Six important steps in the Lean Manufacturing

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Over 15 years of experience in electronics and micro-electronics manufacturing processes. Practical knowledge in production discipline, SPC, TPS, JIT, 5S and lean manufacturing.

Más de 15 años de experiencia en el área de manufactura de productos de la industria electrónica y micro-electrónica. Conocimiento práctico en la disciplina de producción, control estadístico, sistemas de producción, 5S-orden y limpieza, y Manufactura esbelta.

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Six important steps can be defined in the Lean Manufacturing Process.

IMPROVE. Continuous improvement (Kaizen) through incremental improvement. Kaizen compliments other Lean Manufacturing tools
IMPLEMENT TOOLS. Increase value and eliminate waste with one or more of the following tools.

a.    5S
b.    Visual management
c.    Set up reduction (SMED)
d.    Cellular manufacturing
e.    poka yoke
f.    Standarized work
g.    work balancing
h.    TPM
i.    kanban

LET CUSTOMERS PULL. Actual customer demand drives the manufacturing process as much as possible. Nothing is produced by the upstream supplier until the downstream customer signals a need. The rate of production of each product is equal to the rate of the customer consumption.
IMPLEMENT FLOW. Continuous flow is the linking of manual and machine operations into the most efficient combinations to maximize value-added content, while minimizing waste. The ideal is one piece flow: make one part, move one part (in contrast to batch and queue material handling).
MAP THE VALUE STREAM. Value Stream Mapping is a method to describe the flow of material and information through the production system. The visual representation allows to see where costs can be reduced and improvements can be made.
UNDERSTAND CUSTOMER VALUE. The value of a product is defined solely by the customer. Anything that is not adding values is defined as waste.

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