Lean Leadership
Team Effectiveness - this considers things such as team productivity, how to assess a team that's under performing, running effective meetings, developing team performance targets...
Lean Management – as the specifics associated with lean leadership, there are general management methods needed in any supervisory role. Here we consider leading your team, managing conflict, motivating your team, decision making and many others... more>
Lean Tools
Six Sigma – is a tool that significantly improves customer satisfaction and shareholder value by reducing variability in every aspect of your business. But it is also a goal... more>
Yamazumi - is a tool to assist work groups in effective job design, as well as highlighting opportunities for improvement through the elimination of waste..
Kaizen – the continual process of identifying and eliminating non-value added activities in as little time as possible at the lowest possible cost... more>
Kanban - this is a scheduling system and tells you what to produce, when to produce it and how much to produdce..
SMED - 'Single Minute Exchange of Dies' does not just apply to die work but any type of operation that involves tool changeovers. SMED has a major role to play in achieving the lead-time reduction aspirations of JIT...
..and many others including cause & effect diagrams, total preventive maintenance and more>
Lean Training
Essentially this whole site is about training and educating you and your team in lean leadership and best management practices. However, we will actually provide the manuals and materials for an experienced trainer to train your own in-house team. It’s about taking ownership of your team or organisations development and truly becoming a lean leader. In support of the presentations and templates contained within the other sections of Leandeployment, this is where you’ll find the information to educate you and your team about what it all means... more>
Balanced Scorecard and Hoshin Kanri - this explains the differences between these two approaches, particularly Hoshin with its 'catchball' methodology.
Cost Control - shows ways to cut your business expenditure easily and effectively, building up a project cost budget to ensure it is managed efficiently.
Total Value Management (TVM) – usually applicable to the larger, complex products, this takes you through the steps needed to fully evaluate the costs of your product or system and identify potential cost savings compared to your competitors... more>
Lean Processes
Process Mapping – a visual representation of the actual sequence of events that any product but primarily service follows. Business processes are more suited to process mapping and used to capture reality and how things really are….then you have the chance to change that reality... more>
SIPOC - standing for Suppliers-Inputs-Process-Outputs-Customers, this showws you how to create a high level process mapwith a few key details about each of the key contributing elements.
Value Stream Mapping (VSM) – is a complete descriptive analysis of process flows and a detailed breakdown of value towards the final product giving a blueprint for improvements. It helps you to see and understand the flow of material and information as a product makes its way through the value stream, capture a products path to establish its ‘current state’ and then question how you can improve it to develop its ‘future state’... more>
Lean Quality
Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) – processes by which quality is designed into the product using a structured method for defining and executing the actions necessary to ensure the product satisfies the customer... more>
8 Disciplines (8D) – problem solving methodology for product and process correction & improvement that is structured into eight disciplines (D1-D8), plus one preparation step (D0)... more>
Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) – method of risk assessment for identifying and preventing product and process problems BEFORE they occur. Can be applied at the design stage (DFMEA) or production planning stage (PFMEA)... more>
Statistical Process Control (SPC) – used for improving and controlling capability by statistical analysis and monitoring of quality inputs... more>
Reliability – we consider this in the context of failure mode avoidance with two types of failure modes i) hard failures modes when something breaks ii) soft failure modes when something degrades... more>
Quality Function Deployment - QFD provides a systematic approach to identify which requirements are a priority for whom, when to implement them and why ... more>
..and many others including cause & effect diagrams, poka-yoke, total productive maintenance and more>
Lean Facilities
5S – standing for ‘Sort, Set, Shine, Standardise and Sustain’, this is a process consisting of a series of steps to further eradicate wastes within your operations... more>
Visual Factory – works in conjunction with 5S, it's a tool which allows quick communication of information about a process, facility or an equipments operating conditions and environment, through the use of visual aids... more>
Waste Walks – this is the physical review of an area, facility or process to identify the wastes of safety, quality, cost etc... more>
7 + 1 Wastes – understand what all these wastes are. Once clearly identified you will then be in a position to eradicate these wastes and reduce your costs significantly... more>