Lean
Manufacturing
Why use lean
manufacturing? Simply, lean manufacturing is a great competitive
weapon that reduces your costs, improves quality and improves your bottom
line. If you are competing against off shore competition, you need lean
manufacturing!
Lean production
is aimed at the elimination of waste in every area of production including
customer relations, product design, supplier networks and factory management.
Its goal is to incorporate less human effort, less inventory, less time
to develop products, and less space to become highly responsive to customer
demand while producing top quality products in the most efficient and
economical manner possible.
Lean excellence
is a coordinated response to today's highly competitive environment.
Its roots lie in manufacturing and are strongly influenced by the production
system principles originally developed at Toyota.
What kind of results
should you expect from a lean manufacturing implementation?
- Defects reduced
by 20%.
- Delivery Lead
Times reduced by more than 75%
- On Time Delivery
improved to 99+%
- Productivity
(sales per employee) increases of 15-35% per year
- Inventory (Working
capital) reductions of more than 75%
- Return on Assets
improvement of 100+%
What is involved
in implementing lean manufacturing? First, and most important, top management
commitment. This must be a key company objective. It takes a lot of
hard work and doesn't happen overnight. It involves a real cultural
change in the organization.
Lean makes use of
many tools and techniques. Every operation is different and no two companies
put these improvements in place the same way and use the same tools
and techniques the same way. Discrete manufacturers, process manufacturing
and job shops can all benefit greatly. Read about the tools and techniques
and then call Doug Williams and Associates for an analysis on how we
can help your business.
| Lean
is about doing more with less: |
| Less
time, inventory, space, people, & money. |
| Lean
is about speed and getting it right the first time. |
| Lean
is about eliminating waste. |
Doug
Williams And Associates can help you with Lean Manufacturing or other
small business issues, please call us at (360) 695-8100 or email us
at info@dwassoc.com.
Lean
Manufacturing And Other DWA Services
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