Lean Manufacturing

Removing hazards.

Improving communication by sharing information openly throughout the company.

Creating compliance with all Work standards, reporting deviations, and responding quickly toproblems.

3. improve the overall efficiency of your workplace and equipment, enabling your organization to meet costumer expectation.

4. lower your total costs.

Why use it?

crating anorganized, efficient, cleaner workplace that has clear work processes and standars helps your company lower its costs. Also, employees job satisfaction improves when their works environment makes it easierfor them to get the job done right.

What areas should I focus on?
you can efficiently gain control over your company´s manufacturing or business processes by focusing on the following areas:Value-added activities. these area activities that change the form or function of your product or service.

information sharing. this is the distribution of the right information to the right people atthe right time, in the most useful form possible.
source inspection. the goal of these inspections is to discover the source of error that cause defects in either your products or businessprocesses.

Material quantities and flow. all work operations should result in the correct quantities of materials or process steps moving as requires for downstream operations.

Health and safety. Allwork processes, factilities, and equipment desing and procedures should contribute to the maintenance of a safe and healthy workplace.

It is most effective to focus on the areas listed above as theyrelate to six axpects of your productions or business processes:

1. The quality of incoming, in-process, and outgoing materials.
Getting started

Before you begin to implement visual managementtechniques, make sure you do the following.

elect an employee from each work team to lead thge program and remove any barriers his or her them encounter along the way.

Train all involved...