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1.3 You supply products to? : OEMs Tier I companies Tier II companies
1.4 How would you categorize the product mix of the company in terms of Volume-Variety?
High Volume-More Variety High Volume-Less Variety
Low Volume-High Variety Low Volume-Low Variety
1.6 Do you agree that implementing Lean manufacturing techniques has organizational benefits?
Yes No
1.8 What is the growth percentage of the company compared to last year?
0-5% 6-10% 11-15% > 15% < 0% (negative)
Section 2: How do you rate the following external factors are important that it is necessary to
practice Lean techniques?
Important
Important
Important
Important
Extremely
Very
Not
External Factors
Strongly Agree
Disagree
Disagree
Strongly
Neutral
Agree
Product Characteristics
Strongly Agree
Disagree
Disagree
Strongly
Neutral
Agree
Implementation Challenges
Section 5: How do you rate the Production & Inventory Management practices in your company?
(Pl. in the box)
Strongly Agree
Disagree
Disagree
Strongly
Neutral
Strongly Agree
Disagree
Disagree
Strongly
Neutral
Agree
Total Quality Management
Section 7: How do you rate the extent of Total Organizational Buy-in, TOB practices in your
company? (Pl. in the box)
Strongly Agree
Disagree
Disagree
Strongly
Neutral
Agree
Total Organizational Buy-in
targets
Best performer announcements are made regularly
Sign Boards are very effective and displayed at appropriate positions
Department problems are solved as a team exercise
Employees are rewarded whenever an improvement is made
At least 25 % of employees suggestions are implemented
There is lack of financial support for effective implementation of lean
Most of the suggestions will come from managers rather than
operators
Most of the employees are not ready to change to a new method
Safety is a major problem in the departments
Employees are ready to stay back and work whenever need arises
Atleast 60% of the employees have attended training programmes
Section 8: How do you rate the extent of the following techniques implemented in the company?
(Pl. in the box)
NI Not Implemented, 1 Just started implementing, 2 Implemented but very less,
3 Implemented partially, 4 Implemented well, 5 Achieved Full implementation
Techniques Implemented NI 1 2 3 4 5
5S
QC Circles
Poke Yoke
Kaizen
Just-in-time
Line Balancing
Set-up Time Reduction
Group Technology
Visual Controls
Value Stream Mapping
Cellular Layout
Takt Time
Single Piece flow
Quick Change-overs
Total Productive Maintenance, TPM
Jidoka (Autonomation)
Standard Operating Procedure, SOP
Machine reliability
Section 9: How do you rate the benefits achieved by the company in the past two years?
(Pl. in the box)
Strongly Agree
Disagree
Disagree
Strongly
Neutral
Agree
Competitive Advantage
No. of orders
New Customers
Production Cost
Market Share
No. of Products
Sales Turnover
No. of Employees
Export Orders (if applicable)
Asset Value
Sales Return
Cost Control