LEAN
CONTINUAL IMPROVEMENT
What is LEAN?
LEAN is a frequently used term for businesses across the globe. This concept is summarised as “delivering better quality goods or services while requiring less resources.”
Why do you need it?
To stay competitive, organisations must deliver quality products at reduced prices. To ensure customer satisfaction, your business must focus on quality. Therefore, it is an organisation’s duty to find a perfect balance between good quality and low prices.
By implementing LEAN, your organisation will require less resources to produce products, which will in turn decrease product prices. This is achieved while ensuring product quality is still prioritised to keep your customers satisfied.
How do you implement it?
- To initiate the LEAN process, we identify and eliminate unnecessary waste with a value stream analysis to recognise any wasteful activities.
- Reducing unnecessary inventory that might take up space. The cost of storing excess stock usually outweighs the benefits of having extra stock on hand.
- Shortening production cycles using the technology at your disposal to make production batches smaller.
- Speeding up your response times by making your production cycle more flexible to changes on demand.
- Ensuring quality checks at various checkpoints to detect issues as quickly as possible.
- Providing training for employees to allow them more authority to make decisions.
- Obtaining customer feedback to redesign the system according to their needs and requirements.
- Reaching out to suppliers to adopt the LEAN manufacturing process.
How can WWISE assist you?
WWISE can assist in implementing this 8-step process to specifically cater to the needs of your organisation. We will be your guide to ensure that your organisation can implement and maintain LEAN to remain competitive within your market.
What are the benefits?
- Improved productivity.
- Lead time reduction.
- Increasing the efficiency of your current business processes.
- Waste reduction.
- Improved process management.