Lean focuses on maximizing customer value while minimizing waste. It aims to do more with less - less effort, less inventory, less time. The five basic principles of lean are: 1) deeply understanding the customer, 2) identifying the value stream, 3) ensuring product flow through the value stream, 4) pulling requirements through the system, and 5) continual improvement. Lean eliminates waste throughout the entire value stream to create efficient processes that require fewer resources and produce higher quality products at a lower cost. This allows businesses to better respond to changing customer demands.

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Lean
 What is it?
The idea is to maximise customer value while minimising waste. Simply, lean means creating
more value for customers with fewer wastes.
Lean is more than a process or a tool that is used as a fad, it is a commitment to
continually improve. The commitment follows 5 basic principles, 1. Deeply understanding the
customer, 2. Truly identifying the Values Stream, 3. Ensuring product Flows through it’s Value
Stream 4. Pulling requirements through the system, and 5. To continually strive to do better.
Adopting the commitment to Lean means eliminating waste, waste that has historically created
barriers in the smooth supply of information or product to the customer.
 Why do we use it?
1. Lean provides away of doing more and more with less and less,
less effort, less inventory, less time; to provide the customer with
EXACTLY their requirements and to their pace.
2. It ensures an organisation can exist more efficiently and more
effectively so that it can adapt to market pressures.
3. Promotes a culture of team working, empowerment and
continuous improvement.
Flavour of the
month
Improvement.
People & Leadership
World Class
Lean Fundamentals
Heijunka
[Production Levelling]
Jidoka
[Built in Quality]
Just In Time
Driving Change & Boundary less
Lean 'Line' Leaders
Plant Leadership
Lean Competency Building
Visual Management
Supermarket
5 S
Value Stream
Sequencing
Shikumi
[Plan to Production Levelling]
Level Load
Mixed Model
Pull Production
Single Piece Flow
Standard WIP and Work
Takt time
[Beat]
Autonomation
Stop at Every Abnormality
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Scoring 1 - 5
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Lean Continuous
Improvement.
Time
Improvement
 What is the principle?
Is to eliminate waste along entire value streams, instead of at specific points,
this will create processes that need less human effort, less space, less
expenditure, and less time to make products at far less costs and with much
fewer defects. A business can then respond to changing customer desires with
high variety, high quality, low cost, and with very fast throughput times. With
information management becoming more accurate and visual.
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CreatedbyDaleGreenaway04/12/2010