Resources – Lean Manufacturing

Recommended links

Lean Manufacturing

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Kotter's 8 steps to change

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John Kotter’s plan to implement change, I’ve used some steps by themselves to great effect.

7 Quality Tools

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Some would argue they are out of date, but they are a useful start for any engineer when conducting Route Cause Analysis.

Paul Akers

Paul’s site.

Paul is fantastic at promoting small daily increments to change, please check him out.

Guide to effective problem solving

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I’m not suggesting to buy the book, however the site offers a presentation and video to watch, so you can start practicing.

Theory of Constraints

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Again another popular book “the Goal” gives us the method of looking for and breaking constraints within manufacturing systems.

Visual Management Floor marking

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The start of the Visual management and 5S concepts of putting things in order. I have found that applying simple lines on the floor sub-consciously affects operators to natural work within them.
I encourage you try this out and see the quick win it can provide.

5 Pillars for Lean Manufacturing

  1. 5S
  2. TPM
  3. Visual management
  4. 7 Quality Tools
  5. Standard work

Creating a Lean environment

  1. Understand the product value
    1. Knowing the Value added steps
  2. VSM (Value Stream map)
  3. Create Flow
    1. 5S
    2. Visual Management
    3. Standard Work
    4. TPM
  4. Create Pull
    1. Kanban/Conwip
  5. Perfect
    1. 7 Quality tools