Why Most Lean
Manufacturing Initiatives Fail to
Meet Expectations
A primary reason is lack of
effective training. It's not an
"add water and stir"
business process. You can't just decide one day to become best-in-class and think it will happen overnight. You need to determine what constraints are impeding your ability to increase speed, improve quality, and eliminate non-value-added activities. And, then you need to develop and implement
lean manufacturing techniques and practices for identifying and eliminating their root causes.
The Best-in-Class, Lean Manufacturing,
Team Training Program
Part I: "Showtime!" Bill Gaw's Lean Manufacturing Simulation Game:
What I hear... I forget,
What I see... I remember,
What I do ... I understand
The first challenge of a training
program is how to rally company-wide support, commitment and participation.
To achieve that, a company's training program must first
and foremost communicate the reason for the change, the participation
required, and the need for company-wide commitment.
Simulation exercises demonstrating the "before and after" are an excellent
solution to this challenge.
The lean manufacturing simulation
game adds pizzazz and effectiveness to a company's training program. It
communicates the need, gains company-wide commitment and relevant support of their lean manufacturing
transformation.
Your Lean Manufacturing simulation game is
initiated by hands-on
participationby team members that will setup MRP
(Push) and
LEAN (Pull) production factory simulations for the purpose of demonstrating
and comparing the effectiveness of two production
methods.
Detailed instructions describe how each exercise is to be set up and carried out. Also instructions on what
non-participants should be watching and recording for an after game "Forum."
We have been using Bill Gaw's ShowTime!
Manufacturing Simulation Game
for well over five years and have used it to introduce over 40
team members to Lean Manufacturing concepts. It allows the trainees
to experience the difference between the MRP "push" system vs. the
Lean "pull" system. Classroom training has its' place, but this
simulation really hammers home the difference between the two
different scenarios. Experiencing the difference is much more
powerful than simply learning about it.
Bill has also been very responsive when we
have had questions or needed additional supplies or insight. I would
,without reservation, recommend Showtime! to anyone searching for a
simulation to demonstrate the benefits of Lean Manufacturing.
Tom Doyle,
Quality Assurance and
Manufacturing Engineering
National Optronics
tdoyle@nationaloptronic.com
Part II:
Bill Gaw's e-Library: "10-Basics
of Best-in-Class, Lean
Manufacturing."
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 Best-in-Class Lean
Manufacturing.
*
10-Basics
for optimizing and sustaining growth and profits *
10-Basics for increasing speed
while improving
quality *
10-Basics for improving customer responsiveness *
10-Basics for
eliminating
non-value-added
costs *
10-Basics for transforming a vision into reality *
10-Basics for exceeding goals and expectations *
10-Basics for creating a fun working environment *
10-BPs for individual growth and earnings *
10-Basics for creating a winning culture.
The e-Library is a grouping of 10 PDF e-Tutorials that are
delivered via Internet download and can be installed on all Internet
devices and a company's Intranet. You'll also be able to print hard
copies and create an effective reference binder for your company
trainer. (Training package also includes a "Train-the-Trainer" Manual
and a "How to Overcome
Objections and Road-blocks" presentation.)
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.
e-Tutorial
No. 2:
Sales & Operations Planning
-
Bringing sanity to shop
floor and supplier scheduling requires continuously improving
the integration of sales forecasts, master
schedules and day-to-day
schedules.
Companies
will never achieve their lean manufacturing expectations as
long as business leaders continue to talk about value-added supplier
partnerships, while continuing to deal with their suppliers as
adversaries.
e-Tutorial No. 4: Information
Integrity
-
MRPII/ERP expectations will not be achieved when day-to-day
production and manufacturing/supply chain control systems are
driven by inaccurate, untimely and uncontrolled data and/or
documentation.
e-Tutorial
No. 5: Value
Stream Mapping -
Analysis of the processes which the 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
Management -
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
-
Financial numbers may tell us who's winning the war, but it takes a motivational balanced scorecard 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
-
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 Production -
Effective shop floor control has proven elusive as we have upgraded
our manufacturing control system from MRP to MRPII and then
to ERP. To capture control of shop floor activities, we need to
stop beating a “dead horse” and implement the Sequential
Production Process. The winners are!
e-Tutorial
No. 10: Production Linearity -
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 pursue and achieve linear
production.
Our PDF e-Tutorials include powerful
charts and graphics, "plus" relevant commentary and "lessons learned"
by Bill Gaw, a been there, done that professional. A value added, learning experience on "how to"
plan, implement and optimize a lean manufacturing transformation.
Our customers study the e-Tutorial content, print relevant sections, and highlight passages that are important
for understanding and executing change initiatives. The resultant blueprint is used for
empowering
their teams to achievements beyond expectations.
One of the keys to
success is having a great
coach. Whether you're in the
trenches or working your way up the
corporate ladder, the
experience of someone who's
"been there, done that" can
be invaluable. Throughout
his knowledge transfer Bill Gaw
provides expert know-how,
support, empathy, respect
and most important, the
wisdom of
experience.
Our Customers
For more than 15 years, our 1900 plus customers and
15,000 plus newsletter subscribers have looked to Business Basics as
a trusted developer of training materials and management development
programs that are helping individuals and companies
reach their full growth and earning potentials
Our customer list speaks for itself.
These companies are serious, as we know you are, about optimizing
company results and improving their bottom line. To review a
partial list of customers:
Best-in-Class,
Lean Manufacturing Training
and Professional Development.
It's
the "how to" that really counts!
"Bill
Gaw's training is focused on the "how to." Unlike
other training materials that tell you only what you need to do... Bill's
tutorials presents what you need to do and then
using PowerPoint graphs and charts, dialog and lessons
learned he shows you
how to do it."
T.J. Imholte,
VP Integrated Systems Advance Storage Products
"Bill is one of the most prolific individuals
in the consulting industry and profession. He is a true thought leader and a
great coach -- one of the best. His advice is golden and he has the respect
of his colleagues worldwide. We all religiously read his articles and newsletters because they are informative, educational and right on the
mark."
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resources he provides are first rate and of great practical
value for both the experienced manager wishing to push
improvement in their business as well as people at the
beginning of their careers who need to understand the basics
of making businesses lean and effective”
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The Best-in-Class, Lean Manufacturing,
Team Training Program
What Does It Cost?
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Lean Manufacturing, Do-it-Yourself, Team Training Program
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it includes all the below training materials:
1.
Lean Manufacturing
Simulation Game
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e-Library: 10-Best Practices of Lean Manu- facturing-Operations Excellence
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So as the old commercial said it:
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Push vs. Pull Video:
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This is the famous
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Push vs. Pull systems,
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Bonus No. 4: How to Overcome
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A PowerPoint-Plus
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the
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