"Learn to see waste." Benefits of Implementing Lean Methodologies: • Reduces process lead time to better service customers • Greatly improves throughput and asset utilization • Opens capacity for future growth opportunities • Reduces work-in-process inventory • Reduces set-up times • Avoids unnecessary equipment expense • Increases the number of inventory turns per year • Improves cash flow • Impacts your bottom line The Machine That Changed the World is a book based on
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Assignment 1. Memorandum about NUMMI * Due Oct 7 by 11:59am Points 10 Submitting a file upload Homework 1 (worth 10% of your final grade) ENVR E-137 Due October 6th, 2014 @ 11:59 PM (in our web site’s assignment box) You have been hired by General Motors as a consultant to describe the basic operations at NUMMI, your job is to generate a briefing that will be distributed to top managers at GM. In 1200 words or less create a memorandum that contains the following information: 1
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Kaizen Project: Empty Kitchen Dishwasher Improvement Process Kaizen Project: Empty Kitchen Dishwasher Improvement Process | Improve Process (time) to Empty Dishwasher Start and end date: December 18, 2013. Problem Statement: Amount of time to empty the dishwasher needs to be reduced by 100%, to enable cook to have zero lag time between orders. Objective: Currently it takes 2min and 20 seconds to unload just the utensils from the dishwasher and placed in current storage area. A 100% improvement
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Business Brief Abstract This business brief will discuss Autoliv, a Fortune 500 company who manufactures automotive safety components (Krajewski, Ritzman, Malhotra, 2013). Autoliv has over 80 plants in more than 32 countries, all of which run on a lean manufacturing system, which is referred to as “Autoliv Production System (APS) (Krajewski, Ritzman, Malhotra, 2013). Toyota pioneered the principles that the APS is based on (Krajewski, Ritzman, Malhotra, 2013). Another A lean system allows businesses
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1. Name: Joe Smith 2. Discipline: Lean Manufacturing 3. Preliminary Research Question: Why do lean improvements fail to self-sustain in manufacturing? 4. The story is the same for many manufactures who find early success in lean initiatives; savings are well documented, employees become engaged, and then at some point entropy occurs. These initiatives stall for several reasons; first, leaders must walk the talk, they are engaged in lean process as long as the change is finically driven
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12/11/2013 5 @ L.N. Welingkar Institute of Management Bangalore Gorur Consultancy Gorur N Sridhar Quality Consultant What to expect? GC 5S – 5 C concepts 5S implementation stages Examples 2 1 12/11/2013 GC Learn What 5S is and How it Applies to Any Industry Video 3 GC 5S – 5C 4 2 12/11/2013 5S - Seiri, Seiton, Seiso, Seiketsu and Shitsuke GC 5S is a tool within the arsenal of Lean Manufacturing, it is a lean tool that helps you to organize
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Herman Bautista 9/25/2013 Discussion Question Chapter 7 Process Flow Analysis 1. Provide the definition of a bottleneck. Why is it important to find the bottleneck? A bottleneck is a phenomenon where the performance or capacity of an entire system is limited by a single or limited number of components or resources. The term bottleneck is taken from the 'assets are water' metaphor. As water is poured out of a bottle, the rate of outflow is limited by the width of the conduit of exit
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TOYOTA MOTOR COMPANY: AN IN-DEPTH STUDY OF THE SUCCESS OF THE KAIZEN PHILOSOPHY Toyota Motor Company recently claimed number one spot in global sales in the auto industry. Many practitioners of the “Toyota Way” concur that Toyota is the model company to imitate, but recent years Toyota has seen a decline in their core competence of quality control. Weaknesses to social and environmental fluctuations have had negative effects on Toyota’s continued profitability. Analysis of strategy and execution
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Kaizen Value Proposition By Vikas Dikshit August 2007 Kaizen Is A Culture, A State of Mind. Purpose of kaizen goes beyond improvements Kaizen humanizes workplace. Kaizen eliminates overly hard work. Kaizen teaches people to spot and eliminate waste. Kaizen must operate with three principles in place Process and results (not results-only) Systemic thinking (i.e. big picture, not solely the narrow view) Non-judgmental, non-blaming (because blaming is wasteful) Positive
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a state of perfection is reached in which perfect value is created with no waste. KAIZEN What is Kaizen? Kaizen is the practice of continuous improvement. Kaizen was originally introduced to the West by Masaaki Imai in his book Kaizen: The Key to Japan’s Competitive Success in 1986. Today kaizen is recognized worldwide as an important pillar of an organization’s long-term competitive strategy. Kaizen is continuous improvement that is based on certain guiding principles: * Good processes
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