sensei that helps you through the implementation process
- Define a responsible for the Lean implementation with expertise in the Lean process implementation
- Define a Dashboard with the main metrics in your plant
- Develop a VSM - current state and future state - for every product or product family
- Start with 5S which is a prerequisite to apply lean tools
- Start with standard work as s prerequisite for the continuos improvement
- Define an Obeya room
- Implement huddles in at least tree levels into your organization
- Create a tool to establish and deploy the organizational goals (for example an X matrix)
- Use the A3 format as an institutional tool to define and track projects at all levels into your organization
- Use kaizen events to show people how to gain dramatic improvements in a short term
These are just some examples of enablers and are not a recipe, the number and order of enablers depends on the result of your CI lean Gap assessement. Later I am going to show you what are the Enablers that we have followed the last tree years in OCV Reinforcement Tlaxcala Plant.
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