Lean Methods and Tools
The systematic and persistent application of individual methods and tools results in a continuous lean management of all value added processes.
- Auditing - The gauge of change
- Autonomation (Jidoka) - Intelligent automation
- Auto-unloading (Hanedashi)
- Avoiding wastage using video analysis - Analysis of working processes
- Cardboard Engineering - Creating and simulating work systems
- Chaku-Chaku Line
- Employee CIP - Deal with 'minor' problems and ideas
- Employee Qualification
- 5S - The basis for continuous improvement
- Heijunka - see production levelling
- Improvement organisation
- Jidoka - see Autonomation
- Kanban - Consumption-driven material supply
- Low Cost Intelligent Automation (LCIA)
- Milkrun - Increased supply rate at constact freight charges
- Objectives - Orientation and control
- One-piece-flow - Reducing processing times
- PDCA - Plan - Do - Check - Act
- Poka Yoke - Avoiding unintended errors
- Production levelling (Heijunka) - Constant production rhythm
- Project management
- QCD Workshop - Improvement of quality, cost and delivery service
- Quick Changeover (SMED) - Less inventory, more flexibility
- Regular communication - Efficient and effective flow of information
- Regularity and Cleanness - Basis of wastage minimised processes
- Shopfloor Management
- Standardisation - Clarity and understanding of working processes
- Supermarket
- Total Productive Management (TPM) - Self-dependent maintenance
- Visual Management - Transparent targets, measures and status