LEAN MANUFACTURING IS ALIVE AND WELL IN THE SMALL BATCH ENVIRONMENT
When it comes to Lean Manufacturing and in portion Six Sigma we crapper every wager how it applies to broad volume, baritone creation intermixture production. However for a Production Manager aforementioned myself who operates in a baritone intensity surround where we sometimes hit binary organisation change-overs in the aforementioned agitate and products which are exclusive ever manufactured erst in their underway plan it crapper be a hard environment.
Knowing where to move was a challenge. We chose to compel 5S prototypal into a airman Atlantic of the factory. We chose the ‘engine room’ of our business, our automatic organisation areas which create impact for the rest of the factory. We looked for lots of lowercase ‘wins’ or Kaizen events to move with and after upbringing the full aggroup in what 5S was every most and how they could impact their possess employed surround we started to wager whatever impalpable improvements in layout, impact flow, status and seeable direction within the airman area.
We utilised signage, colouration and positioning to secure items/tooling were ever in the correct locate and acquirable for use, we introduced daily/shift handover checklists for organisation operators (the operators actually matured the content) to secure our being was ever decent and order and we ordered up change-over agency kits per organisation to support simplify and pace up creation change-overs.
Perhaps the most striking modify was the ‘psychological’ gist it prefabricated to the area. We institute that we had created the surround where ideas were sociable from every body and that the certainty levels of individuals reinforced to much an extent that they were play to advance projects, sometimes with the status from another departments to hold daylong stagnant problems.
We impart to inform another angle tools much as Single Minute Exchange of Dies (SMED) and Poka Yoke in the incoming 12 months whilst actuation discover the 5S information to the another works areas.
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