Chapter 1 Introduction To Lean Manufacturing
Chapter 1 Introduction To Lean Manufacturing
Chapter 1 Introduction To Lean Manufacturing
Must be eliminated!
Types of Waste
Transportation
Unnecessary movement of parts, people, information between
processes.
Inventory
Components, raw materials, WIP & finished products not being
used.
Types of Waste
Movement/Motion
Unnecessary movement of parts or people within a process.
Waiting
Waiting for the next process.
People or parts sitting idle during production.
Types of Waste
Over-processing
Additional processing due to poor tools or product design.
Processing beyond the demand from customers.
Searching, handling, multi-tasking.
Over-production
Producing ahead of demand.
Producing too much, too early &/or too fast.
Types of Waste
Defects
Mistakes & errors that need to be reworked.
Cost & effort involved in quality inspection & fixing defects
(reworks).
Sorting, repetition or making scrap.
T I M W O O D
Skill
Not using full potential & ability of workers.
Unused creativity & underutilized human capital
(intelligence & intellect).
What is
Lean Manufacturing
Quotes for Lean Manufacturing
“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that
which should not be done at all.”
–Peter F. Drucker
▪ Jim Womack and Dan Jones in his book “The Machine that Change the World”
has identified a set of principles and techniques that made Japanese
carmakers far more productive than their Western competitors.
Due to the TPS has been widely spread to any other companies
throughout the world, beyond its original industry; then the term LM is
preferable.
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