Stability and Control

• Standardised work- everyone follows the current best method which is continually improved
• 5S – reduces waste through workplace organisation
• Visual workplace – reduces waste through visual aids
• TPM – improves equipment uptime through wide involvement in “Total Productive Maintenance”
• Quick changeover – reduces downtime through quick changeover
• Kaizen – intensive team based improvement workshops

Built In Quality

• Error proofing – improves quality through prevention of errors
• Visual control – improves quality through visual aids and controls

Just In Time

• Continuous flow – smooths flow of work through value added steps
• Pull systems – aligns the rate of production to the “pull” of the customer
• Levelling – reduces the variation in demand and output rates through the value stream

Implementation of Lean

• Value Stream Mapping – use to identify waste and plan improvements for an end to end process.

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