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The 8th Waste – Lean and You
Let your organization be a follower of lean manufacturing or not, what is the most important resource you have in your organization. Is it the market value, machinery, brand name? Yes all these can be very important for your organization. But how imp...
Lean Manufacturing in AC vents manufacturing - Part 1
As promised in lean for our organization contest, I am publishing one of the good quality articles sent by one of our readers in a series of two articles. You will be able to incorporate these learning in your lean manufacturing efforts. Thanks for S...
Lean concepts for energy industry
I always believed that lean manufacturing concepts can be applied in the energy sector to make it much more efficient. Today we have the best time to be lean on energy with the higher price of oil and electricity. We as the entire world need to be lo...
Lean manufacturing and human resource
In the heart of lean manufacturing is the human resource. It is the most important of all the resources available for any lean organization. This is the only resource which can think and feel and importantly can make decisions consciously. No matter ...
Lean manufacturing and defects
Lean manufacturing is about eliminating non value added activities from the system. Defects are one of the most important waste categories identified in lean. Every defective product or a poor quality service costs the organization more than we think...
Lean and excess motion
Excess motion is a waste associated mainly with the manufacturing sector. Lean manufacturing identifies excess motion as non value adding. Therefore this is categorized as a major waste in lean context.Transporting goods and raw material is a waste a...
Lean manufacturing, Inventory and Work In Progress (WIP)
When we talk about lean manufacturing we talk about inventory and work in progress all the times. Lean and inventory are that close and therefore can not be separated. Lean manufacturing identifies inventory and WIP as the mirror of the imperfection ...
Lean manufacturing and inappropriate tooling (or inappropriate processing)
This is the fifth post on lean manufacturing and its categorization of wastes. Today we focus on inappropriate tooling or processing. It is a simple but very important waste to identify.In manufacturing context inappropriate tooling means using impro...
Transportation – A waste of non lean manufacturing
This is the fourth post on wastes identified in lean manufacturing. In this post we discuss about transportation. Lean identifies transportation as one of the wastes in manufacturing context. But we can identify similar wastes in offices, service pro...
Lean and waiting
Waiting is one of the important wastes identified in lean manufacturing. What is actually waiting in the context of lean? If the customer has to wait to receive what they want it is known as waiting in the context of lean. The customer can be interna...
Over production – Waste of non lean manufacturing
I published my last post on wastes in lean manufacturing. I listed the waste categories identified in lean. I am going to discuss the first waste of lean, overproduction in manufacturing, office, software development and service contexts.In simple te...
Wastes of lean in manufacturing, office, software and services
Lean manufacturing identifies wastes different to a conventional organization. Lean defines value of a product from the customer’s point of view. So any process, activity or addition is a waste if it does not add value to the final product or the s...
