Professional Documents
Culture Documents
• Defects
• Overproduction
• Waiting
• Not utilizing peoples KSA’s
• Transportation
• Inventory
• Motion
• Excess Processing
• Lean is doing more
with less
1. Less Time
2. Less Space
3. Less Human Effort
4. Less Machinery
5. Less Materials
6. Less Money
Goals of Lean Six Sigma
• Reduce Waste
• TPS
• 8 Wastes
• Drive Out Variation
• Motorola
• 3.4 Defects per
million opportunities
• 99.9% Defect Free
Six Sigma = 99.9% success
Isn’t that good enough?
• 4,000+ families would leave
with the hospital with the
wrong baby each year.
• 75,000 patients would get
surgery performed on the
wrong part of their body in
2012.
• 126,000 manufactured cars
would be missing seat belt bolts
every year.
• There would be no plumbing in
your home for 1 month per
year.
Another way to look at
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If you putt at a level of:
What is Value?
• Any activity or activities that the
customer is willing to pay for.
• Activities that change the
products’ form, function or market
value.
What is Waste?
• Everything else.
• Wastes consume resources without
adding any value.
• Wastes cost money.
1. Move the part!! Make your numbers!!
2. Make as much as you can, go as fast as you can.
3. Make bigger batches, the machine is more efficient.
4. Do what I say, I am the boss.
5. We have some standards, they are in the system, not sure
if they are followed, but we have them.
6. Engineers and managers create standards, we just do
what we are told.
7. Don’t get caught holding the bag.
8. Only grunts go to the shop floor.
9. GO-GO-GO
1. Stop production, fix the root problem.
2. We make only what the customer ordered.
3. Make things one at a time (or in Kanbans) and move them
through the system quickly.
4. Instead of Thou Shalt, what do you think?
5. We have simple, visual standards for all important things.
6. The people closest to the work help to create the
standards with engineers and managers.
7. Make problems visible.
8. Go out and see for yourself.
9. Plan-Do-Check-Adjust
• Provide the highest
quality, at the lowest
cost, in the shortest
time by continually
eliminating wastes in:
• Productivity
• Delivery
• Quality
• Cost
• Safety
• Morale
1. Actual Work
• Motion that adds Value
2. Auxiliary Work
• Motion that supports Actual
Work
• Loading the Machine
• Getting a part out of a supplier
box
3. Muda
• Motion that creates no Value
• Quick Test
• If you stopped doing that,
would it adversely effect the
product??
3 Categories of Waste
3 Categories of Waste
Mura
Unevenness &
fluctuation of work
Muri
Hard To’s
Muda
• Process wastes that the
customer is not willing to
pay for
Mura
Translation: Unevenness
• Wastes caused by
unbalanced
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workloads,
unplanned
maintenance, long
set up times,
upstream quality
problems, unleveled
scheduling.
• Occurs when the
customer has to
wait; for anything
• For materials to be
delivered
• Line stoppages
• Changeovers to be
complete
• Signatures
• Approvals
• Information
• The waste of not
utilizing people’s;
• Mental, Creative, &
Physical abilities
• What’s the cause?
• Old guard thinking
• Low or no investment in
training
• No employee involvement
Not Utilizing People’s KSA’s
• Examples?
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Transportation
• Waste
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• Inventory
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customers perspective,
caused by lack of
communication, over
processing and no
defined standards.
•What are
some
examples?
Lean Accounting 101
What are some easy ways
to cut cost?
Lay off as many people as
possible.
Drastically reduce
maintenance and its budget
These items show an
immediate reduction to the
bottom line.
What are some problems
with these decisions?
They are not sustainable
Lean Accounting 101
How do companies set their
prices?
The Conventional Cost
Model
Cost + Profit Margin = Price
What do we have to do in
order to increase our
profits? Problem???
Customers have more
choices
Lean Accounting 101
Price – Cost = Profit