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Mastering the 10-Basics of
LEAN Manufacturing
as presented via Bill Gaw's e-Tutorial Library
Many historic, recurring day-to-day problems (perhaps
the same problems that plague your operation)
can be permanently eliminated by a tenacious execution of Bill's
10-Basics of EAN Manufacturing.
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10-Basics
for individual and team empowerment
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10-Basics for increasing speed
while improving
quality
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10-Basics for improving customer responsiveness
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10-Basics for
eliminating
non-value-added
costsL
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10-Basics for tenacious
continuous improvement
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10-Basics for implementing
a point-of-use supply chain
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10-Basics for creating a fun working environment
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10-Basics for individual growth and earnings
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10-Basics for creating a winning
workplace culture.
I realize the
word "BASICS" is not very sexy. But it is a very
important thing to understand. Mastering LEAN manufacturing basics of what has worked in the past establishes
the foundation
needed to successfully implement and optimize the change initiatives of
today and tomorrow.
The
Bill Gaw's LEAN
Manufacturing e-Tutorial Library
(You'll receive both .pdf and .ppt versions)
The Library contains 10-e-Tutorials covering the 10
basics of LEAN Manufacturing with a total
of 357 charts and graphs with relevant narratives plus "lessons
learned" from a LEAN manufacturing "been there, done
that" back-to-basics professional. The
Library is
delivered via Internet in both .pdf and .ppt downloads
and can be installed on all Internet
devices and a company's Intranet.
e-Tutorial No. 1: Strategic
Planning & Tactical Execution -
Strategic planning is a business process that many companies employ to identify their critical success targets that set the course for future growth and profits.
If LEAN basics are not in the plan as a strategic objective....
they will never produce to expectations.
e-Tutorial
No. 2:
Sales & Operations Planning
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Bringing sanity to
shop floor and supply
chain scheduling require continuously improving
the integration of sales forecasts, master schedules, MRP and
day-to-day scheduling.
e-Tutorial
No. 3: Point-of-Use Supply Chain Management
Companies
will never achieve their manufacturing expectations as
long as business leaders continue to talk about value-added supplier
partnerships, while continuing to deal with their suppliers as
adversaries.
Most
stockroom
are obsolete and huge non value added contributors. How and why
a point-of use supply chain is required for lean success.
e-Tutorial
No. 4: Information
Integrity
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Lean Manufacturing expectations will not be achieved when day-to-day
production and supply chain control systems are
driven by inaccurate, untimely and uncontrolled
Sales, MRP and engineering performance..
e-Tutorial
No. 5: Value
Stream Mapping
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Analysis of the processes which VS Maps
represent can help you increase customer satisfaction by identifying
actions to reduce process cycle time, decrease defects, reduce
costs, establish customer-driven process performance measures,
reduce non-value-added steps, and increase productivity are a few.
e-Tutorial
No. 6: Kaizen
(CI) Management
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Price Pritchett puts it this way," Without Kaizen,
you and your employer will gradually lose ground. Eventually, you’ll
be “out of business,” because the competition never stands still."
e-Tutorial
No. 7: Performance Management
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Financial numbers may tell us who's winning the war, but it takes a motivational balanced
performance measurement system to win all the battles along the way. Remember, without data...
management is just another opinion.
e-Tutorial
No. 8: Cycle Time Management
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If your business teams can handle only one strategic
initiative at a time, then let it be the implementation of a
cycle time reduction program. There just isn’t any other more
important program in our pursuit of profits.
e-Tutorial
No. 9: Sequential and Linear Production
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Companies will never achieve
their full growth and profit potential if they produce more than 25%
of their monthly shipment plan in the last week of the month or more
than 33% of their quarterly shipment plan in the last month of the
quarter. As companies struggle to remain competitive, one of the
strategies by which gains in speed, quality and costs can be
achieved is to implement and optimize sequential and linear
production processes.
e-Tutorial
No. 10: Empowered, Self-directed Work Team Development
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A primary reason why many LEAN transformations have not
delivered results to expectations is lack of effective training and
management development. Transformation success has come to many companies that have trained and
empowered self-directed work teams.
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