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Create a consistent, standardized 5s workflows. Assign tasks and create schedules so that
everyone knows their responsibilities.
Sustain:
Ensure 5S runs long-term. Analyze the results and hold meetings on the 5S importance.
Implement changes if needed in order to attain Quality improvement and high Efficiency.
4. How would you describe a lean system?
Lean is a systemic method for the elimination of waste within a manufacturing process.
Lean also takes into account waste created through overburden and waste created through
unevenness in work loads. Working from the perspective of the client who consumes a
product or service, "value" is any action or process that a customer would be willing to
pay for.
Lean System is to eradicate seven wastes that is noticed in Ford Mass production/
The Seven Wastes of Lean Manufacturing are;
Transport
Inventory
Motion
Waiting
Over-Processing
Overproduction
Defects
Seven Wastes
5. What is lean six sigma and how would you apply it to a quality management
system?
Lean Six Sigma is a methodology that relies on a collaborative team effort to improve
performance by systematically removing waste, combining lean manufacturing/lean
enterprise and Six Sigma to eliminate the eight kinds of waste: defects, overproduction,
waiting, non-utilized talent, transportation, inventory, motion, extra-processing. LSS is a
methodology that allows organizations to Maximize shareholder value by the fastest rate
of improvement in customer satisfaction, cost, quality, process, speed and invested
capital. It helps in improving performance, develop effective leadership, gather customer
satisfaction and gain bottom line results.
6. Define benchmarking?
A measurement of the quality of an organization's policies, products, programs,
strategies, etc., and their comparison with standard measurements, or similar
measurements of its peers.
The objectives of benchmarking are
1. To determine what and where improvements are called for
2. To analyze how other organizations achieve their high performance levels
3. To use this information to improve performance.
unit is acted upon to bring it closer to an output, and delay time, during which a unit of
work is spent waiting to take the next action.
In a nutshell Cycle Time is the total elapsed time to move a unit of work from the
beginning to the end of a physical process.
Continual Improvement: continual improvement process, also often called a continuous
improvement process (abbreviated as CIP or CI), is an ongoing effort to improve
products, services, or processes. These efforts can seek "incremental" improvement over
time or "breakthrough" improvement all at once. Delivery (customer valued) processes
are constantly evaluated and improved in the light of their efficiency, effectiveness and
flexibility.
10. Discuss automation system ideas for JIT/lean
Automation is very advantageous in many applications, but before adapting to this human
operated versions must be solved. It is found that the need of automation is decreased or
eliminated by converting to JIT/Lean. The automation idea is not so efficient to
implement in JIT/Lean. JIT/Lean and automation are compatible, but one ought to look
long and hard at the need, and companys readiness for it, before automating processes.