Lean Manufacturing Implementation
LEAN MANUFACTURING CONCEPTS
Lean manufacturing is also known as Lean enterprise or Lean production, Lean is a production and manufacturing practice that focuses on increasing customer value by reducing cost and production time by reducing or even eliminating waste and loss, Lean Manufacturing principles came from the philosophy of management in Japanese manufacturing, particularly from toyota’s production system (TPS).
Lean focuses on the disposal of seven types of waste:
Transportation
Inventory
Unnecessary and unproductive movement of “equipment and personnel”
Waiting times
Over–production
Unnecessary processing steps
Defect / Rework
Lean manufacturing implementation roadmap
Sama Kingdom experts can help clients to implement lean manufacturing principles, Drawing value stream mapping for several specific improvements, All of them were built on a strong model of personal development and change management to ensure the highest probability of success for sustainable change.
Benefits of Lean Production & Manufacturing
Lean Manufacturing consultancy includes a value stream mapping study, and evaluation the type of wastes and poor productivity efficiency (muda, Mura & Muri, subsequent optimization and 5S consulting).
Lean Manufacturing is a method and methodology for improvement, Focus on reducing the non-value added activities and processes and waste in production processes, Lean practitioners believe that if non-value-added activities are not reviewed in a process, 95% of the activities of this process will be of no-value added, In order to the enterprise might be able to survive and be able to improve profits, They have to look carefully at their operations and work to reduce non-value-added activities, And losses in its operational, manufacturing and logistics operations.
If the organization does not take a serious look at non-value added activities and waste in its operations, This may add new burdens to the business in increasing the costs and financial burdens on the company, The company might lost its ability to keep up with changes in the international markets and against competitors and increase the cost of the product and the price of its sale and the decrease of the company’s competitiveness, This may be a major reason for the business to exit the competition or the market as a whole.