Lean enterprise: foundational principles

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Common standard work pitfalls:

• No system in place to create ownership by those who use the document
• Simply writing and hanging the document with no consistent change in behaviour to support it
• Failure to post document at the place of work
• Failure to update the document as the work changes
• Failure to plan time for training / cross-training
• Failure at making it overcomplicated

• Document the current practice and not the best practice

Stndardized work is not the same as work standards

Before you can begin with standardized work, you must clarify your work standards

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- stocks
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- spaces
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OEE: Overall Equipment Effectiveness (%)

(Availability x Performance x Quality)
(Production Time x Production output x Quality)

Why value stream mapping is an essential tool?

• Helps you to visualize more than just the single process

• Exposes waste
• Directs activities and sets priorities
• It show the linkage between the information flow and the material flow. No other tool does it.

Creating the current state map: 3 material flow

– Suppliers
• Factory Icon
• Key Raw Materials (1 or 2. Main materials)
• Pack Size

– Shipping Information
• Means of shipment
• Frequency

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